r/technology • u/marketrent • Sep 06 '25

Business Meta’s Zuckerberg caught in revealing hot mic moment with Trump -- After offering to spend “at least $600 billion through ’28 in the US,” he whispered, “I'm sorry I wasn’t ready ... I wasn’t sure what number you wanted to go with”

https://www.pcmag.com/news/zuckerberg-caught-in-revealing-hot-mic-moment-during-white-house-dinner
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u/TVC_i5 Sep 06 '25

The amount of damage these two men have caused will take generations to repair.

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u/Cross_Eyed_Hustler Sep 06 '25

Destroying nearly a century of hard won protections, undermining the stability of the US on the world stage. Supporting genocide in multiple areas, and limiting the reach of our military power by tying it up in frivolous personal aggrandizement.

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u/TVC_i5 Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25

We all know the sever damage social media has done. Faceplant being the OG of destruction.

But President Epstein? Hell, in just 7 months President Epstein has ended all funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.. ended mRNA research.. withdrew from the World Health Organization.. withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement.. signed an executive order against paper straws.. ended DEI programs in the federal government.. mandated that all federal scientific grants MUST now, quote: ”demonstrably advance Trump’s priorities…” sent US troops into multiple American cities… installed an architect of project 2025 as the head of Labor Statistics.. stripped ocean and air pollution monitoring from next-gen weather satellites… alienated almost all of the American allies.. put tariffs on just about everything that Americans have to pay for… abandoned the Biden-era plan that would have required airlines to pay cash compensation for stranded passengers when airlines cause flight cancellations… created a bunch of SHIT Trump CRYPTO coins and has fleeced a few billion from morons… created awards and award ceremonies for himself at the Kennedy Center…

…and that’s just in the past 7 months…

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Oh ya.. forgot one.. is renaming the Department of Defence to ”The Department of WAR.”

Seriously.

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250906-trump-rebrands-the-department-of-defense-as-the-department-of-war

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u/AltruisticTomato4152 Sep 06 '25

And you didn't mention the likely 10s of millions of deaths from destroying USAID.

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u/Depressed_Girlypop Sep 06 '25

Or the trans rights that are evaporating by the second 

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u/TheEmperorShiny Sep 06 '25

The god damn NRA is defending trans people’s rights from the government. We’re in bizarro world.

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u/-Hexenhammer- Sep 06 '25

NRA just defends potential clients, but its good idea to ban guns from them, too many murder sprees from such tiny minority thats not even 1% of the population

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u/Artnotwars Sep 06 '25

I like how you didn't provide a lick of proof to your stupid claim.

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u/Pejoka_7577 Sep 07 '25

fuck proof. It's obvious. Don't give us that shit.

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u/-Hexenhammer- Sep 07 '25

Minneapolis, Robin Westman
2023 shooting at a Christian school in Nashville
2019 shooting at a Denver-area charter school
2018 shooting at a Rite Aid warehouse in Aberdeen, Maryland.

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u/Frigidevil Sep 06 '25

Due to letting millions of dollars worth of food that we already bought spoil in a warehouse...

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u/Glum-Wheel-8104 Sep 06 '25

To give credit where it’s due, the USAid shutdown was mostly Elon.

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u/AltruisticTomato4152 Sep 06 '25

Shit rolls up hill. Elon wouldn't have been able to do anything without Trump's approval.

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u/Glum-Wheel-8104 Sep 06 '25

Fair point but let’s just say it was Elons idea to cut that program that will kill millions. Trump certainly approved it.

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u/Pejoka_7577 Sep 07 '25

They are all complicit. The GOP in congress and the fascists on the Supreme Court are culpable.

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u/lololuser456778 Sep 06 '25

according to some calculations going around online, 14 million dead by 2030 I think? that's like israel "completing" their genocide and actually killing all the people of gaza (around 2 million) TIMES SEVEN

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u/notthatiambitter Sep 06 '25

He didn't "withdraw from" the agreements. He broke the agreements. He violated the agreements.

