They made those promises before Trump. When Trump showed them it is fine to drop your masks, they all followed suit.

I thought it was a weird AI mistake

is he going to pretend to be leftist again?

I have been seeing that all the time for the last couple of years. Surveillance fetishist billionaires aren't helping with that too. They just can't seem to realise that the more they want to interfere in regular people's lives the more they are hated.

Enlighten me, what instance do you think I think I am in o master of ironies

Threats of violence against users or threats of violence against billionaires? I see the latter regularly since I joined lemmy about couple years ago. I even have a "space billionaires" meme myself, if that counts as one. The former, I have never seen any.

billionaires tend to do this quite alot, there is certainly a correlation. I think there is also a causation, i.e among people with opportunities it is easier to become a billionaire if you are abusive.

I don't know if this counts as context. That quote is something the cop likely lied to justify his aggression. We still don't know why he was trying to detain the man in the first place.

He probably believes that by forcefully calling it big and beatiful he can will those qualities into existence. Classic billionaire mentality, if I am saying it, it must be correct. Plus a significant dose of college grade bullyism.

It is called decoder-encoder identity testing.

Yet he wants to be the first author in articles published by his research teams:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8qD8mxQAAAAJ&hl=en