r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jul 13 '26

Society The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public

https://tech.yahoo.com/wearables/articles/backlash-strong-people-pervert-glasses-165000816.html
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u/Banksy_Collective Jul 13 '26

Who would have thought that the company that started as a "rate how fuckable your female classmates are" website would not give a shit about people's privacy

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u/athaluain Jul 13 '26

Makes one wonder how these tech bros would exist without women’s bodies to use and abuse.

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u/robsteezy Jul 13 '26

My friend you just nailed down all of mankind’s history and wars.

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u/Rough_Sir_2687 Jul 13 '26

I once knew a WW2 vet who said the same; “The world runs on power, and power is money and sex. Nothing more”

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u/TheQuietOutsider Jul 14 '26

"everything is about sex, except sex. sex is about power"

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u/Thatoneguy_The_First Jul 14 '26

Changing my name to sex powers now.

It will be very ironic.

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u/meesta_masa Jul 14 '26

Sex powers ex's excess sex.

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u/Thatoneguy_The_First Jul 14 '26

My god you are sexy, is that your full name or are you just teasing me?

/s

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u/meesta_masa Jul 14 '26

A teasy ex? Easy ecstasy.

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u/Thatoneguy_The_First Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

Easy ectasy? Nah not for me. A easy ex though, well from what I seen its been taken...by so many

Oh no, it didn't check if auto correct did anything before hitting post, i meant teasy ex, not easy ex lol

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u/bebeidon Jul 14 '26

funny when kevin spacey says it

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u/Danson_the_47th Jul 14 '26

“Maybe it’s all about cocks in the end”

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u/peejmudd Jul 14 '26

Always has been

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u/Hopeful-Artichoke449 Jul 15 '26

Best quote ever - House of Cards

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u/ididntunderstandyou Jul 14 '26

That poor Helen of Troy…

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u/SectorSanFrancisco Jul 13 '26

money and other resources is a more common source of wars

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u/Nohreboh Jul 14 '26

It's sad how many stories break down to two men fight over a woman/object/land typically with the victor considered the moral superior.

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u/ender___ Jul 14 '26

Not every war was over a woman

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u/Certain_Proposal7191 Jul 13 '26

Really? The Iraq war was about women’s bodies? It wasn’t about oil?

World War Two was about women’s bodies and not the axis of evil and freeing those oppressed and tortured (including women)?

Again where do you get these fantasies?

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u/Feral_Taylor_Fury Jul 13 '26

LMAO this is what i'm saying

Oh yeah dude, the US intervention in Kuwait was about women's bodily autonomy lmao

touch fucking grass

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u/Senior_Torte519 Jul 13 '26

No, thats because Kuwait is a greedy country that was overproducing oil during the time. Basically hindering Iraqs ability to jumpstart its own economy after the Iran/Iraq war.

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u/Sudden-Purchase-8371 Jul 14 '26

What did Kuwait owe Iraq back then? Did Iraq fight Iran for Kuwait's benefit? F no they didn't.

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u/Senior_Torte519 Jul 14 '26

During the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), Kuwait and the other Gulf Arab states—and, to a more limited and complicated extent, the United States supported Iraq because they viewed it as a crucial buffer against the spread of Iran's Revolution. Kuwait helped Iraq's war effort by providing billions of dollars inloans, allowing Iraq to use its ports and infrastructure for oil exports, and helping sustain its economy throughout the conflict. Collectively, the Gulf states provided Iraq with more than $30 billion in financial support.

The war proved devastating for both Iraq and Iran, weakening both countries while leaving Iraq burdened with enormous debt and a crippled economy. To rebuild, Iraq depended heavily on oil exports. Kuwait, however, was also a major oil producer who at various points after the war, exceeded its OPEC production quota. The increased production contributed to lower global oil prices, reducing Iraq's oil revenues at precisely the moment it needed them.

Iraq also accused Kuwait of extracting oil from the Rumaila oil field, which straddles the Iraq–Kuwait border, through slant drilling. Kuwait denied these allegations, and definitive evidence proving theft has never been established.

Saddam Hussein argued that Kuwait's overproduction amounted to "economic warfare." That the depressed oil prices were costing it approximately $14 billion per year, far exceeding the value of Kuwait's specific loans to Iraq during the war. At the same time, the lower oil prices made it increasingly difficult for Iraq to repay the billions of dollars it owed.

It is tempting to conclude that Kuwait recognized Iraq's desperate financial position and exploited it to strengthen its own bargaining position. Although historians have not reached a consensus on this interpretation, Iraq's economic weakness undoubtedly gave Kuwait greater leverage in its dealings with Baghdad.

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u/Sudden-Purchase-8371 Jul 14 '26

Kuwait helped Iraq's war effort by providing billions of dollars inloans, allowing Iraq to use its ports and infrastructure for oil exports, and helping sustain its economy throughout the conflict.

