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Nick Clegg: If the people who ran FB were monsters, I wouldn't have worked there

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/facebook-nick-clegg-tech-bros-trump-leaving-silicon-valley
11•donsupreme•5mo ago

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biglyburrito•5mo ago
Keep in mind that this guy was a Brexit advocate. He was also "hired [by Facebook] as a lobbyist and public relations officer". So yeah, this is exactly something I'd expect a paid hack to say.
orionblastar•5mo ago
You mean this is not grass roots but astroturf?
techpineapple•5mo ago
“I got paid 100 million dollars to launder the reputation of monsters, and I’d do it again” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
pinewurst•5mo ago
"If Satan was such a bad guy, I would've never sold my soul to him!"
digianarchist•5mo ago
Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg author of "How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again)" was a Brexit advocate?
blibble•5mo ago
he directly supported an in-out referendum, at the point he thought it would get him into power

https://www.libdemvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Clegg...

(the leaflet is complete gold, he even criticises the tories for not offering a proper one)

there was also this amazing speech by him: https://youtu.be/cDcR_6x7GgI?t=812

which is exactly what he then did after he lost the referendum, just like his japanese soldiers

the man is a total hypocrite of the highest order

digianarchist•5mo ago
Supporting a referendum on EU membership and advocating for Brexit are not the same thing.
polka_haunts_us•5mo ago
The whole point of the Lib Dems supporting an in-out referendum was that in the event they were actually elected to power and therefore able to enact their platform, the UK would be in a state where they would obviously support "in" because the only people who would ever vote for the Lib Dems were people who were EU maximalists.
blibble•5mo ago
that strategy worked great for the Tories
polka_haunts_us•5mo ago
The Tories were notably not a EU maximalist party and the only reason they added support for an in-out referendum was due to pressure from the side of the party who wanted "out".

The Tories are in fact not the same party as the Lib Dems, whose leader at the time, Nick Clegg, this thread is about. I'm not really sure why you're bringing them up.

blibble•5mo ago
> The Tories were notably not a EU maximalist party

funny, I distinctly remember the party spending a vast amount of money trying to get the British to vote Remain

> The Tories are in fact not the same party as the Lib Dems, whose leader at the time, Nick Clegg, this thread is about.

you're... the one responding to my sub-thread, where I mentioned them in my first post

the tory connection is obviously relevant to Clegg's political career, where his main accomplishment was working with them, destroying his own party in the process

blibble•5mo ago
I am convinced facebook didn't realise that Clegg was only part of a minor third party

he ended up as "deputy PM" (itself a made up job), due to a 1 in 100 election quirk of the system

they thought they were getting the Obama's administration's Biden

but no, he was the Jill Stein

digianarchist•5mo ago
Hung parliaments are not a "1 in 100 electoral quirk" they've happened multiple times in the last 100 years.
treetalker•5mo ago
I don't work for monsters.

I worked for the people who ran Facebook.

Therefore the people who ran Facebook weren't monsters.

QED!

oriettaxx•5mo ago
A mafia's member could have said the same.

The majority are pretty idiots (much more then pictured in movies), but some who pretend to have some ethics think, for example, that thanks to the mafia italy did not became a communist country (it's not my own opinion, it's history... they really do!)

mna_•5mo ago
This is the guy who did nothing while his buddy, Cameron, enacted austerity measures that have destroyed the nation. He's a monster.
JohnFen•5mo ago
So he says (and maybe even thinks), but the people who run Facebook are monsters.

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