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And Zuckerberg supposedly played around with the idea of running for president.

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Huh? It seems pretty obvious that he does not have the necessary charisma.

Except to himself apparently.

He has about the right level of empathy.

I felt like he was doing a lot of personal PR and a presidential run felt like it was in the works for 2020, but Facebook soured pretty quickly well before that could be realized.

I don't think he would have done particularly well either, due to lack of charisma.

Highlights from his hourlong livestream to show how relatable and definitely a human he is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVyLlFezj2E

He did a tour of America to "meet folks" and did internal polling regarding how he was received (poorly, which tempered expectations) but wouldn't be surprising if he still harbors ambitions in that realm. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/new-data...

Yeah, I remember a lot of people mocking him during all of the hearings for his robot-like demeanour. Like this: https://twitter.com/bananaben420/status/1288564841742041089

I really can't imagine him giving a speech on a stage with cheering crowds.

I thought you were going to say the "necessary data" lol

that's some technical pov, lol

LOL

Facebook can manufacture the charisma on his behalf, though.

Zuckerberg made incredible effort without announcing.

* He restructured of Facebook stock trough the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative so that he can run for a office and maintain control (also for tax and other reasons).

* He started with "I'm no longer an atheist", now believes religion to be “very important.”

* Hired Obama's campaign manager (David Plouffe)

* Hired former GWB campaign manager and RNC chariman (Ken Mehlman)

* visited 50 states "to meet people".

* hired more even more political strategists who worked for Obama's and Hillary's campaign. He had something like 150 people working just for his PR according to some sources.

No amount of turd polishing with unlimited money and PR talent was able to make people to like him. Trump is horrible but at least he raises emotions in people.

> No amount of turd polishing with unlimited money and PR talent was able to make people to like him

I don't rule it out. Gates managed to pull it off when I didn't think it was possible

I don't think Gates is nearly as uncharismatic as Zucc. I mean, just look at his old mugshot.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Bill_Gat...

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet Testing mattresses : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XFwlNVRD5M

He also made Facebook hire a full-time pollster to run polls about his popularity.

He doesn't need to be likeable to win the elections. Biden is going to implement extremely inclusive policies that large swaths of americans, especially on the south, are allergic to. So in 4 years, Zuck will simply promise to undo all these policies and those americans will have no other choice but to vote for him.

Ah yes, the people in the south are going to vote for a Silicon Valley liberal.

> He had something like 150 people working just for his PR according to some sources.

I wonder what the cost-benefit line looks like for PR person versus life coach.

That's a lot of yes-men. Maybe we should bring back Court Jester as a profession.

>Maybe we should bring back Court Jester as a profession.

As a profession or as a title?

It’s a profession. It’s hard work poking fun at people who are so deadly serious at being stupid.

* visited 50 states "to meet people".

At least we got some memes out of that.

So did Trump at one point. I won't rule out anything anymore.

To be fair to Trump, he played with the idea for decades and his timing was impeccable.

Someone (or several someones) predicted this a long time ago and I adopted it as my own.

* To elect a female president, there would first have to be a male POC president

* The president immediately after the first POC president would be the whitest, loudest man they could find.

The only thing wrong about the second prediction is that we got the orangest, loudest man they could find.

Trump has a huge base that shares his beliefs. I am not convinced that Zuck has any other then those he pays at his company. Everyone that has ever worked with him in his early years and those he acquired (Instagram/ Whatsapp) have distance themselves the moment they vested their equity.

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