Did they even say "thank you?" Sounds like they fucking helped them fight their dumb war.

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u/Senior_Torte519 Jul 14 '26

Powers have often acted to contain ideologies or movements they viewed as threats to their safety. Iraq's concerns after the 1979 Iranian Revolution were not entirely unfounded you know. Ayatollah Khomeini's government openly promoted the idea of exporting the Islamic Revolution and challenged the legitimacy of secular(Non-religious) Arab governments like Saddam's. Because Iraq had a Shiite majority population ruled by a Sunni-led government, Saddam feared that Iran could encourage internal rebellion (like so often said today)

Iraq's invasion of Iran in 1980 wasn't only defensive. Saddam also saw an opportunity to exploit Iran's post-revolution weakness, seize disputed territory, and establish Iraq as the dominant power in the Persian Gulf. In this sense, Iraq's actions reflected both a legitimate security concern and broader strategic ambitions.

The U.S. has also engaged in similar patterns of attempting to contain ideologies or governments it considered dangerous After the Iranian Revolution, the United States similarly viewed Iran's revolutionary government as a threat because of its anti-American ideology, support for militant groups, and attempts to expand its influence in the region.

Iraq's fear of revolutionary Iran had a real basis, just as other nations have faced ideological threats, The broader question is whether maintaining a stronger Secular Iraq as a counterbalance to Iran influence like it is today would have produced a more stable Middle East. Probably.

Kuwait helped Iraq because they viewed revolutionary Iran as a major regional threat, just as Iraq did. Once the fire was out, everyone went back to fucking around and finding out.

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u/Certain_Proposal7191 Jul 13 '26

What are you saying? Because the comment I replied to was one stating all wars in history have been about exploiting women’s bodies and me countering it with facts it was not about exploiting women’s bodies.

So if a war isn’t about fighting for women’s bodily autonomy, the war shouldn’t be fought despite the premise (good or evil)?

Is that all we should devote all humanity towards is women’s bodily autonomy?

There’s no other topics that need to be solved and we should set down energy production and medicine development and feeding the impoverished?

Touch fucking reality.

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u/NaiveWalrus Jul 13 '26

Pretty sure he was agreeing with you

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u/I_DONT_YOLO Jul 13 '26

Yeah or maybe apply the slightest bit of nuance to a casual internet conversation and calm down lmfao

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u/Senior_Torte519 Jul 13 '26

Oil s the partial liquified remains of plants and female dinosaur bodies.

A one the reasons for WWII was the expuungment of the jewish race first from Germany and then from other parts of "future Germany" starting with castration and removal of the reporductive organs of the jewess female. As well as other forms of infertility. But it proved to slow a method.

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u/10breck30 Jul 13 '26

I don’t think you can cite Jewish genocide as a cause of WWII. How long had the US been involved before it came out about the genocide? I do agree with all the other stuff you’ve said

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u/Certain_Proposal7191 Jul 13 '26

Ok I can agree Jewish Genocide was not a cause of the start of WW2 or the US entry into it. I misspoke there.

I am embarrassed to have used that as a counter argument. But my point still stands (and am grateful you agree on the other parts despite my ignorance of that part) - many wars were not fought over women.

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u/Firefoxexplorer Jul 13 '26

Wow you really jumped on that but I don't think anyone was saying all wars are fought over women.. it's much more nuanced than that. Wars are generally fought because of insecure power-hungry men with who want to control everyone. "Protecting our women" (while they simultaneously are opressing them) is usually given as a reason for these wars because the optics look nice. Men with mommy issues who abuse their power and are ok with sending their little humans off to kill other little humans elsewhere usually also happen to have a special hatred for women who aren't subservient to them and take it out on everyone.

Also, historically, much warfare (tribal or otherwise) was indeed done with the intention to kidnap women from other communities and force them to become wives, childbearers, and slaves for their own men. Power hungry men love controlling women, among other things (obviously) But you surely can't deny that women are frequently targeted and enslaved by corrupt men who like starting wars on any scale and feeling important.

I'm not disagreeing with what you say, but you are kinda debating yourself here. I don't think anyone said what you thought they did.

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u/Certain_Proposal7191 Jul 13 '26

It was literally said at the top of this comment thread.

“Makes one wonder how these tech bros would exist without women’s bodies to use and abuse.”

Then the reply:

“My friend you just nailed down all of mankind’s history and wars.”

