“I wish they could bring John Denver back to life just so he could sue Mark Zuckerberg for this."
A gift for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s almost eight million Instagram followers this morning with a video of a cartoon-like “Zucky” e-foiling a boat’s wake, carrying an American flag and cut to John Denver’s Country’s Roads.
The great Tahitian surfer and ski wrangler at the WSL’s Surf Ranch, Raimana Van Bastolaer, was among the first to congratulate his pal on the post, dropping shaka and ok emojis.
Others, less kind.
We need a ‘erase your memory of this’ option,” the Hoarse Whisperer wrote on Twitter. “I wish they could bring John Denver back to life just so he could sue Mark Zuckerberg for this.
I wish they could bring John Denver back to life just so he could sue Mark Zuckerberg for this.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) July 4, 2021
A noted economist,
You (Zuckerberg) have:
—Perverted our elections;
—Depressed American teens; and
—Made discourse more coarse.Bitch, you should never hold a US flag. https://t.co/dskELCqSQD
— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) July 5, 2021
And this perceptive man,
Mark Zuckerberg may have united the left and the right in America: just not in the way he planned. https://t.co/cBNlo8EeRS
— vasabjit banerjee (@vasabjit_b) July 4, 2021
Zuckerberg, who is thirty-seven and whose net wealth hovers around the hundred-and-twenty bill mark, was an early adopter of the electric foil board, regularly making appearances on BeachGrit on the miraculous little watercraft. Readers will remember his controversial “white-face” makeup (“I’m not going to apologise for wearing sunscreen,” he said) and his recent humble-brag shout-out to ultra-watercat Kai Lenny.
Out e-foiling on a fine Hawaiian day, wearing a black wetsuit and helmet, face unseen so maybe slathered in sunscreen, maybe not, Zuckerberg grabbed a clip from either wife or personal filmer, posted it to Facebook and wrote, “Kai Lenny, am I doing this right?” all set to a White Stripes’ cover of “I just don’t know what to do with myself.”
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Zuckerberg banned and stifled Trump.
He should get a medal.
“Marxist of the year” medal?
Marxist, right.
Zeppo or Groucho?
You wouldn’t know Karl Marx if he jumped into bed with you.
The 5th richest guy in the world is a Marxist?
Workers control the means of production?
Damn your generation is ducking fumb.
I agree with this guy https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Yeah, people control the means of producing their own Facebook pages, and Zuck collects all the commodity cash, don’t worry when he dies he said he’ll give 99% back to the people. Power to the people!
And Cameron’s gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she’s gonna treat him like shit, ’cause you can’t respect somebody who kisses your ass, just doesn’t work…
Zuckerberg does good things with his money.
The guy who got popped by Mr. White off Devil’s Slide?
Where did they take him?
The trauma unit at Zuckerberg General Hospital – a thoroughly modern medical facility that Zuckerberg helped along with a measly $75 million grant.
How much good do you think one hospital does for 20% of the population of San Francisco?
And that’s just one of many many things Zuckerberg has done with his money.
He gave $300 million to assure fair and free elections.
Small minds like to snipe about small things.
Bigger minds see a much bigger picture.
There’s a new APP you should try.
It’s called SHADDAPP!
Whine whine whine.
He truly is an abomination. To hell with Zuck and his empire of shit.
Kai Lenny must be stopped
Are we so sure that’s an “e-foil” Dez? Looks like a regular foil on a boat wake. Just saying. It’s no less abhorrent though.
Kai Lenny, The Orange Boy, not Donnie the giant pampered baby, approves that move and style!
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Sad…but who am I to question someone’s shaka?
#FuckZuck !
And Fucken Page n Bryn.
Giant cunts, all of them.
They’re changing the world, shitbird, for the better.
Someone has to create a future for you to be a useless whiney fuckup in.
You have a tremendous amount of blind faith in these arseholes.
I do not. They have shaped the internet with a shit commercial advertising data mining model that uses massive amounts of bandwidth that we as users pay for. They are fucken leeches and the sooner more people realise it and stop using their services the better.
So yea – oh and get fucked.
Which bandwidth do you pay for?
What does it cost you to use Facebook?
Twitter?
Bitchgripe.com?
Don’t cost nothing.
Facebook is a massive service that’s available for free.
The Interent is a massive service that’s available for free.
Deal of the century.
My only complaint is the interent exposes just how damned dumb mass quantities of people are.
That part is scary.
In this matter, among others, it would appear you are either naive or completely ignorant.
And I do not use any social at all. Never have.
Edit: apart from this piece of shit, sad, sorry excuse for a message board called disqus.
pedo.com qualifies as social media and we know y’all are all over that.
On this day I can truly say, I am proud to be a bonafield, patriotic, non-american.
Foiling is better than pipe.
Fits in any pocket
His style is improving, way less arm waving.
Even $120 billion can’t buy style.
Hah ! Plenty arm waving when his fucken profits are threatened.
#FuckZuck
I’d rather arm waving than American flag waving.
do u need to do anything on a motorized boat?
Righto China, I’m ready to switch.
They do need more girls.
haha
Seriously