• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    Classic backtrack by a wholesale narcissist, Marie Antoinette wannabe, whose voicing of their unfiltered thoughts have damaged their profit outlook.

    Minerals Council of Australia chairman Andrew Michelmore - had defended him. “Employees have got used to earning the same amount of money but not putting in the same hours”

    “We destroyed economic mobility, the social contract, and the planet. Pray we don’t destroy it any further”

    I expect no less from the oligarchy, especially a fossil fuel oligarch. Remember, these are the sociopaths who own our lives, from corporations to regulators and governments, and are accelerating the destruction of our planet.

    They are telling you what they think of the 99+%. You are not a person. You are cattle to fuel their wealth until you can be replaced or discarded for profit. You only exist to generate their wealth and fuel their excess to greater heights. Their only god is greed. They will not think twice about letting you die if it means more resources and power for themselves; many of them would choose to pull the trigger on mass murder than ever redistributing their wealth.

    Believe them when they tell you who they are.

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      Marie Antoinette was way more of a sympathetic character than this asshole. At least in her case you could explain it away with her being young and sheltered.

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        Also, the “let them eat cake” line was said by someone else and then falsely attributed to her after her execution.

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    That wasn’t an apology. He believes people are slaves, the only thing he regrets is getting caught on video saying it out loud.

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    “Sorry all you poors don’t like what I said about how you’re getting a little uppity, and you deserve to be homeless if you don’t like the pittance I offer you.” Sure bud, I totally believe you’re super duper sorry about being a complete piece of shit. After all, a couple of days is surely enough time to totally reevaluate your worldview and grow the part of the brain that creates empathy.

    Fuck this guy. I hope he gets eaten by a dropbear.

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      Got one better… take this choad and Money Monster Jim Cramer, shove them in a industrial washing machine with a few dozen bowling balls and put it on ‘gentle cycle’. A few hours kissing Bakelite might give these two what they surely lack, empathy for the suffering of others

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    Hes not sorry for what he said. Hes sorry that it went viral and people called him out.

    Fuck this guy.

    Seasick Steve has a lyric in the song “Last Po’ Man” where he says “Never met a rich man that I liked” and the more I read about billionaires, the more it seems he was right lol.

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      I blame the help, they feed this man, they protect this man while he sleeps, they raise his offspring, theirs is the corruption the keeps this system in place.

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    He need to have “I am a rich asshole” embossed on diamond plate and riveted to his freaking forehead

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    I guess someone got uncomfortably close to him and told him in no uncertain words what would/could happen to him and no amount of €€€ would protect him if he didn’t cut it out