Wow, that is one punchable face right there!!!
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I would suggest we give him the 3,000 acres of Lana'i he doesn't own, so the entire island belongs to him, then strand him there forever.
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“Citizens” 🙄 Not every person is a citizen; I’ve got a pet peeve about this.
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Did AI trim that beard for him?
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. - Ursula K Le Guin
I have been hating this man's guts since the mid 90's and somehow it never lets off. Most hateful people manage to become a little bit more likeable as they age. Even this disgusting piece of human refuse Bill Gates might pass for a somewhat okay human being if you wilfully overlook why he truly does philanthropy.
But Larry Ellison? Hell no. He never changes. he's just consistently the worst year after year, decade after decade.
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Was he on that island discussing whether the billionaires could keep their security detail loyal with shock collars?
Ellison is the world's sixth-richest man with a net worth of $157 billion, according to Bloomberg.
They are really concerned when people tire of their children dying from hunger and easily treatable diseases, we'll be coming for them. But rather than give up an iota of the money generations can never spend for our ecology and things people need to live, they resort to things like shock collars and surveillance states.
This dude can shove that stupid boat up his ass
Hear hear!
People can rise up at any time and start destroying the machines that guard them.
It's not bad enough yet but at some point, people won't accept it anymore. Probably when they have almost nothing left to fight for.
He looks like a perfectly roasted turkey 🦃 🍗 …
Ok, let’s do a test run on you
And a fueled bottle can keep billionaires in check.
How does this square with the whole libertarian bend?
He doesn't have to square it because consistency is for poor people.
The golden rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."
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Fuck you, no I won’t
Larry "privacy is dead, get over it" Ellison.
And I thought satire was dead.
#TaxTheRich
Dude is crying for a guillotine. Someone tell this asshole movies aren't real life events. lmao
Owner of Cloud company that sells AI services tells governments that AI-powered surveillance is good.
Those are not citizens. This is not a democracy.
You need to pretend you live in a democracy or the administrators will take away the illusion.
You really can't overstate this plain truth, and people will still cling to the illusion of freedom.
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But they're will be no cameras in his torture dungeon, of course.
Lmg, he'll be exempt from this surveillance along with all his rich ass-hole buddies
Subjugating the working class majority is literally the whole point of establishing a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
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And I guarantee that billionaire Larry Ellison blithely believes that he'll be exempt - that all of this surveillance will just be used against the little people. And he's almost certainly right.
He will be exempt. The areas that he lives in and the things that he does will not be tagged as "criminal" on the data system that he has the contract to administer.
That's always how these systems work. You don't worry about getting dragged into the Saudi Consulate and bonesawed to death by intelligence officers when you're MBS, because you're the boss and the guy getting bonesawed is your employee.
For the same reason, you don't worry about getting spied on when you're the one who owns and operates the big surveillance infrastructure because it exists for your benefit.
Just look at Musk to see someone whose wealth entirely excuses his behavior. It ain’t hypothetical in the slightest.
He’s voicing what every billionaire and government official already thinks. Call me pessimist but I believe it’s unavoidable. VPNs are seen as “tools to overcome government bans to access illegal websites” in so many countries, hence getting banned. Access to mainstream websites also getting harder and harder when on VPN. People hosting Tor exit nodes are living in fear of police raids.
Even with some little amount of privacy protecting measures, websites start to act strangely or do not work, and the amount of websites like this increases every day. As protecting our privacy becomes a bigger and bigger effort, more people will give up, strengthening the arguments against it. Eventually we’ll hit big brother levels.
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