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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 271 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 164 points 1 month ago

Fascist fuck

[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hypothetically, if Larry was eaten, would other billionaires be on their best behavior and stop positing fascist control mechanisms?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a testable hypothesis.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You go right ahead. I'm not eating any of those assholes. They're only held together by hatred and bitterness. I'd assume the taste would be influenced by that.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And now you know why everyone hates Oracle.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh you mean One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Not heard that before, and I'm old. 🤣😂

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We don't need citizens to be on their best behavior, we need millionaires and billionaires to be on their best behavior.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is their best behaviour.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dude looks like he's one line of coke away from a heart attack...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

He looks like Tim Allen got in a fight with a hornet nest

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yeah, and a simple wooden construction with a movable metal blade keeps billionaires on their best behaviour. Or at least it did in the 18th century.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago

This guy needs more luigi in his life

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (6 children)

By all accounts, Larry is a piece of shit.

[–] tempest 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle.

— Brian Cantrill

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

Literally 1984.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This man is dangerous and needs to go away immediately.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (4 children)

He can keep dreaming. People are angry and will fucking eat him alive. I can feel the anger in the air.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But...we got video evidence of someone already having murdered a ceo. It didn't seem to stop the ceo from getting shot tho, remarkable. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Video surveillance doesn't stop crime, it only records it...

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to think I was heading toward abject poverty as our bs systems were going into more bs but now Im getting more hopeful. Maybe I will be dead or in prison.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And by "citizens" you mean slaves.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (4 children)

'citizens will be on their best behavior'

Compliant. He means compliant.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

He's afraid of the masses.

I wonder why

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison.

You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think "oh, the lawnmower hates me" – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

Sounds like someones vying for next in line.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

We need another Luigi for this asshole.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

they just can't help saying the quiet part out loud

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Father Luigi won't you spare us from this clown

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Somebody read or watched 1984 and thought that's a wonderful idea. Or is he just trying to cozy up to the Chinese government? Or the drugs long term effects are kicking in? Who knows.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

These people are fundamentally narcissistic and think they personally know not only how the world works, but also how it ought to work. You can see the somewhat innocent version of that in Apple's "you're holding it wrong" fiasco.

That kind of arrogance is kind of normal if you're a very intelligent teenager, since most of the people around you are indeed less intelligent than you, but most people get their reality check pretty soon and grow up. Business ghouls like Larry, however, never got their reality check. They managed to become successful early in life and still operate under that childish mindset.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That dude was never on his best behavior. And now he wants to punish anyone that is going to out live him.

it is an attitude that happens to many rich old people; how dare you live past them and enjoy it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (6 children)

There's a different solution that can ensure billionaires will be on their best behavior.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

what he really means is that "me and my buddies are fucking everyone else and we are afraid that there will be retaliation so we need mass surveillance"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

A symptom of believing they are better than others.

[–] phoenixz 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Larry Ellison says that North Korea and China are great countries to live in

You first, and then we'll lock the door behind you, you mother fucker

Pardon my French, but these scum of the earth should rot in hell as far as I am concerned. They are a literal cancer for this world

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Larry I am sure you will be on your best behavior as well.

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[–] adarza 26 points 1 month ago

including YOU and other leeches?!

ya. didn't think so.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

He's one of the owners of X, he and like 20 other people invested with Musk

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

One
Raging
Asshole
Called
Larry
Ellison

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How about using it on the billionaires instead?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Larry and his ultra-rich megawank friends can all go first and show us the way

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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