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I don't know if you remember the inauguration photograph but it is pretty clear that this is one big family now.

To save you some searching:

https://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/nieuwsfoto's/guests-includ...

How weird still that that is the world we live in now. I would have never predict that photograph 1 year before it was taken.

You should read A People's History of the United States!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_Un...

more fun, 'A Renegade History of the United States'

Down voted for suggesting the most salient analysis of US history. Sad!

I read this for my AP USH class. It's an interesting read that gives a little bit of very _interesting_ point on stuff. It's a fun book to read.

Well yeah, Donald Trump was threatening to imprison Zuck a year before it was taken

He also threatened to imprison Hillary Clinton. ~~She wasn't at the inauguration.~~

No she was there with her husband.

I stand corrected. Still, Trump threatened to imprison other people who didn’t start dressing like a bro and talking differently after the election - and who still aren’t imprisoned.

They are there as representatives of their companies. They have a fiduciary duty to do what they think is best for the company and its shareholders.

Hillary doesn't need to do anything like that. But even she was there.

We each have a lens on reality, your lens' aperture is skewed on this specific aspect.

The parent implied Zuckerberg was there because he was afraid of retaliation

That might be true. However, I would bet that he was also there because he sees an opportunity to wield influence to the benefit of his corporation (or limit negative consequences). Either way, ethics isn't the main driving force for being nor not being there for someone like that - it is mostly about economic power, I think.

Trump, just now:

"This is a much more powerful term. I can do stuff that's unbelievable. I called Google, Google Maps. They wouldn't have taken my call in the first term. Now they kiss my ass."

Why ?

It was always this world. Except there were no pictures and definitely no social media back then. Welcome to reality.

Loss of accountability and deregulation leads to oligarchy. If we are lucky, this will take decades to clean up.

Reminds me that Plato viewed oligarchy as being better than democracy, as long as laws are being upheld. When laws are not being upheld, a lawless democracy is better than a lawless oligarchy.

It's an obvious flaw in hindsight. In an oligarchy, how exactly are laws upheld? The Oligarchs got there by being above the law and in our age of instant information the People see full-view what it takes to win. Nobody wants to be the sucker when everyone is getting theirs.

I've noticed a number of your politically charged comments tend to rank highly on HN these days, jacquesm. So just to be clear, you are implying that this temporary account suspension is a plot by Mark Zuckerberg to suppress a major political group in the US and Meta is okaying this internally to gain preferential treatment from the US government?

hn is becoming reddit every day

I've been seeing variations of this stupid comment for like 15 years on this site.

respectfully your ad hominem reflects more poorly on you intellectual capacity than mine

There is a thread about about why posts like this get flagged...

This thread is the reason, it's like people off meds posting here about unrelated topics, crazy town.

They looks like degenerates - in the photo they really are sickeningly grotesque! It's not Felliniesque because they have their own, new style of hideousness: putrid, plastic, shiny, smug, weak, and radically vulgar!

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Party.html?id=v7fSD...

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