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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 260 points 4 months ago
[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 156 points 4 months ago

Fascist fuck

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 125 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 64 points 4 months ago

That's a testable hypothesis.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

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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[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 94 points 4 months ago

And now you know why everyone hates Oracle.

[-] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 87 points 4 months ago

Oh you mean One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison?

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 26 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] turbulentMagma@lemm.ee 80 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 27 points 4 months ago

This is their best behaviour.

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[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 65 points 4 months ago
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[-] dumbass@leminal.space 60 points 4 months ago

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

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] UpperBroccoli 55 points 4 months ago
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[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 54 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 51 points 4 months ago

By all accounts, Larry is a piece of shit.

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 51 points 4 months ago

This guy needs more luigi in his life

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 48 points 4 months ago

Literally 1984.

[-] yuki2501@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago

And by "citizens" you mean slaves.

[-] uriel238 20 points 4 months ago

On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters, and on the wrappings of a cigarette Packet -- [Big Brother was] everywhere. Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed -- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
-- George Orwell, Nineteen-Eighty-Four

[-] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 4 months 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

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 36 points 4 months ago

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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[-] Sho@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

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. 🤔

[-] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 21 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Norgoroth@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

Father Luigi won't you spare us from this clown

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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

'citizens will be on their best behavior'

Compliant. He means compliant.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

He's afraid of the masses.

I wonder why

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[-] hexdream@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 4 months ago

We need another Luigi for this asshole.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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"

[-] hark@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

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

[-] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

A symptom of believing they are better than others.

[-] Mim@lemmy.zip 25 points 4 months ago

One
Raging
Asshole
Called
Larry
Ellison

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 25 points 4 months ago

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

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 months ago

including YOU and other leeches?!

ya. didn't think so.

[-] workerONE@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

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

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

How about using it on the billionaires instead?

[-] alexc@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

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

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

Print licensing agreements for all oracle products and shove them up your ass

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 22 points 4 months ago
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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Remember, remember the 4th of December...

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[-] KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 4 months ago

Ah, the Panopticon. How novel.

[-] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 months ago

So billionaires will pay the right amount of taxes! Oh wait!

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