I think it would also be fair to say that anyone who doesn't is also virtue signaling.
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Why didn't he just say anyone who quits Meta smells like poo-poo and pee-pee? That would at least be funny.
No its called having morals and standing by them. Virtue signaling is when you pay lip-service to a cause and don't walk the walk. Almost like zuck doing his dei stuff when it was popular and doing a 180 as soon as it becomes slightly unpopular.
I think it is quite beautiful to see how much <some politically, even if self-perceived, powerful person who is a moral trashheap> falls into the usual strong narcisism tendencies of projection.
I virtue signaled 7 years ago when the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, realizing that Facebook is a seedy company that can't be trusted.
Same, also, Zuckerberg has always been a sketch ball who does anti-social and user hostile things with his app, so it was just years of being fed up with that. 2017 was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Lol
Zuck is a fucking piece a shit. But the headline and article misrepresents what he was saying. His actual quote was "Some people may leave our platforms for virtue signaling" and appears to be directed towards users, not Meta employees.
Nah man, clearly you missed the memo that we now just take every statement out of it's obvious context and straw man the shit out of everything.
It hurts every real argument against these people when people make stupid arguments like this.
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"Signaled" my "virtue" in 2016. Fuck you, zuck.
he means 'is showing virtue'. And he's right.
Your hubris is showing, Fuckerberg.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who calls him that. Same think.
When I was a teen, I thought anyone who joins it is virtue signaling.
It’s kinda crazy how fast he’s unraveling into the right-wing griftersphere. Does Thiel or Putin have something on him?
maybe he just feels comfortable letting the facade drop
Exactly. Zucc was always a POS. I mean, FB got its start so he could rate the "hotties" on campus...
The title alone shows admittance that leaving Meta signals virtue and good character.
Will this decade be known as "the decade when billionares spiralled out of control"? First Musk then this android.
Imagine what Rockefeller and Carnegie would have tweeted about. You know they were crass, detached from reality hemorrhoid clusters, they just didn't get to spew it to a global audience 900 times a day.
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isn't this giant sack of shit laying off like 1000 employees?
Joke's on him. I quit before it was Meta.
Oh no, not virtue signaling! There truly is no greater crime! Specifically, it isn't worse to be an overly-built, soulless chia pet if that's what you're thinking. Definitely not.
Banning gender-neutral bathrooms and spinning to anti-woke isn't virtue signalling...
It’s vice signaling. There’s nothing virtuous about Meta or Zuckerberg. Let’s not forget his first try was a hot or not clone with pictures of women he used without consent.
And that new perm he got definitely isn’t virtuous.
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Out of the loop here, so let me get this straight: Did they build gender-neutral bathrooms that are now gendered by placing a sticker on the door? What on earth could be the purpose of that?
gendered by placing a sticker on the door
We have that at my work, but they are still gender-neutral bathrooms when the other one is in use and someone needs to use it. You can’t really ungender-neutral those bathrooms.
Wow, I knew Zuckerberg was a jerk and I knew he was right wing. But I didn’t think he was one of those rightwing immature edgelord jerks on the level of 4chan posters
He wasn't. Mark used to be a sweet kid, but he's been radicalised by all the shit he reads on Facebook. It's not too late, Mark, delete your social media profiles, stay away from that poisonous hellhole!
Nah these billionaires don’t align on the modern left wing right wing spectrum, they are all a special kind of hardcore libertarian. The only ideology they have is that they should be able to do whatever they want to earn their next billion. Him appeasing right wingers fits his MO, but doesn’t make him a right winger.
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“Some people may leave our platforms for virtue signaling, but I think the vast majority and many new users will find that these changes make the products better”
So he's stripping away protections for marginalised groups to appeal to the "vast majority" who, by definition, don't need these protections and are in no way negatively impacted by their existence. Got it, and fuck you very much.
The fact that this clown even felt the need to talk about this shows that a noteworthy number of people are leaving the platform.
It's a slow burn, but legacy social media must die.
Why, yes, Im signaling that I have virtues, which is why I am not on your site Zuckerboi.
Ah yes, the feed starting with an ad, followed by a reels module alternating between soft porn and dogs, followed by bots and more ads, maybe interspersed with a couple of posts by people whose names I recognize for good measure, are well worth my time. No need to virtue signal, I'm hooked!
What should we call blatant pandering to Trump and his ilk? MAGA signaling?
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Kind of like wearing a red MAGA hat.
Well firstly, virtue signaling is not fundamentally a bad thing. Devil is in the details.
Second, that's kinda rich coming from the guy who's been nothing but virtue signaling towards the upcoming Trump admin since his failed assassination attempt.
This is exactly the kind of thing a loser would say. Loser CEOs are always whining about people leaving their platform. Winners keep their head down and build something their users actually enjoy using.
Bruh they're taking action. It's virtue actioning. Unless you're trying to tell them they need to do something more dramatic?
Maybe saying you’re quitting meta is “virtue signalling” but actually quitting is virtuous.
No, shit for brains, giving up your job is an actual commitment. Virtue signaling is a token gesture that costs you nothing - like throwing a million dollars at an inauguration party when you're worth billions.