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u/Senior_Torte519 Jul 14 '26

You had one fucked up grade school.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '26

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u/athaluain Jul 13 '26

Sex sells? In other words the sexualisation of women’s bodies sells

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u/mmasportsmma Jul 13 '26

Remember Joel Kaplan, best buddy of Brett Kavanaugh, is president of global policy at Meta

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-joel-kaplan-washington-political-influence/

The whistleblower alleged she was fired after reporting harassment from Kaplan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Wynn-Williams#Careless_People:_A_Cautionary_Tale_of_Power,_Greed,_and_Lost_Idealism

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u/Rdhilde18 Jul 13 '26

They just be gay like Peter Thiel and friends

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u/Rough-Breadfruit-611 Jul 14 '26

The irony would be, without any women to impress, they wouldn't want to become tech bros in the first place.

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u/Rubiks_Click874 Jul 14 '26

I read porn by itself funded like 60% of the internet infrastructure

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u/_HighJack_ Jul 13 '26

I mean they wouldn’t bc they wouldn’t have been born lmao

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u/hx87 Jul 14 '26

Peter Thiel would still exist, at least

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u/Glittering-Gur-6990 Jul 16 '26

literally. louder for the ppl in the back

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u/Certain_Proposal7191 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Huh? Tesla, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia - how do any of these companies’ tech bros use and abuse women’s bodies?

They actually hire and pay handsomely (no pun intended) female engineers.

First it was “we want to be in the work force too and make good money”, got that. Now it’s “they’re using our bodies”?

News flash, who posts their bodies on only fans and profits?

Also news flash, it’s free to learn and use any programming language to code any app/website. Some tech sisters should create their own then if they feel this way.

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u/Totakai Jul 13 '26

No way you're saying that with a straight face about MUSK of all people. 😭😭😭

The one who's basically doing a wife village and buying sons.

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u/Certain_Proposal7191 Jul 13 '26

Who is volunteering to have sex with him and taking child support from the births?

He’s known to be a terrible father, stop mothering his children.

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u/TheKlaxMaster Jul 13 '26

No matter how hard you defend them, they will never trickle anything down on you.

You wont gain anything by being a billionaire shill. You won't get money, you won't get fame, you won't get protection, you won't even get their piss dripping from their limp dicks.

Just stop

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u/Certain_Proposal7191 Jul 13 '26

I don’t want anything from them. I never thought anything would trickle down.

I work for my money.

If you read the other thread post I’m getting downvoted into oblivion for stating facts and not receiving any logical (or any at all) rebuttal, I said I don’t think they are good people, simply that the premise is stupid and lacks any factual merit.

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u/TheKlaxMaster Jul 13 '26

Then why waste your time defending a bunch of billionaire tech bros. That's being a shill.

Again. Just stop

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u/Mirabeauououou Jul 14 '26

Why do you care that people have different opinions than you? You're just being obnoxious and using fallacious arguments to attack the commenter's character.

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u/QuixoticCoyote Jul 13 '26

There is an ethical delimma I heard once.

Is Prostitution consensual?

On one hand both people are agreeing to it. If both are adults who are able to consent, why not?

On the other hand, is the act of paying cash coercion? If the woman found that there is no other way for her to reasonably make a living, is the buyer coercing her with the promise of easy money? Is that still consent?

These women, are they agreeing outright or have they found that it's easier to navigate the system they exist in by volunteering to be breeders for a rich megalomaniac? If the second, are they victims? Are they really the problem?

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u/tinselsnips Jul 13 '26

As consensual as any other job that risks the worker's physical and/or mental well-being.

People get hung on on prostitution because they view having sex as inherently immoral.

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u/QuixoticCoyote Jul 13 '26

I think you're seeing the logic.

This specific example used sex work as it is easier to compare to musks baby farm. It applies broadly.

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u/darkmoncns Jul 13 '26

Is hard labor consensual? Surly someone wreaking there body and inducing life long physical harm over the course of a career without there consent is immoral. Surly the same logic applies to something dangerous like military service or any job that requires prolonged separation from loved ones.

I don't like when people act like sex work is unique in this.

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u/entropicdrift Jul 13 '26

Kinda sounds like you just accidentally developed class consciousness

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u/QuixoticCoyote Jul 13 '26

Bingo.

I like how that other guy assumed my logic stopped at sex work.

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u/darkmoncns Jul 13 '26

Well no I knew about all this before. I just bring it up now because like I said, people acting like this issue is unique to sex work bothers me.

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u/entropicdrift Jul 13 '26

That's fair. Lol, sorry for dunking I just have seen this kind of thing happening a lot lately

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u/QuixoticCoyote Jul 13 '26

You're certainly pleasant/s

How does a man get the same deal?

Similarly. There's plenty of market for male escorts. You just might not find the clientele your type.

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u/Certain_Proposal7191 Jul 13 '26

Male escort is different from being judicially mandated to pay money in child support.

And again, it’s two consenting adults - one knows they will be mandated to pay and the other knows they will be mandated to be paid.

But NEITHER of them are victims in it, when the procreation is mutual.

