• dou9m@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    It’s like Zuckerburg’s old white t-shirt thing or Steve Jobs with his turtleneck.

    It’s an easy way to get PR as a tech bro, especially in the modern day where one of your main goals is appealing to young men who both buy your products and vote for the people who control how your products are purchased

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      A lot of famous people have a very simple outfit to discourage photographers.

      If you look exactly the same from one day to the next, nobody can make money off taking pictures of you.

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          Agreed: They are such soulless uncreative homunculi they believe mundane clothing like a “white tee shirt” or “a black jacket” is a fashion statement. Now that I think about it, their sense of fashion being limited to just one single complimentary article of clothing was probably the first hint tbh.

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            I don’t think there’s anything about a fashion statement, it’s literally just a PR team coming up with a personalized style

            And everything is about it, not only clothing but the way they talk and behave in public too. During the twitter episode we saw some real musk coming up, until the PR team took a hard grip and eventually rebranded him as racist musk which has been successful for him with the maga people

            You can sometimes see also them testing waters, like when he tweeted somewhat recently about UBI to see if there’s any pull left for left leaning people

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        I was informed awhile back that my chronic dehumanization of Zuckerberg was technically tied to antisemitic tropes awhile back so I’ve been trying to avoid doing that lol but I appreciate the fix!

        My thinking is if there’s anyone we know who loves antisemitism, it’s definitely gonna be the guy who made Facebook.