Anil DashJan 23, 2025
Less than 10 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan said their foundation was going to try to find a cure for ALL diseases. Now @zuck has supported Trump's defunding of the National Institutes of Health, whose research and support has done more to help end, cure or treat diseases ranging from cancers to infectious diseases than almost any other organization in human history. Genuine villainy. https://chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/can-we-cure-all-diseases-in-our-childrens-lifetime/
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Show threadYann LeCun
Where did you see that Mark "supported Trump's defunding of the NIH"?
That would be contrary to everything Mark and many of our colleagues at Meta stand for. Starting with me.
Jan 24, 2025 at 12:36pmWeb
Show threadMark LoundyJan 24, 2025
Support for Trump is support for Trump’s policies.
Show threadNate WestheimerJan 24, 2025
You are a smart guy that many people admire. Do you think Mark’s words and actions have been more supportive of Trump recently, giving Trump power to do these heinous things, or has Mark been courageous and voiced his opposition to having an autocratic kleptocracy? If @zuck refuses to speak against the administration in the service of “shareholder value” you, a well paid shareholder, are complicit too.
Show threadAnil DashJan 24, 2025
The thing many are doing at Facebook right now (and have always done) is to fight the cognitive dissonance by treating internal messaging as truth, as with Meta women saying, “He helped my career!” But *the purpose of a system is what it does*. The _world’s_ truth is the truth. We know Mark went to the inauguration! Donated money! Jetted to Mar a Lago! Is “Optimistic and celebrating”! Whispers behind closed doors *don’t count*. https://www.anildash.com/2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/
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Show threadMark ZuckerbergJan 24, 2025
It's always revealing when a person's response to disagreeing on something is to start making things up about you.
Show threadAnil DashJan 25, 2025
There’s nothing to make up! You’re trying to dance around with some technicality about what you may or may not be saying behind closed doors. Then there’s the actual reality of standing in complicity and not actually objecting when you have *so much* power to actually push back. If you wanted to stand up and fight against this, you WOULD.
Show threadmiketheironJan 25, 2025
@anildash but Trump’s policies might add another zero his bank balance… it’s difficult for a man to object to batshit fucking crazy health policies when his net worth depends on him not doing so
Show threadHank GreenJan 25, 2025
He /wants/ to, but Trump has been pretty clear, if you’re disloyal then you (and your stock price) will pay the price. Good thing Trump didn’t do something mean like call him an oligarch. That would be insulting and worthy of public comment.
Show threadAnil DashJan 25, 2025
In prison for the rest of his life.
Show threadIan RamjohnJan 25, 2025
It's telling that he takes the time to argue over the way you phrase your assertion, but won't disagree with the substance of what you say.
Show threadAnil DashJan 25, 2025
It’s always revealing when a person’s response to an accurate criticism is an attempt to distract rather than address the claim.
Show threadMegan Kelley HallJan 25, 2025
So support cancer research that your best buddy cut funding for. You could do it with your pocket change. Don’t be such a grinch. Try philanthropy. Don’t any Meta employees get cancer? Wouldn’t you want a cure? What’s wrong with you? You support someone who wanted to throw you in jail? Are you insane?
Show threadJaec from TwJan 25, 2025
Show threadJaec from TwJan 25, 2025
Help me ratio him.
Show threadJaec from TwJan 25, 2025
RE: https://www.threads.net/@jaec_123/post/DFOcsz7Bw9_
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"His company announced it’s ending its fact-checking program, removed restrictions on hate speech, and shoved a million bucks into Trump’s inaugural coffers. Meta is also ending its DEI programs. It’s still not enough — not nearly enough — for much of the Trumpworld elite. “There is a lot more ass-kissing that needs to be done,” says a senior Trump administration official. “He just needs to prove himself. It’s a good start, but he can’t just snap his fingers and make the past not happen.”"

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Show threadEshu MarneediJan 25, 2025
Answer the question, cuck.
Show threadIan RamjohnJan 25, 2025
Do you not endorse this decision? You gave $1 million to the man, you've bound yourself to him. Even now, you can't even say "I disagree with this", you can only quibble over rhetorical structure.

