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The really troubling news buried in this to me was the appointment of Dana White to the meta board of directors. Like seriously what purpose does he serve but t

The really troubling news buried in this to me was the appointment of Dana White to the meta board of directors. Like seriously what purpose does he serve but to appease the new administration?

evilfred 2y ago
he beat his wife on video, that is who Zuck likes now, kinda strange
tyleo 2y ago
Out with the DEI people appointed to appease the old administration in with Dana White to appease the new one I guess.
aerostable_slug 2y ago
I was thinking about this as well, and it makes sense if Meta is planning a big sports push. Using a Quest 3, the sports "coverage" I've seen has been compelling (virtual NBA courtside seats are pretty nifty), especially MMA. Zuck's an MMA enthusiast so it fits. It would be silly to pretend politics plays no role in this, but it's not like they're putting Don Jr. on the board.
- kridsdale1 2y ago
  There’s also the factor that Zuck is becoming personal friends with Joe Rogan (according to Joe, they text each other memes and shit talk people) and Dana is Joe Rogan’s best friend.
CSSer 2y ago
He's Mark Zuckerberg's friend. They became close because Zuckerberg picked up MMA as a hobby. Zuckerberg has a majority stake in the company that can't be contested. He decided to throw his buddy a bone. That's it. Zuckerberg is tired of how much effort being "woke" takes. This is pretty easy to understand if you imagine being white and super-rich, and the closest exposure you have to any "real" adversity in life is your other super rich, multi-cultural friends and loved ones. Wealth inequality is at its highest ever in the United States. He observed that the people he was supporting still hated him because he's disgustingly rich, so he's getting diminishing returns for his effort to "be cool". Meanwhile everyone else is having so much fun. When he complained to his other rich friends about this, they convinced him that they don't really have any biases, he doesn't owe anyone anything, and people are just jealous. So the metaphorical gloves come off. The next four years, and maybe even many more years beyond that because of the persisting judicial climate, are going to be filled with people coming unmasked in this regard.
adrr 2y ago
Maybe Zuk wanted good seats to UFC fights.
- MrMember 2y ago
  He already gets a cageside seat, right next to Dana.
stepanhruda 2y ago
That’s not news, just reiterating, this was announced separately earlier in the week
jmcdowell 2y ago
I'd recommend listening to the first hour of the podcast this is taken from just as he was more candid than I thought he would be. Zuckerberg at points brings up how the EU as is very defensive and has taken social media companies to court for the sum of 30 billion (never mentioning why). He laments how the US government need to be more protective of US tech companies overseas specifically naming the EU. When talking about Dana he says how he will explicitly help with them work with difficult foreign governments (be that through how he did it with the UFC or his relationship with the new administration). It sounded quite like they're preparing to more confrontational with the EU and he at one point mentions how he thinks the new admin is going to protect them more with foreign countries.
- jjulius 2y ago
  This requires us to trust what comes out of his mouth. If folk are still doing that after all this time, I've got a mighty large bridge you'd likely be interested in purchasing.
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  - ilikehurdles 2y ago
    You're welcome to your opinion, but this view of adversarial views and people who hold them is building precisely no bridges from your silo. Listening to someone talk it out for an hour or more, and flesh out their views without constant interruption really helps you understand something about their mind and their drives in life. Very few people can keep up a facade of rehearsed talking points and bullshit for 3 hours.
    - bamboozled 2y ago
      What Joe does is let people be persuasive for 1-3 hours. It doesn’t reveal anything secret or give you any special insights into their real character, motives or intentions. You need to judge people through their actions, past history and ideally by working with them directly. This is all just PR, not saying it’s bad, or even intentional. But it’s a form of self-promotion most of the time. A fun podcast to checkout is called “Decoding the Gurus” where they dissect a lot of these conversations.
jdminhbg 2y ago
It's interesting seeing reactions to this. My first take was "of course he appointed Dana White, he's a big MMA dork now." The connection to Trump didn't occur to me til later.
tim333 2y ago
I was just watching Zuck explain that to Rogan. The bit: https://youtu.be/7k1ehaE0bdU?t=3579 https://youtu.be/7k1ehaE0bdU?t=3579 tl/dw: amazing entrepreneur
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The really troubling news buried in this to me was the appointment of Dana White to the meta board of directors. Like seriously what purpose does he serve but to appease the new administration?

