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    8 hours ago

    The antitrust war was in full effect when he said that. Gates is a good guy now, but he was a ruthless pos as head of MS.

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        No one rich enough to be in Trump’s vicinity actually believes any of the glazing they do to him. They’re all executing the very basic strat for dealing with a baby man: stroke his ego -> get what you want.

        As far as interacting with other sociopaths goes, my guess is trump is refreshingly simple for them.

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        I mean, what is he supposed to do. The orange man threatened to put Zuckerberg in jail for the rest of his life if he doesn’t comply. I have not very much hope left for the upcoming testimonies regarding Steam, Twitch, Discord and Reddit.

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          If you have any power at all, complying with the blatant fascist is treason. You know what happens next. Think of all the people who have virtually no power, who can be beaten, imprisoned, deported, without consequence. Chuds like Zuckerberg and Gates pave the way for that. They have enough money and power to insulate themselves.

          Even fucking Musk parted company with the ghoul emperor. Imagine having less spine than someone who bought a social media platform so people would stop making fun of him (didn’t work, obv).

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            I don’t think musk actually parted ways with Trump. Considering the Trump administration keeps giving his companies contracts, it was just theater.

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            You are right, but I highly doubt that he cares enough considering the quote I posted earlier. He probably also has a shitload of staff around him telling him what to do, whose life also depend on him complying.

            Also, Musk bought Twitter to influence the outcome of elections, not for being a petty child that doesn’t want to be insulted online. Well, maybe, but that’s not the whole story here.

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            “We are watching him closely,” Mr Trump wrote in his new book, “and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison - as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election.”

            August 2024

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            He wrote it in a book (or his writer lol), shortly before he got elected, about a year ago. Look for “Trump Zuckerberg jail threat”, I don’t know which source to cite here.

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      Gates is a good guy now

      gates has put his money into a charity to protect his money; charities are only required to share a pittance of their wealth by law and lots of oligarchs have been putting their money into charities because of it.

      it’s troubling to read that people are actually buying the bullshit that the pr firms are putting around this activity.

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          no one is immune to propaganda and i suspect that a huge majority still thinks gates and other oligarchs have become good guy because of it.