Nick Clegg: If the People Who Ran Fb Were Monsters, I Wouldn't Have Worked There
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Former Facebook executive Nick Clegg defends his work at the company, sparking criticism from commenters who question his integrity and the ethics of Facebook's leadership.
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https://www.libdemvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Clegg...
(the leaflet is complete gold, he even criticises the tories for not offering a proper one)
there was also this amazing speech by him: https://youtu.be/cDcR_6x7GgI?t=812
which is exactly what he then did after he lost the referendum, just like his japanese soldiers
the man is a total hypocrite of the highest order
The Tories are in fact not the same party as the Lib Dems, whose leader at the time, Nick Clegg, this thread is about. I'm not really sure why you're bringing them up.
funny, I distinctly remember the party spending a vast amount of money trying to get the British to vote Remain
> The Tories are in fact not the same party as the Lib Dems, whose leader at the time, Nick Clegg, this thread is about.
you're... the one responding to my sub-thread, where I mentioned them in my first post
the tory connection is obviously relevant to Clegg's political career, where his main accomplishment was working with them, destroying his own party in the process
he ended up as "deputy PM" (itself a made up job), due to a 1 in 100 election quirk of the system
they thought they were getting the Obama's administration's Biden
but no, he was the Jill Stein
I worked for the people who ran Facebook.
Therefore the people who ran Facebook weren't monsters.
QED!
The majority are pretty idiots (much more then pictured in movies), but some who pretend to have some ethics think, for example, that thanks to the mafia italy did not became a communist country (it's not my own opinion, it's history... they really do!)