Jenna BOO!-tenberg @jennaroutenberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2024This man read the sparknotes of Freakonomics and now it’s everyone’s problem 0120 0
Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 12/02/2024It's particularly despicable in that it ignores that about half the population changes their name as adults when they marry, often several times in the course of their lives. 1100 0
Momma H @fracturcritical.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I agree with Bill. My very first hotmail email account was "highd" and I was very high then too 020 0
InMyMedusaEra @tasiaf.bsky.social · 12/02/2024eat the rich. it's the only thing they may be good for 000 0
Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 12/02/2024"Baze" sounds like "Baize" and "more" is, well, more, so clearly I should be...upholstering pool tables? Lots of them? 250 0
Steve K 🎃 @skleinedler.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I made this two months ago, and it comes in handy now. 0140 0
Erik Inglis @allthebeset.bsky.social · 12/02/2024he's correct about names as destiny, but misintepreting the destiny his names (all credit to Berke Breathed--https://www.humortimes.com/36297/berke-breathed-bloom-county/) 1431 0
NutMeg @casuallychaotic.bsky.social · 13/02/2024And I have to respect your opinion, since based on his logic you are an archangel with the power to announce God's will to mankind. 000 0
Brian Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 12/02/2024When I was in high school I worked for a guy named Fred Berger who ran, get this, a Popeye’s knockoff chicken place. Also he opened a Mardi Gras supplies store and became a professional poker player. So, like, destiny in naming. 1170 0
Chainsmoker Tabaxi @raulpudd.bsky.social · 12/02/2024This is how Dracula knew he was going to become a Dracula 0190 0
Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Wow this is even stupider than I could have possibly imagined. It is amazing that simply having money gets you a platform from which you can humiliate yourself. 080 0
Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Hmm. I like my professors and authors sans name-calling. You *look* like a full-grown adult.. :( 000 0
YellerDog @yellerdog.com · 12/02/2024"I read this book. Snow Crash. Very influential. Main character was born with the name Hiro Protagonist. Now, think about that for a second." 030 0
DJB 🇨🇦 @djb100.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Does ackman also believe in astrology? I'd give good odds on it. 010 0
Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I sometimes encounter people who tell me that no one could possibly believe the ignorant things Trump says. Next time that happens, I need to show them this. 010 0
jashead @jashead.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Like Jordan Peterson or Joe Rogan, Bill Ackman makes me want to spit before uttering his name. 000 0
I Love Pets Four Haunted Twenty @ilovepets420.bsky.social · 12/02/2024can't believe that having a lot of money makes you absurdly dull 0100 0
No Worries if Not @nottodayknees.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I wouldn’t ask my pediatrician for poetry recommendations. Let’s stop asking billionaires about anything other than how to exploit the working class 000 0
Prady Misra @pradym.bsky.social · 12/02/2024These guys are so full of of it that can’t even smell it 000 0
SteveMND @stevemnd.bsky.social · 13/02/2024Wow. This man is building a life plan based on nominative determinism. I… I don't even know how to properly respond to that sort of information. 000 0
Top 1% of All Spooky Vaginas @formicadinette.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I realize it was an interview, but Ackman talked to the guy for an hour and a half before asking his name? 020 0
Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 12/02/2024That name stems from German “Acker Mann”, with “Acker” as in English acre, referring to a farmer 170 0
Chris Johns @cajohns.bsky.social · 12/02/2024So glad I named my daughter Prosperous Indestructible Squillionaire 120 0
The Dapper Diner @thedapperdiner.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Famous perfume house owner Elon Musk was not available for comment. 090 0
The Rocky Horror Picture Shōgun @mgobl.eu · 12/02/2024How nonzero is the chance he thinks it's spelled "acktivist"? 010 0
Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 12/02/2024this is actually that Tim Heidecker standup special, yeah? 000 0
LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 12/02/2024His wife’s name is Oxman. What does that say about her? 110 0
Reed McMaster @mcmasterreed.bsky.social · 12/02/2024It's cool he just created his own, incredibly dumb, version of etymology 010 0
Shrimply Delicious @1tonsoup.bsky.social · 12/02/2024He really went brain worked after being called out who his wife is an actual plagiarist 000 0
Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 12/02/2024He is the Ack Man Comfortably Boo@numb.comfortab.ly 0301 0
Dustin Du Cane @dustinducane.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Ackman means bailiff aka asshole in Bavarian. 000 0
Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I’m constantly caught in-between never wanting to hear about these idiots ever again and being glad they’re being reported on so everyone knows millionaires are legitimately incredibly stupid people 2723 0
AdreanaLangston @adreanalangston.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I am telling you that Capitalism as it is practiced in the US rewards mental illnesses such as narcissism and sociopathy as much, if not more, than it rewards innovation, being industrious, hard work and talent. 020 0
Bob Shephard @rpshephard.bsky.social · 12/02/2024With a name like Ford, it's no wonder Henry Ford became a car manufacturer 010 0
Aeryn 💀 The Living Dead Transsexual @baphometta.bsky.social · 12/02/2024If nominative determinism actually worked, he would have been named Dumbfuck McFashboy, but, here we are. 0785 0
Riverdaleboy @riverdaleboy.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Managed to miss a lot of kabbalah school but still graduate. 000 0
ninjamonkky.bsky.social @ninjamonkky.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Maybe putting the people whose special skill set is just, getting rich, in charge of everything was not the best idea. 000 0
