When Britain’s former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world. So why does he still think social media is a force for good?
I think the tension having coalition partners in the government ultimately led them to make better decisions. We all know what happened when Cameron got his majority and no longer had the Lib Dems to hold him back.
I know tuition fees is the millstone around their neck but considering they were the junior partner they got to enact a fair amount of their policy platform. Indeed most of the more popular acts during that period the Tories like to boast about where Lib Dem initiatives.
He can’t see the wood for the trees. I think he thinks that just because the people he worked with day to day were personable and pleasant to be around, that means the company mission isn’t corrupting society.
Says the man who cosied up to David fucking Cameron for 5 years, I don’t think Nick Clegg is a good judge of who exactly is a monster
And yet somehow that was still the best government we’ve had in the last 15 years :(
Jesus that’s a depressing realisation. How did it get worse from Cameron and Clegg? But somehow it did
I think the tension having coalition partners in the government ultimately led them to make better decisions. We all know what happened when Cameron got his majority and no longer had the Lib Dems to hold him back.
I know tuition fees is the millstone around their neck but considering they were the junior partner they got to enact a fair amount of their policy platform. Indeed most of the more popular acts during that period the Tories like to boast about where Lib Dem initiatives.
He held an inadvisable referandum and quit?
He can’t see the wood for the trees. I think he thinks that just because the people he worked with day to day were personable and pleasant to be around, that means the company mission isn’t corrupting society.
Or… he’s just a monster himself. Better at hiding it, arguably
“It’s fine. That pig was dead when he got his hands on it, he didn’t feel any pain.”