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For sure he has excellent PR and comms advisors. He gets credit, I guess, for taking their advice, but none for betraying his wife and family. It speaks volumes that so much of the leadership class in American tech and business is so morally compromised.

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For what it’s worth, I’m pretty sure many, if not most, humans in their position could be compromised in this way.

It is one person, and your enemies have all the resources at your disposal.

It is very easy to say, “I would never do X” but when you literally have a nation trying to get you do X, I presume it’s a lot harder.

This is why I am content with being a nobody.

All you have to do to moot 100% of that massive adversarial effort is to decide (ahead of time) to not be a POS and keep your dick behind your zipper. Not deciding that and sticking to it makes you a garbage husband and a dangerous and unreliable CEO.

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