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It's not very healthy to be so politically infatutated, that too with one ideology. You will change, either with age or circumstances and then find yourself having missed certain oppurtunities because you don't find someone politically aligned with you.

All these cries about democracy, and I haven't seen any single core structural change. Even the most hated country on HackerNews, Hungary, whose leader got the emergency power gave it back. Then we have Andrew Cuomo, who still has way more power than most head of states.

Recently I read a post about education that was quite resonating. Universities have historically been "hard to enter, but easy to exit", meaning it's really difficult to get in but about the only thing that matter is getting in and no one really cares what your grades are if you are from Stanford/Harvard et.al.

On the flip side, med school or west point are less about getting in but more about exit value. It's not really that important as to whether you got in but whether you graduated from West Point. West Point / Navy Seals can essentially double the class size without losing any credibility. I think higher education is going in similar direction.

Mark Zuckerberg has no best buddies, and if you think the likes of Reid Hoffman aren't best friends with Mark, then you are willfully ignoring the reality.

Dirty? This is not at all dirty. Ben (Shapiro), to much of my dislike, has really good content that some people like and others want to promote it. The whole sharing stuff is totally legal, and within the rules.

Also, if FB is allowing such "dirty" techniques, now known to most people, then why aren't they working for others? Michael Bloomberg spent like gazallion dollars for his election, he can sure take down Shapiro if it's indeed bigotry. Even, NYT has plenty of cash to promote it's content. You need content that people like, which Ben Shapiro has, and NYT can't get it's act together.

Facebook isn't hedging any bets, it's just not giving into the mob like behavior by the advertisers. Facebook knows that the advertisement dollars were anyways not going to be coming to FB due to the recession, and if they take a political stand at this moment, then they are inviting regulatory risks from the other side.

Facebook is staying neutral, and not giving into any pressure, mostly because Zuckerberg's job is safe and FB has plenty of cash!

Yes to "Am I being foolish?", I mean if you have to ask...

oh wow, ok, didn't know that there was one fatality.

I am sure there are such investors, but our companies are already crossing a trillion dollar market cap, you need to have a few billion dollars to move market significantly. As the amount increases, so does the due dilligence.