evilfred 2y ago

he beat his wife on video, that is who Zuck likes now, kinda strange

tyleo 2y ago

Out with the DEI people appointed to appease the old administration in with Dana White to appease the new one I guess.

aerostable_slug 2y ago

I was thinking about this as well, and it makes sense if Meta is planning a big sports push. Using a Quest 3, the sports "coverage" I've seen has been compelling (virtual NBA courtside seats are pretty nifty), especially MMA. Zuck's an MMA enthusiast so it fits. It would be silly to pretend politics plays no role in this, but it's not like they're putting Don Jr. on the board.

kridsdale1 2y ago
There’s also the factor that Zuck is becoming personal friends with Joe Rogan (according to Joe, they text each other memes and shit talk people) and Dana is Joe Rogan’s best friend.

CSSer 2y ago

He's Mark Zuckerberg's friend. They became close because Zuckerberg picked up MMA as a hobby. Zuckerberg has a majority stake in the company that can't be contested. He decided to throw his buddy a bone. That's it. Zuckerberg is tired of how much effort being "woke" takes. This is pretty easy to understand if you imagine being white and super-rich, and the closest exposure you have to any "real" adversity in life is your other super rich, multi-cultural friends and loved ones. Wealth inequality is at its highest ever in the United States. He observed that the people he was supporting still hated him because he's disgustingly rich, so he's getting diminishing returns for his effort to "be cool". Meanwhile everyone else is having so much fun. When he complained to his other rich friends about this, they convinced him that they don't really have any biases, he doesn't owe anyone anything, and people are just jealous. So the metaphorical gloves come off. The next four years, and maybe even many more years beyond that because of the persisting judicial climate, are going to be filled with people coming unmasked in this regard.

adrr 2y ago

Maybe Zuk wanted good seats to UFC fights.

MrMember 2y ago
He already gets a cageside seat, right next to Dana.

stepanhruda 2y ago

That’s not news, just reiterating, this was announced separately earlier in the week

jmcdowell 2y ago

I'd recommend listening to the first hour of the podcast this is taken from just as he was more candid than I thought he would be. Zuckerberg at points brings up how the EU as is very defensive and has taken social media companies to court for the sum of 30 billion (never mentioning why). He laments how the US government need to be more protective of US tech companies overseas specifically naming the EU. When talking about Dana he says how he will explicitly help with them work with difficult foreign governments (be that through how he did it with the UFC or his relationship with the new administration). It sounded quite like they're preparing to more confrontational with the EU and he at one point mentions how he thinks the new admin is going to protect them more with foreign countries.

jjulius 2y ago
This requires us to trust what comes out of his mouth. If folk are still doing that after all this time, I've got a mighty large bridge you'd likely be interested in purchasing.
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- ilikehurdles 2y ago
  You're welcome to your opinion, but this view of adversarial views and people who hold them is building precisely no bridges from your silo. Listening to someone talk it out for an hour or more, and flesh out their views without constant interruption really helps you understand something about their mind and their drives in life. Very few people can keep up a facade of rehearsed talking points and bullshit for 3 hours.
  - bamboozled 2y ago
    What Joe does is let people be persuasive for 1-3 hours. It doesn’t reveal anything secret or give you any special insights into their real character, motives or intentions. You need to judge people through their actions, past history and ideally by working with them directly. This is all just PR, not saying it’s bad, or even intentional. But it’s a form of self-promotion most of the time. A fun podcast to checkout is called “Decoding the Gurus” where they dissect a lot of these conversations.

jdminhbg 2y ago

It's interesting seeing reactions to this. My first take was "of course he appointed Dana White, he's a big MMA dork now." The connection to Trump didn't occur to me til later.

tim333 2y ago

I was just watching Zuck explain that to Rogan. The bit: https://youtu.be/7k1ehaE0bdU?t=3579 https://youtu.be/7k1ehaE0bdU?t=3579 tl/dw: amazing entrepreneur

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