• vinyl@lemmy.world
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    Then let’s surveil Larry himself for a starter. Doesn’t seem like he was on his best behavior for his whole life

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    Do none of these horrible cunts that yearn for that dystopia ever read history books?

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    So, a full on police state, so much for land of the free, and home of the brave…

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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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      Please do not disparage those of us with obesity by comparing us to these fucks

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        As a medically morbidly obese guy, I have absolutely zero issues with invoking obesity as an apt technical description of the unhealthy and damaging consequences resultant of the tolerance of their existence.

        Those who qualify to be diagnosed as medically obese typically don’t have a readily available remedy for their condition, but the financially obese can legitimately be held solely responsible for their rehabilitation.

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          Okay, you don’t speak for all of us. People like me really don’t like it, and think it contributes harm.

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            My original post never even referred to you, unless you’re also morbidly wealthy.

            Manufacturing imaginary attacks similarly manifests harms to legitimate discourse.

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            You don’t speak for all of us either, I was obese, I have since managed to (thanks to the wonders of being poor and having a physical job) lose a lot of the weight.

            I was not offended by someone calling what was once commonly known as a “Fat cat” (a rich person) financially obese, because it’s accurate and easily conveys the meaning and message, that these billionaires actively choose to keep hoarding money despite knowing that they couldn’t spend it in their lifetimes without buying countries (or islands ahem North Fox Island / LSJ)

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            you are confusing unhealthy obesity of people, with financial obesity/bloat. they arnt even describing people at all. stop trying the “body positivity hting”

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    Larry Ellison is apparently looking to eliminate privacy, so where do we go to watch recordings and reports of Larry Ellison’s behavior?

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    This is the man who just bought Paramount/CBS and Warner Bros for his son and fired Stephen Colbert.

    If you care about this, you might want to consider whether to ever turn CBS on again.

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          According to Trump math that would be 300% less subscribers!

          Edit: Honestly, I can’t remember if that’s the weird ass math he used or common sense winning out.

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      Consumers: “But I wanna watch this show! I’ll literally die without it, you don’t understaaaaaand!”

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          If piracy actually deprived IP owners of money I’d being torrenting all day every day until they were broke lmao

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            It deprives them of money if people would have paid otherwise. It generally doesn’t though, because most people will just pay up. If people are able to be convinced to pirate instead, they’d lose money from that effect. (It wouldn’t cost them money, but it would lose them money they could have made.)

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              I read it as “torrent isn’t stealing, but if it was id do it even harder because those guys suck”.

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          Right? I know the hard shit is hard and I’m not going to make demands for it, but I’m getting real tired of the fact that I get more hate for telling people they shouldn’t reward the bad behaviour of evil people than the evil people get.

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      He’s another one with Daddy issues. It’s always the Daddy issues.

      Ellison was born on August 17, 1944, in New York City. His mother, Florence Spellman, is Jewish.[6][7] His biological father was an Italian-American United States Army Air Corps pilot. After Ellison contracted pneumonia at the age of nine months, Spellman gave Ellison to Spellman’s aunt and uncle for adoption.[7] Ellison did not meet Spellman again until he was 48.[8]

      Ellison moved with his adoptive parents to Chicago’s South Shore,[9] a middle-class neighborhood with a significant Jewish population. He remembers his adoptive mother, Lillian Spellman Ellison,[10] as warm and loving. He found his adoptive father, Louis Ellison, to be austere, unsupportive, and often distant. A government employee who had made a small fortune in Chicago real estate, only to lose it during the Great Depression, Louis had chosen his last name to honor Ellis Island, his point of entry into the United States.[7]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison

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        Note how it’s the post WW2 jews all hypocriticaly committing the worst attrocities of the 21st century.

        He should know better! The motherfucker! We saved his ungrateful ass!

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          There are two kinds of people: those who want to remove the boot from the neck and those who want to be the one wearing the boot.

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            Is there something that breaks in these people due to living in post WW2 abundance? He has not even been directly victimized by Nazis, but I feel these people have all the entitlement of victims, a.k.a knowing the worst of it, and feeling the need for revenge, while having gone through none of the suffering.

            Like, do they adopt racial theory from hearing about what their predecestors went through, and become supervillians?

            What the fuck is going on with Israel and certain individuals?

            EDIT: I also noticed it’s always the 40’s/50’s boomers in positions of power, actively trying to exterminate humankind.

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    It blows my mind that like 30% of farmers in Arkansas went out of business last year and whats left will lose 40% this year… And they have all of that diesel and fertillizer just sitting there?

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      funny thing its also not being reported on the news so trumpers are likely wont notice anythings wrong. same goes with tourist areas, alot of those places must be closing or lost all thier business.

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        Monsanto and friends know that if you make $500/acre they can charge $490/acre. It’s really that bad for input costs because there’s zero competition, and if there technically is more than one company in a space they just refuse to compete, but technically aren’t a cartel…

        Then you have China not buying soybeans from US farmers over politics (justified imo) and those leopards ate a lot of faces

        Also the rescue programs that were meant to help prevent farmers from folding were frozen under DOGE so a whole bunch of farmers made the necessary investments and expenses to qualify for programs that don’t exist currently, costing them even more money while they’re deep in the red.

        A drought and bad harvests have been hitting the US. Last year’s harvest was already not good and this year’s was weird due to the weather and lack of rain or snowpack.

        The Midwest US is only farmable at its current intensity due to the Ogallala aquifer which is like a gigantic underground fresh water ocean. It’s been pumped dry in many places, and will run out in a few decades.

        I heard of a town hall deciding what to do about pumping that aquifer. The choices were

        A) stop all pumping

        B) reduce pumping to steady state levels. It doesn’t recharge and it doesn’t empty more

        C) depletion in 100 years

        D) depletion in 50 years

        Guess which option was chosen…

        It’s also not because they’re dumb they just can’t be responsible. You go bankrupt if you pump less since you grow less, or would need to grow crops that use less water but net lower yields, lower pay, and it doesn’t pay for your giant 16 row corn header or combine.

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    The Kochs used to be the biggest cancer in our society, but the Ellison’s have taken their spot

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    Does that mean that when a group finds him and straps him to a guillotine we’ll be able to get multi-angled high resolution video for prosperity?

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      Why do you think the global rich list is so busy investing in robotics?

      Before, when things to too far, even the soldiers would revolt.

      Now, all you need is electricity to suppress the population.

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    Remember when China was the villain for doing this? At least the owners aren’t building out a huge network of surveillance centers under the guise of a miracle technology that has zero chance of living up to they hype.