Red Mosquito • View topic - Are you Team Soros or Team Thiel or Team Musk? (Poll time)

dad · **Joined:** Fri June 24, 2016 2:49 pm **Posts:** 16489

BurtReynolds wrote:

How strong is google? They have an ISP, phones, servers, search, media... near complete vertical dominance. What are they missing? A bank? A military?

plush toys and trading cards.

spike · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 4:18 am **Posts:** 28068

elliseamos · **Posted:** Wed April 26, 2023 12:42 am

McParadigm · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 1:56 am **Posts:** 21806

BurtReynolds wrote:

(Thiel) hasn't been around as long as Soros and isn't as flashy as Musk, but he's making moves behind the scenes, or so I'm told.

Burt’s an FBI informant, confirmed.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Sun October 29, 2023 12:37 pm

I've revealed too much.

Anders · **Posted:** Sun October 29, 2023 1:13 pm

This feels like voting in an American election.

McParadigm · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 1:56 am **Posts:** 21806

Anders wrote:

This feels like voting in an American election.

Only the rich and powerful are allowed as options in the poll.
Two of the available options are in a perpetual state of self-immolation.
The third one is 198 years old.
Easily the dumbest person is winning the poll.

Checks out

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Sun October 29, 2023 1:23 pm

Zuck was on Rogan the other day. He's trying to get back into the game after that Meta debacle.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Sun October 29, 2023 1:24 pm

Oh wait maybe that was an old episode.

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47190

BurtReynolds wrote:

Oh wait maybe that was an old episode.

Unreal

Vitalogist · **Joined:** Fri October 27, 2023 1:30 pm **Posts:** 479

I don’t trust them…. But Musk is doing a lot for the economy.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Mon October 30, 2023 6:00 pm

Vitalogist wrote:

I don’t trust them…. But Musk is doing a lot for the economy.

Ehh...from an extractive capitalist mindset, yes, he's doing a lot. I'm skeptical much of his input will prove resilient or equitable.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Mon October 30, 2023 6:43 pm

I saw something that showed the electric vehicle market is essentially flat for the last several years if you remove Tesla from the market. I didn't realize they had such a dominant share. That might start to change a bit once Tesla charging stations open up to other vehicles, but I doubt it.

B · **Posted:** Thu November 30, 2023 1:42 pm

tommy · **Joined:** Sat August 05, 2023 11:13 pm **Posts:** 2498

I think we can all agree that people who work in advertising should be round up and killed.

The Argonaut · **Posted:** Thu November 30, 2023 1:51 pm

rather moronic man

Peeps · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 12:41 pm **Posts:** 5812

tommy wrote:

I think we can all agree that people who work in advertising should be round up and killed.

oh this should be good. Why?

tommy · **Joined:** Sat August 05, 2023 11:13 pm **Posts:** 2498

The goal of advertising is to make people feel bad so they'll buy shit they don't need. Obviously I'm being hyperbolic in saying they should be killed, but society would 100% be better off if they all went away.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Thu November 30, 2023 2:12 pm

Fuck you money in action, but why is it always the crazy guys who understand the concept?

Peeps · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 12:41 pm **Posts:** 5812

tommy wrote:

The goal of advertising is to make people feel bad so they'll buy shit they don't need. Obviously I'm being hyperbolic in saying they should be killed, but society would 100% be better off if they all went away.

actually the goal of advertising is inform you of (new) products, persuade you to buy theirs and remind you that they are out there. there are many things in general that are advertised that are needed (like food, drink, clothing etc..) and each of these have different levels of the product from your most basic to ones that while do the same job as the basic are created and produced in such a way that makes them more expensive. it all depends on what level you are willing to pay and the item you want. make no mistake, probably 65-70% of items advertised are things you need and the rest are items that you may want

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