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[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Says the guy who suddenly started hitting all the typical shithead slogans and talking point as soon as it seemed beneficial.

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[–] Muffi@programming.dev 35 points 21 hours ago

It's called being a political consumer, you dipshit

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago

As opposed to signalling that you have none.

[–] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

Some def are. Some even started using hashtags to signal, lol.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 86 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He looks more and more like a cult leader every day.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 58 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I recently commented somewhere that the more Elon Musk leans into MAGA the more he looks like a Sith lord and the affliction appears to be hitting Mark Zuckerberg too lately.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

Always two there are. The Master, and the Apprentice.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I was thinking he looks like the bad guy in Dune in that milk bath.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago

Ya! That guy.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 22 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I'll be glad to signal my foot up his ass

[–] neuroneiro@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Wait until Ouch My Balls is over

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 17 hours ago

Even if they are, they still have fucking virtues, unlike your robotic ass, Zuck.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 28 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Mark Zuckerberg the chicken fucker?

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 7 points 16 hours ago

Yes, now tell me the problem with that

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I signaled that virtue a very, very long time ago.

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 21 points 23 hours ago

I've been boycotting Facebook since before it was cool.

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

I did mine like ten years ago.

[–] LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 18 hours ago

ROFL I’m signaling the virtue of my privacy kept safe by escaping Meta and not being on a platform hosted by a deranged billionaire. 🤣

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 31 points 22 hours ago

I'm just trying to save his neutered business from my feminine energy.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 44 points 1 day ago

"vote with your wallet and you can affect a corporation!"

Also:

"Fuck you, I'm entitled to your participation (your data) or you're a virtue signaler leftist baby."

I wish I wasn't an atheist, at least I'd have some comfort in knowing pieces of shit get what they deserve. Instead they just become billionaires and live amazing lives.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's weird to realize I would wait in line for like 45 minutes up piss on Zuckerberg's grave, should the legal opportunity ever arise.

Just a thought for his next of kin to consider, in due time...

[–] RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 4 points 17 hours ago

And how much extra to take a shit on it?

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago

His AI is picking from random internet phrases to see if it unlocks a reward function.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 25 points 23 hours ago

I don't know, sounds like he's just virtue signaling to me.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (12 children)

I never understood that phrase. If you admit there is virtue to your opponents actions isn't that just certifying you are wrong regardless of the opponents intentions?

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago
[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

“Meta has us in a chokehold. They make money off our presence in order to continue to be in business and yet it’s too difficult for people to leave,” Makichen wrote.

Difficult? How? I'm pretty sure I still have an account on Facebook from it's early days, but I haven't logged in to it in more than a decade. Friends and family can reach me in other ways, like email or better yet a phone call.

[–] femtech@midwest.social 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are talking about their business. The massage place I go to is primarily thru Facebook. They have their own site but it was easier to just request a appointment.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Many businesses have dead websites now, as all the visibility is just through Facebook and Google Maps.

It’s very different than Twitter, where most business use (outside of influencers and influence campaigns) amounts to status updates that can be given elsewhere.

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 6 points 1 day ago

Stan showed how in southpark s14e04. It was very easy.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 22 points 1 day ago

Sorry Zuck, but "virtue" is not the message all those people making hand gestures at you are trying to signal.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

What Mark is really saying you will be back. if anyone is still on Facebook after all these years he is probably right. He also knows if anything that does take it out. He will just buy it up and once again those people will be back under meta's control. He has too much money. The only answer is to stop using identity based social media.

[–] RQG@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

My mom moved away from meta because of this asshat. It seems now everything is possible. She went from WhatsApp to signal and Facebook to Bluesky.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Good for her I'm glad one person got away

[–] RQG@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Me too. But I'm mostly surprised.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 18 hours ago

That's the beauty of the fediverse. It cannot be bought anymore than someone can buy "the internet".

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[–] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago

Why would anyone quit adult daycare? Unless they are in the content moderation mines in Africa getting ptsd from seeing the horrors of humanity.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder what he would say about me never having used Facebook. or any of his other "services"?

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 6 points 17 hours ago

"We have your data anyway, sucks to suck."

Just like they have mine too. Because we are the odd ones out. Almost everyone else uses that crap. We get identified in photos someone else uploaded. Fingerprinted when we get to a friend's house and auto-join their WiFi. Buy from a business that hands out metrics for "analysis." Click on shared links that weren't stripped of referrer codes. All those tiny data points that mean nothing on their own but in aggregate let data brokers know us better than we know ourselves.

I hate this fucking timeline.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Mark Zuckerberg is a dork.

[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 20 hours ago

I quit Facebook and Instagram years ago, long before it was called Meta. Fuck that goon.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

He whines, signalling his "virtues"

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

watson387 says Mark Zuckerberg can 'go fuck himself'.

[–] nick@midwest.social 7 points 23 hours ago

Someone needs to contraption this fucking guy asap

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