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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.

> 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.

> 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.

* visited 50 states "to meet people".

At least we got some memes out of that.

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.

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