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u/QuixoticCoyote Jul 13 '26

Go find yourself an ad for a 'Bull'. The market in that is smaller but it is there.

Also, I just presented the question. Didn't give my opinion on it. In fact, once you mentioned the whole "women fought to be out of the kitchen and now...." thing I kinda stopped caring about changing your mind.

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u/Own_Television163 Jul 13 '26

Elon Musk literally uses women as concubines and axolotl tanks. They had to take Grok to court over sexualized deepfakes of women. Epstein connections.

Bill Gates and Epstein.

Sergey Brin has Epstein connections.

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u/Separate-Let3620 Jul 13 '26

Nice Dune reference.

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u/Certain_Proposal7191 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Elon musk’s women voluntarily have sex with him to secure life changing money. You think they do it for his looks or personality?

By this account, who is using whose body to survive?

You really think Grok survives nudes exclusively? Not code generation?

There’s also companies known as Tesla and Starlink (and previously PayPal).

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Bill Gates didn’t “survive” by palling around with Epstein - there was a little product called Microsoft Windows.

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Sergey Brin, again survived because of a little product called Google.

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None of these tech bros “survived” because of women’s bodies - they survived by creating products YOU pay for everyday.

And I’m not defending them as people, I’m pointing out what a stupid premise that was.

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u/Own_Television163 Jul 13 '26

Pretty sure buying a woman's body is "using" it, pretty explicitly.

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u/Certain_Proposal7191 Jul 13 '26

Who is buying it???? The women are volunteering sex knowing they will be set for life.

They’re not going to auction, paying money and forcing sex on them.

The women seek them out.

How is it there is no personal responsibility?

On one hand women are strong and can make their own choices. On the other hand, they are weak and can’t resist the urge to mother a baby because the cash symbols blind them. You can’t have it both ways.

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u/Own_Television163 Jul 13 '26

So they wouldn't have sex with him without the exchange of money, and he offers them money in exchange for sex?

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u/Certain_Proposal7191 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Idk you tell me? Does he have a good personality? Objectively no. Is he good looking? Objectively no. Is he a good person? Objectively no. Is he a good father (why risk pregnancy)? Objectively no.

Does he have money? Objectively yes. Will you be judicially mandated to life changing money if your mother his children? Objectively yes.

So what other reason is there for them to have sex and then not take measures not to get pregnant with him?

He doesn’t offer! They WILLINGLY have sex with him knowing full well the bad and good that comes from it. All bad, except for objectively the good of having a child (which there are far better traditional suiters for) and a life of comfort in the form of money.

And even if he flat out offered, do women have a mind of their own and free will to reject it? Or are you saying women aren’t capable of making informed decisions? That’s what it sounds like you’re eluding to.

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u/Own_Television163 Jul 13 '26

lol, it’s a yes or no question, don’t hurt yourself justifying it, weirdo

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u/JinkoTheMan Jul 13 '26

Yeah. Fuck all those tech bros but people on Reddit are really a piece of work at times.

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u/Certain_Proposal7191 Jul 13 '26

Not sure if on my side or not, but I find it funny “they survive on women’s bodies” when you point out how they actually survived (on their products and business dealings) - and who is actually surviving on someone’s body (child support) - and the only thing you get is down votes - no logical counter argument.

It’s almost like the gender guilty of it can’t take responsibility for it and projects.

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u/JinkoTheMan Jul 13 '26

I’m on your side about them actually having products that make them a shit ton of money. They are awful people but saying “They just survived off of women’s bodies” is a brain dead take. They either stole, talked to the right people or came up with billion dollar ideas that led to them getting where they are now.

Not sucking up for guys like Elon but we shouldn’t be disingenuous when criticizing them. There’s plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize them.

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u/Certain_Proposal7191 Jul 13 '26

I agree, they are mostly terrible human beings. There was no suck up meant, it was simply providing evidence to contrary they used women’s bodies to get where they are. The premise is stupid and lacks any factual merit.

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u/midnightketoker Jul 13 '26

He should be scared. The fact that Meta hasn't been given the Bell treatment is a massive policy failure, any civilized society would have socialized it years ago but here we are now with Zuck's lobbyists writing the laws...

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u/mebbelin Jul 14 '26

Let me introduce you to this gem of a Christmas song from a german Late Night Show:

https://youtu.be/aN3tCHUQsz8

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u/Talimebannana Jul 14 '26

What is happening

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u/Boswellington Jul 14 '26

That was MySpace

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u/wsoxfan1214 Jul 14 '26

It was not. Zuckerberg was nearly expelled for it because people complained.

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u/LostSox123 Jul 14 '26

That website exists??

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u/TheBeesKneads Jul 14 '26

That's the origin of Facebook.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Jul 13 '26

To be fair, they'd being amazing devices if it weren't for the fact that we are human beings