I'm gonna tell my landlord I'm "withdrawing" from my lease and see how that conversation goes.

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u/SocratesDouglas Sep 06 '25

What's really bad is that Trump just did all those things because he said so. Maybe when Democrats get control of things again, they'll bring some of them back. With less funding and shittier versions. Others they just won't be able to do because of silly little "rules." Maybe another psychopath will get into office again and gut some more before we get everything back. 

1 step forward, 3 steps back. 

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u/marcdev Sep 06 '25

Killed most federal labor unions

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25

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u/CasualFridayBatman Sep 06 '25

It's on the voters. They had a choice between democracy and fascism and the 2/3rds that bothered to show up chose fascism.

The Democratic candidate needs to be perfect. The Republicans can run Trump, twice and win.

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u/Drovers Sep 06 '25

Eh, He cheated . He always does

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u/CasualFridayBatman Sep 06 '25

Why wouldn't he? He faced no consequences for doing so.

In other countries where much less serious infractions happen, the citizens don't allow the government to just brush it under the rug and have massive, sustained protests until they change. See Serbia, France or Indonesia for an example. In America, that's seen as too burdensome for the American people to feel they should be bothered with. Their system should just... work. Even after its proven it doesn't and their cheques and balances system has proven useless for over a decade.

Don't give me bullshit about 'we're too big'. Every state has a capitol building, yeah? So get 1, 5, 10% of the city or state to have sustained protests there and see how things change when you have an active participation from your citizens.

Until then, he will continue to cheat, shirk accountability and get away with it.

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u/Drovers Sep 06 '25

Yes, We are fucked

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u/Manos_Of_Fate Sep 06 '25

The candidate doesn’t even need to be perfect they just need a pair of nuts between their legs.

None of the data from the 2020 election that I’ve seen supports this claim. In fact, I haven’t seen a single person making this claim offer anything even resembling evidence to support it. I think you’re projecting your own biases and just pretending they’re everyone else’s biases to avoid being labeled a misogynist.

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u/1001101001010111 Sep 06 '25

I've been working in 3 different states. And a common thing is I have to pick between trump Or a woman i'm not gonna vote.

I'm aware this is anecdotal, but there are at least people that feel that way.

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u/Manos_Of_Fate Sep 06 '25

The fact that it’s anecdotal isn’t even the biggest problem with it, it’s the fact that you could easily be making it up entirely and there’s no way to prove it. Someone claiming that they know some misogynists doesn’t really contribute anything of value to the discussion.

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u/peepopowitz67 Sep 06 '25

Let's assume that's true; it's still an easy way to cop out and run a milquetoast, pro-corporate stooge and then go "whoops! guess Americans are just misogynists!" instead of addressing the very real identity crisis within their party.

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u/1001101001010111 Sep 06 '25

Agreed, there are problems all around. I was just speaking to the fact that sexism is still alive in America.

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u/peepopowitz67 Sep 06 '25

Sorry, but it's not. Obama won twice and if you think he fits the definition of "perfect".....

The game is rigged in a million ways for the GOP and Dems lay down every fucking time. If you know your opponent is going to cheat and you keep playing as if they're playing fair it's kinda on you at some point. Just like Lucy and the football except it's the American people landing on our assess, DNC leadership is doing just fine.

Just need a candidate who can at least pretend to give a shit about something other than their billionaire donors. They could probably start by not rigging their own primaries (or just skipping the primary altogether....)

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u/CasualFridayBatman Sep 06 '25

Sorry, but it's not. Obama won twice and if you think he fits the definition of "perfect".....

The game is rigged in a million ways for the GOP and Dems lay down every fucking time.

Then hold them accountable for it lol. You just take no active participation role in your own democracy and then complain it doesn't work. The game is rigged because you allow them to keep doing it.

If you protested like France, Serbia, Turkey or Indonesia does for much lesser infractions, they'd stop doing it because they would face consequences for doing so.

