• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Tldr:

    He wants to replace journalism other billionaires control with social media users he controls.

    If you’re mad about this, you should be mad about the current state too

  • nifty@lemmy.world
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    So he’s gonna learn that once you help entrench the powers of authoritarians, they’re not gonna care that you were once useful to them. You will slave away in their labor prisons, like many Chinese billionaires currently do once they stopped being useful. Authoritarians don’t care how much money you have, and people who hate protections which democratic nations confer to them, aka that “woke” shit, will get a wake up call when they find themselves not part of the in-group. Your race, money etc., nothing saves you then.

  • xenomor@lemmy.world
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    What is the causal relationship between sociopaths and billionaires? Does becoming billionaire make you sociopathic, or do sociopaths have an easier time becoming billionaires?

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      As I’ve heard it said. It’s practically impossible to be a billionaire without being a sociopath. The sheer amount of exploitation required to make that kind of money is dumbfounding.

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    4 months ago

    So no moderation on Meta, because that’s evil censorship, but fire everyone in the media and take away their voices, then replace them with people more compliant. That’s what I’m hearing from him?