Even this response is evidence in support of what Anil says.
Show threadSinister PixelJan 25, 2025
Fact checking would fix this. Just saying
Show threadRyan GraneyJan 25, 2025
Shut it Zuck. Don’t you have a protein drink to slam?
Show threadPatrick LaForgeJan 25, 2025
You can always choose to prove him wrong by speaking up. It is never too late to do the right thing.
Show threadPatrick LaForgeJan 25, 2025
“My actions are my only true belongings.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
Show threadPatrick LaForgeJan 25, 2025
Silence is consent.
Show threadRobert StevensJan 25, 2025
🙄🤡

And it’s always the MAGAs that say stuff like this and then add “If you block me, I win.”

Is this your best “masculine energy”? It’s weak sauce, dude.
Show threadMatt DeSienaJan 25, 2025
The ratio on this is 🤌
Show threadElliot EchlovJan 25, 2025
"Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant … must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves." — Aesop
Show threadSteven MarxJan 25, 2025
Nazi traitor says what?
Show threadKarissa & LinhberghJan 25, 2025
real life is going to put @theonion out of business 😭
Show threadAndrew, LCSW | ADHD TherapistJan 25, 2025
If only we could fact check the things that were “‘made up”
Show threadAmy GarmanJan 25, 2025
C'mon, can't you take a joke? You're the one who said, "No fact checking."
Show threadJohn WyattJan 25, 2025
It’s as stupid as lying about there being no biases in Texas, Cuck
Show threadLotusland ComicsJan 25, 2025
But how do we know it's made up, Mark? How?
Show threadRichard CunninghamJan 26, 2025
It's almost like you need fact checkers here
Show threadwhatifbarackorhillarydiditJan 26, 2025
Irony…table for one.

Oh, no self-awareness, you will also be joining?

Make that a table for two.
Show threadGirl DadJan 26, 2025
Mark met his current wife because Sheryl Sandburg pushed him in her direction at meta’s diversity gala
Show threadJohn WyattJan 26, 2025
Show threadVivian Jenna WilsonJan 26, 2025
Show threadJosJan 26, 2025
RE: https://www.threads.net/@rednesbitt/post/DFQXYcEPOEc
Brian Nesbitt (@rednesbitt) on Threads

Imagine being a part of the LGBTQ community and having dangerous lies (ex: Being gay is a mental disorder) spread about you on your platform which now refuses to fact check or monitor. But im sure you, a white cis male multi-billionaire, are having the WORST day (because of the actions YOU’VE taken.) PS - Perms have been out for awhile. If you had a gay friend you could’ve avoided looking like little orphan Aryannie.

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Show threadOsmar PortilhoJan 26, 2025
have you heard about FACT CHECKING?
Show threadJamesJan 26, 2025
You are a man child who can’t face what he has wrought in the world and now you hide in your extremely expensive Hawaiian basement.

You are not cool. You never were and are never going to be.
Show threadLuca ZenariJan 26, 2025
It's always revealing when a person sees the level of consequence of a certain behaviour only when they are the target of it, and not when others are.
Show threadamberwavesofflameJan 31, 2025
Sure would be nice if we had a reliable way to tell when someone is making things up. Oh well, viva freeze peach!
Show threadJaec from TwJan 25, 2025
Show threadIan RamjohnJan 25, 2025
He gave $1 million to Trump, which is a huge mark of support. When you've tied yourself so publicly to a politician, and the political does something so incredibly egregious, remaining silent can only be taken as support.
Show threadDavid N. WeltonJan 25, 2025
Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas
Show threadRobert StevensJan 25, 2025
He supports Trump, who did the defunding, and whose choice of RFK Jr. made it clear he would do things like this. Stop being deliberately obtuse to kiss up to your boss. It’s obvious and gross.
Show threadJohn WyattJan 25, 2025
Show threadPeter MerholzJan 25, 2025
But I'll make it simple: Zuck supports Trump; Trump defunds the NIH; ergo Zuck supports the defunding of the NIH (until he makes *very* evident otherwise).
But, as Upton Sinclair shared:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Show threadWorld Bike ForwardJan 26, 2025
You don't get to pick and choose once you've kissed the ring