Fuckerberg

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

That is from a poem by Emma Lazarus. I first heard about it when I was a kid. I’m still searching for its expiration date. If you come across the expiration date, let me know.

Let’s talk about the above titular made-fun-of individual. I know you’re thinking that it is above me to make fun of anyone.

No, it isn’t.

I first joined Facebook in 2007 at the behest of the admin of the company I worked for at the time. A bright eyed 20 year old with nothing but optimism, little did I know that she’d have a major impact on my life with such a small gesture.

I’ve made a ton of money on Facebook. I went live in the OR when my offspring was born. But I’ve not nearly made money anywhere remotely close to one Mark Zuckerberg.

Mark Zuckerberg has recently decided to bend to kiss the golden ring of one trumpy world leader. I am not going to mention him by name (LOL) but you know who I am talking about.

Before you say “You’re fucking doing it again, talking shit about someone when you’re supposed to be talking about gratitude,” read this.

Actually, read the first 2 editions of this newsletter/blog. I mention that no matter who it is, any human we come across has 90%+ DNA in common with chimpanzees. Which means that Fuckerberg (autocorrect, sit the fuck down) has lost touch with the plight of the everyday person that he feels it’s appropriate to beseech the approval of the trumpy individual who shall not be named.

Fuckerberg has enough money and influence to solve the plight of many millions of people, but what does he do? He gives skinheads and the KKK a free pass to post whatever the fuck they want, not understanding the ramifications of it, instead of spraying lysol on that festering aspect of human decay.

You can say whatever you want about the trumpy individual. At least we all know he’s never going to solve the water crisis or bring back the polar bear from threatened status. Or critical thinking. It’s almost like he gets a reprieve.

But Fuckerberg (Insert Beavis and Butthead laughter here)?

He has been in a position of potential mass benevolence for such a long time, but has never acted on it on the world stage. And now he wants to be edgy, be part of dude-bro culture, and tell Joe Rogan that he believes in “free speech.”

Sure, I believe in free speech too. But he has a much bigger responsibility than most everyone does in curtailing what George Carlin called “the power of stupid people in large numbers.” Or so I paraphrased. But to quote Uncle Ben “With great power comes great responsibility.” Full stop.

With great motherfucking power comes great motherfucking responsibility for the people in the back.

He is worth $211.8 billion dollars. Imagine how much healing he can do with that. And chooses not to. He instead wants to be in with what is edgy and hip. Fascism.

Does he not know what will happen if you give bigots a platform? We fought a war over what happens when said bigots got a little too big for their britches.

Fuckerberg is so far gone that all he cares about is moving the needle to have more power. That $211.8 billion I guess is not enough (what would happen if he paid off all gofundme accounts, even the fraudulent ones?). But yet, he’s just one human, who has 90%+ in common genetically with a shit throwing chimpanzee. So whatever may come out of his mouth should come as no surprise, he’s not far off (just like you and I) from a chimpanzee. And by him moving the needle, a regular person moving their needle as much as Fuckerberg intends would take several millennia.

Bozos and the guy from South Africa with the exploding cars are just as far gone, if not worse.

There’s a meme going around to the effect of a news article saying something like “Humans to build luxury hotel in space in the next 10 years.” And it has a reply of “All we want is health care.”

Why is it so fucking hard to understand?

To tie this into gratitude, the gratitude lies in being grounded enough to know that many other fellow humans are suffering. And I am grateful to still have a voice through my vote, and knowing that kindness and empathy will still prevail in the age of the modern oligarch. I am grateful to be in a position to ensure my offspring understands the severity of all of this.

One day, this will all be undone. Maybe not in my lifetime. People will be smart enough to realize they never did have a shot at success, and those that hoarded those people’s success will fall. How or why it will happen, I don’t know. I assert my first amendment privilege.

Going forward, I may randomly schedule one of these newsletter posts for a date far into the future. Like WAAY into the future. Like so far into the future, I hope Beehive is still around by then. In case there’s an absence in these weekly posts.