• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    1 hour ago

    No its called having morals and standing by them. Virtue signaling is when you pay lip-service to a cause and don’t walk the walk. Almost like zuck doing his dei stuff when it was popular and doing a 180 as soon as it becomes slightly unpopular.

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      I think it is quite beautiful to see how much <some politically, even if self-perceived, powerful person who is a moral trashheap> falls into the usual strong narcisism tendencies of projection.

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    “Some people may leave our platforms for virtue signaling, but I think the vast majority and many new users will find that these changes make the products better”

    Who is this “vast majority”? Oh right, hetereosexual white cis men. Got it.

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    4 hours ago

    Oh no, not virtue signaling! There truly is no greater crime! Specifically, it isn’t worse to be an overly-built, soulless chia pet if that’s what you’re thinking. Definitely not.

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    5 hours ago

    Will this decade be known as “the decade when billionares spiralled out of control”? First Musk then this android.

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      Imagine what Rockefeller and Carnegie would have tweeted about. You know they were crass, detached from reality hemorrhoid clusters, they just didn’t get to spew it to a global audience 900 times a day.

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      4 hours ago

      They saw Elons return for a 230 million investment and want even more. Hopefully they overreach and we can finally rid ourselves of the billionaires.

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    Well firstly, virtue signaling is not fundamentally a bad thing. Devil is in the details.

    Second, that’s kinda rich coming from the guy who’s been nothing but virtue signaling towards the upcoming Trump admin since his failed assassination attempt.

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    4 hours ago

    Maybe saying you’re quitting meta is “virtue signalling” but actually quitting is virtuous.

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    Wow, I knew Zuckerberg was a jerk and I knew he was right wing. But I didn’t think he was one of those rightwing immature edgelord jerks on the level of 4chan posters

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      Nah these billionaires don’t align on the modern left wing right wing spectrum, they are all a special kind of hardcore libertarian. The only ideology they have is that they should be able to do whatever they want to earn their next billion. Him appeasing right wingers fits his MO, but doesn’t make him a right winger.

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      5 hours ago

      He wasn’t. Mark used to be a sweet kid, but he’s been radicalised by all the shit he reads on Facebook. It’s not too late, Mark, delete your social media profiles, stay away from that poisonous hellhole!