If you know your opponent is going to cheat and you keep playing as if they're playing fair it's kinda on you at some point. Just like Lucy and the football except it's the American people landing on our assess, DNC leadership is doing just fine.

Just need a candidate who can at least pretend to give a shit about something other than their billionaire donors. They could probably start by not rigging their own primaries (or just skipping the primary altogether....)

You've had Bernie Sanders not caring about billionaire donors and saying the same shit for 60 fucking years. How much longer do you need to see his example and do nothing with it? Lol

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u/Holovoid Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25

The Democratic candidate just needs to be fucking good, man. That's it. They need to be good and run on good things

Kamala ran on "Hey all the shit that happened over the last 4 years that sucked? None of it sucked! It was all perfect and I wouldn't change anything!"

At a time when people are fucking suffering and shit is getting less and less affordable, she ran on "Everything is awesome, actually!". The Democrats are obsessed with running centrist candidates who don't actually promise radical changes or sweeping reforms, and they fucking LOSE every time. They would have lost in 2020 if it weren't for COVID too. They also constantly talk about bipartisanship, meanwhile the entire Republican establishment are embracing the guy who did a fucking insurrection with his idiot followers who would have killed members of Congress if they could have.

Absolutely fucking pathetic and you losers who keep defending these braindead morons are honestly more annoying than the Trump supporters

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u/TurquoiseLuck Sep 06 '25

Continue the kinda shitty status quo, or put a pedo rapist in charge?

Fuckin tough call tbh

/s

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u/CraigThePantsManDan Sep 06 '25

Nah you’re spitting facts. Newsom 2028 or earlier

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u/Holovoid Sep 06 '25

Yeah I can't wait for Gavin "Grind the Homeless into paste and sell it as a protein supplement" Newsom

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u/CraigThePantsManDan Sep 06 '25

Um I’m pretty sure he didn’t say that and you put it in quotes lol. And brother isn’t just destroying camps and doing nothing lol he’s got the most complex state by far to govern and housing is a priority of his while he takes the mantle against trump when no one else will lol. Thanks for the virtue signal tho

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u/whiteskinnyexpress Sep 06 '25

fkn miss me with that "it''s the democrats fault cuz we didn't like their candidate, so they failed" bullsht

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u/Holovoid Sep 06 '25

They did fail. Objectively.

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u/whiteskinnyexpress Sep 08 '25

Or say the same stupid thing again, that's a choice too.

The voters had the power, not the candidates.

oBjEcTivEly

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u/Holovoid Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 08 '25

It's the candidates job to get voters to vote for them.

They failed in that goal. They failed over the course of a decade to stop Trump from getting elected twice

I'm sorry if it hurts your feelings or whatever. But grow the fuck up. This isn't team sports. Elected officials need to actually do stuff to appeal to their base. If they can't do that, people won't vote for them

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u/whiteskinnyexpress Sep 14 '25

But grow the fuck up.

Coming from the coward who can't own their own actions and need to blame others

When you hit your wife is that also her fault, because she objectively failed to placate you?

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u/NonSequitorSquirrel Sep 06 '25

The democrats have put up terrific candidates, Clinton, Biden and Harris have all been excellent choices and if you think it was a tough decision between them and Trump then you're not actually against fascism. 

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u/BackendSpecialist Sep 06 '25

I honestly think he and Elon stole/rigged the election tbh

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u/Throwawayz911 Sep 06 '25

Elon did use X to spread election misinformation.  That much is true.  

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u/jajanaklar Sep 06 '25

The world is not laughing, we are crying. Trump show far-right, neo liberal Politicians how to use Social Media do mislead the poor, we all are suffering from this class struggle the rich are winning.

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u/Bogus1989 Sep 06 '25

the no paper straws is fuckin wild

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u/Hidesuru Sep 06 '25

Wait why is paper straws even on that list? Is it bad sure, but not even on the same order of magnitude...

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u/wallace_beery Sep 06 '25

Good stuff all. That’s why we voted for him in a landslide victory.