Mike Behr @mabehr.bsky.social · 12/02/2024This was covered in Freakonomics too. The assertion was that there were a significant proportion of dentists named Denny. Not commenting on the validity of the claim, just highlighting that he’s not unique in the belief 000 0
Sarama Burwani @ hey there's a spider on your back @saramaburwani.bsky.social · 12/02/2024behold the genius of a man whose hedge fund has never beaten the S&P 500 ever 290 0
La Conquête du Panini @botsnack.bsky.social · 12/02/2024This is "challenging me as reality" levels of dumb. 000 0
stuck in a wall of corn @wallofcorn.neocities.org · 12/02/2024this is the worst reading of nominative determinism i have ever seen 000 0
RobotLemur @robotlemur.bsky.social · 13/02/2024Does this mean Bill Ackman, because of the way his name sounds, thinks he's a black man? 000 0
Devin𓅃 @devin-eleven.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I am continually shocked by Ackman's stupidity. The things he says are just dumb. He has to be someone's puppet, I don't believe he could manage a lemonade stand. 030 0
CR @yourfriendbap.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I would like to know if there's actually someone with the surname Hamburger who owns a McDonald's franchise, or if that was just lazy bullshit in service of his "activist man" punchline. 000 0
Lamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Surely being a Hack is closer to Ackerman than Activist? 000 0
William Slothrop @williamslothrop.bsky.social · 12/02/2024You mean to tell me this guy, who thinks careers happen because people go and do what their name says, doesn’t understand the value and function of DEI programs?? 000 0
Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Actually this checks out. Every Smith I grew up with went on to be a blacksmith, and the Coopers all make barrels now. 020 0
Rod Killin' (can't believe I never thought of that before) @rodhillen.com · 12/02/2024I disagree. There is nothing profound about him. He's a beige stain on a taupe rug. 000 0
Joe Sweeney @jsweeney73.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Forrest Gump had similar thoughts: “There was Dallas, from Phoenix; Cleveland - he was from Detroit; and Tex... well, I don't remember where Tex come from.” 000 0
Baby 👶 @specialbaby.bsky.social · 13/02/2024naming my kid Sluts Bussyfucker and just sending them in to the world 000 0
Sparky Griswold @sparkygriswold.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Good to know that Dicksucker Smith III is destined to carry on his family legacy! 000 0
Zeroisanumber @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I could trick this man into signing a $10 million dollar bond to get his nose back after I pretend to steal it off his face. What are we even doing letting these people run the country? Mother of God! 0141 0
Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Another reason no one should be this rich: it makes you think your brain farts are sparkling champagne 11594 0
Harbor Freight reply guy @hailthefatkid.bsky.social · 12/02/2024New age batshittery meets old Eugenics pamphlets. 051 0
real-world evidence of an unseen evil ☣️🕷️🏴☭ @arachnocommunism.bsky.social · 12/02/2024it's true though! WILLIAM ALBERT ACKMAN is an anagram for A BLACKMAIL LAW MINTER, do you think that's just a coincidence? 000 0
president, Spreadsheet Persons Local 153 @werrrp.bsky.social · 12/02/2024"my wife, she's an ox, you know" 000 0
Maisie Pubblechook @maisiepubblechook.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I legally changed my birth name to one I liked better in my mid-20s. How does that fit into this silly theory? 000 0
Alanna Sweeney @alannaofdoom.bsky.social · 12/02/2024....ladies and gentlemen: the Aristocrats! 000 0
Chris @jazzhandmedowns.bsky.social · 13/02/2024How is this "profoundly stupid"? Megan Fox turned out to be a fox, Christian Bale literally bailed on doing anything about his lisp, & Mark Wahlberg OWNS A DAMNED RESTAURANT NAMED WAHLBURGERS. What's "profoundly stupid" is writing off Ackman's theory without even doing minimal effort to research it. 100 0
Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 12/02/2024TIL that being a nepo baby with a good eye for stocks makes you a genius in sociology, psychology, and several other completely unrelated fields! 2280 0
JiSe @jise.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Soo.. how many people will be inspired by this article to name their kids Guillotine? 020 0
Chris Doyon @nilbog3000.bsky.social · 12/02/2024That terminal stage of wealthy brain poisoning where even your closest friends and confidants haven’t made fun of you when you say stupid, creepy, demented shit for years 050 0
Ron Payne @accipiterf1.bsky.social · 12/02/2024It's true, your life often is fated from birth. For example, if you are born the child of a rich asshole, you will also likely become a rich asshole. 010 0
??? @bonhomiequan.bsky.social · 12/02/2024The only thing that would make this better would be "My name is Bill Ackman ... I'm basically a black man" 020 0
Stan Gunn @stangunn.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I will give social media credit for this one thing: we now have firmly established evidence that the ubermensch among us are no smarter than the mensch driving Ubers. 010 0
f͎i͎z͎z͎.͎l͎o͎l͎ .°• @fizz.lol · 12/02/2024The way to his kind of money and privalege makes people say the dumbest shit in the most confident & arrogant manner. Such a fucking idiot. 040 0
Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Also, his name just means son of little Arnold. What a dumbass. 080 0
mikonner.bsky.social @mikonner.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Goddamnit I’ve been trying to come up with “Calvinism but secular and even more incomprehensibly stupid” for months. back to the drawing board I guess 010 0
“Spooky” Tom Guycott @thomasguycott.bsky.social · 12/02/2024This is barely a step above the hidden phonetic meanings in Mantong from the Shaver Mystery. 000 0
Sam @halborski.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Well, this certainly explains my coworker William Fuckup 000 0
Wayne B. Smith @waynesbrain.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Nah, that's the sound of Bill the Cat hacking up a fur ball. 060 0
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/02/2024truly insane to believe in nominative determinism when you're name is literally Ack Man 4350 0
