This Man is a Coward.

Mark Zuckerberg sat in the safety of his bubble this week, silent as Donald Trump dismantled and declawed the National Institutes of Health. Forty billion dollars in research funding now hangs frozen. Thousands of scientists wait in limbo. And the tech billionaire who once promised to help cure all diseases can't muster a single word of protest.

The silence tells us everything. So do the actions that preceded it. In the months since Zuckerberg's Thanksgiving meeting with Trump, the architect of the Poke has orchestrated a complete surrender of principles at Meta. He stripped away fact-checking programs. He gutted content moderation policies. He elevated Republican executives to key positions. He eliminated diversity initiatives across the company, claiming without evidence they had somehow worked "too well" - even as men continue to outnumber women at Meta by two to one.

Watch how quickly he moves when Trump demands change. Special rules for Trump's social media posts? Done. A warm welcome back to Meta's platforms? Arranged immediately. The dismantling of years of protective policies? Executed within weeks. Zuckerberg transforms himself with each passing month, molding himself into whatever shape he thinks will please his new master. The awkward coding prodigy now struts around as a cage-fighting, wild-pig-hunting warrior philosopher, spouting tired talking points about "masculine virtues" on Joe Rogan's podcast.

Money tells the real story. Meta makes billions by harvesting and selling our attention to the highest bidder. Zuckerberg controls it all with near-absolute authority. He has more wealth than he could spend in a hundred lifetimes. He commands a platform that reaches billions of people. All that power, all those resources, all that potential influence - and he uses it to make himself smaller, bow lower, and surrender in ever more craven contortions of the human spirit.

Look at his performances at Mar-a-Lago. Listen to him parrot Trump's language about "wokeness" and "masculinity." See how eagerly he implements Trump's wishes, destroying programs and policies that took years to build. The corporate jargon about "cultural balance" and "positive aggression" can't hide the truth. The talk of preventing cultural "neutering" can't disguise what's really happening.

His response to criticism reveals everything. When confronted about his silence on Trump's NIH cuts, he accused his critics of "making things up." When questioned about dismantling diversity programs, he buried the truth under buzzwords about "workplace culture." He retreats behind a wall of corporate doublespeak when pushed about his constant capitulation to Trump's demands. He rolls out contingents of Proud Women of Meta to defend his "feminism."

But he cannot conceal the simple, obvious truth.

This man is a coward.

The world already sees the damage. With each capitulation, Zuckerberg writes the simpering manual for corporate America's submission to authoritarianism. Amazon followed Zuckerberg's lead, rolling back its own diversity initiatives. Other tech companies watch and learn, reading the political winds through the lens of Zuckerberg's surrender.

Power corrupts, but cowardice corrupts more completely. It corrupts not through excess but through absence - the absence of backbone, principle, and basic human courage. Zuckerberg had every resource needed to stand up to Trump's assault on American institutions. He chose weak-willed submission in its place.

Surrounded by wealth and power, Zuckerberg probably tells himself he's making necessary compromises. He likely sees himself as a pragmatic leader navigating difficult times. But history will see him clearly: a child who would not become a man, a vacuum who traded his principles for proximity to power, a peon who sacrificed everything he claimed to believe for a seat at an authoritarian's table.

Mark Zuckerberg commands one of the most powerful companies on Earth. He controls vast wealth, unimaginable resources, and direct access to billions of human minds. Mark could speak up. He could take a stand. He could use even a fraction of his power to defend the institutions and principles he once claimed to cherish.

Instead, he cringes. He capitulates. He collaborates.

This man is a coward. And no amount of corporate jargon or performative masculinity can make that stain go away.