FrostyTheDoo @ FrostyTheDoo @lemmy.world

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Both can be nuts

Hmmm sorry, best we can do for you is furrowing our brow while we sign the murder checks. Hopefully that signals our virtues well enough to move on so we can focus on more pressing issues like "are drag queens Satan" and "what should senators wear to work"

Core takeaway: huff sulfur, live forever

Steve Jobs is the exception. I'm just trying to answer the original question about why this happens so often. I'm not trying to argue about the best way to run a company. But if you're equating every founder with Steve Jobs then we're having a completely different conversation.

Apple is now the most valuable company on earth, so I think you're not making the point you think you're making. Publicly traded companies act only based on what increases the value of their shares the most. If the current CEO isn't seen as the most profitable CEO for the shareholders, they will eventually be replaced, even if they founded the company. That is a risk you knowingly take when taking your company public. Most founders choose the money that comes with an IPO, knowing they'll eventually get the boot.

Because it requires a completely different skill set to run a startup with only yourself and 50 employees to worry about vs a multi-billion dollar, publicly traded company. People that are good at one of those often aren't good at the other, so when their company changes from the former to the latter, they get the boot for someone better at running the new version of the company.

"Not siding with Israel" is much different than using the largest social media account in the world to post Nazi-baiting comments and imply that Jewish people are ruining America. Most of what Elon is actually saying about Jewish people is entirely unrelated to the current conflict in the middle East.

You can vote for anyone you want to. Not voting at all is stupid.

I'm sure you're going to expend some personal effort to actually get those candidates you like elected? Or no, just complaining and throwing up your hands in 'protest'?

Oh I get it, you think it's a game or a theoretical situation without any nuance. Makes a lot more sense now.

So you have a lot of complaints about everything, and your solution is to choose to do nothing? Thanks for removing yourself from the decision making process for the rest of us.

Yin and yang

Let us know what you decide!

Okay buddy 👍

As an impartial observer you are being an ass to this other person. The combative nature with which you make all of your points is never going to get you the results that you want. Unless that result is just feeling superior to someone else or fighting all the time. Then have at it.

I think the person you're arguing with is barely even disagreeing with your points, they're just trying to defend themselves against your reactive accusations. People don't like to agree with an asshole.

Maybe don't gamble on politics

It's.....spot on?

I try not to, but they continue to find ways to surprise me. You may be right.

I don't think blaming Democrats will work when they can't get enough votes from their own party to even start the process of letting the Democrats vote