Absolute sadness. Being one of the richest persons in the world and still having to kiss ass.
bigbadfeline · 49m ago
> Being one of the richest persons in the world and still having to kiss ass.
They don't have to and they don't like the taste of it, but they get so much more for a simple kiss that it's a no-brainer for them - they're all good, calculative businessmen.
Homework assignment: Where does the lot they get come from?
watwut · 3h ago
They dont have to. They want to. They have way more choices in their lives then we do.
mrandish · 3h ago
To me, the weirdest part of this is that they're doing it because it apparently works so well on Trump. I can intellectually understand Trump having differing views from mine and a very different personality but it's hard to comprehend how anyone can be a wealthy business executive and media personality for decades who achieved at least some level of functional success and still not intuitively recognize the obvious motivations behind such flattery or praise and dismiss them completely. Wealthy, famous people have nearly everyone blowing smoke up their ass - especially in politics. I can't understand how anyone could function at all in that context without developing natural immunity to it. Yet, by publicly repeating the flattery/praise he receives from others, as well as clearly seeking it out, Trump gives every indication he accepts it as credible and that its important to him.
There are perhaps a dozen people in the world whose praise would be both credible and meaningful to me.
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cjbenedikt · 3h ago
Pukable behaviour by these CEOs. Perhaps only Bill Gates stands out a little for mentioning his "2nd career" and doesn't brown nose DJT.
Just as a reminder, the person these CEOs are cheerfully meeting with is either a brutal pedophile, or at the very least, the documented best friend of one of the most prolific and notorious pedophiles in America -- someone the administration is trying to wipe from the news cycle through any means necessary, including pampering his co-conspirator/co-rapist and claiming the whole thing is some sort of Democratic hoax. Lies upon lies to conceal the rape of countless children in service of the glorious Party. But these tech magnates don’t give an iota of a shit as long as the money keeps flowing in.
This is some real end-of-a-republic degeneracy. Decades down the line, people will point to these events in history books to show that we weren’t remotely as civilized as we thought. In a just world everyone at this table would spend their retirement years in a cell.
_menelaus · 4h ago
You are completely right.
treetalker · 4h ago
I also have it on good authority that Trump is fucking Satan.[1]
[1]: South Park Season 27, Episode 4 ("Wok Is Dead").
quantified · 4h ago
If you buy into all that superstition, he resembles the anti-Christ enough to be worrying.
They don't have to and they don't like the taste of it, but they get so much more for a simple kiss that it's a no-brainer for them - they're all good, calculative businessmen.
Homework assignment: Where does the lot they get come from?
There are perhaps a dozen people in the world whose praise would be both credible and meaningful to me.
No comments yet
This is some real end-of-a-republic degeneracy. Decades down the line, people will point to these events in history books to show that we weren’t remotely as civilized as we thought. In a just world everyone at this table would spend their retirement years in a cell.
[1]: South Park Season 27, Episode 4 ("Wok Is Dead").