• vinyl@lemmy.world
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    Then let’s surveil Larry himself for a starter. Doesn’t seem like he was on his best behavior for his whole life

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    7 hours ago

    The Kochs used to be the biggest cancer in our society, but the Ellison’s have taken their spot

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    the bible is not enough anymore. we need a new god which is always watching us.

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    It blows my mind that like 30% of farmers in Arkansas went out of business last year and whats left will lose 40% this year… And they have all of that diesel and fertillizer just sitting there?

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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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      Please do not disparage those of us with obesity by comparing us to these fucks

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        As a medically morbidly obese guy, I have absolutely zero issues with invoking obesity as an apt technical description of the unhealthy and damaging consequences resultant of the tolerance of their existence.

        Those who qualify to be diagnosed as medically obese typically don’t have a readily available remedy for their condition, but the financially obese can legitimately be held solely responsible for their rehabilitation.

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          10 hours ago

          Okay, you don’t speak for all of us. People like me really don’t like it, and think it contributes harm.

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            You don’t speak for all of us either, I was obese, I have since managed to (thanks to the wonders of being poor and having a physical job) lose a lot of the weight.

            I was not offended by someone calling what was once commonly known as a “Fat cat” (a rich person) financially obese, because it’s accurate and easily conveys the meaning and message, that these billionaires actively choose to keep hoarding money despite knowing that they couldn’t spend it in their lifetimes without buying countries (or islands ahem North Fox Island / LSJ)

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            you are confusing unhealthy obesity of people, with financial obesity/bloat. they arnt even describing people at all. stop trying the “body positivity hting”

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            9 hours ago

            My original post never even referred to you, unless you’re also morbidly wealthy.

            Manufacturing imaginary attacks similarly manifests harms to legitimate discourse.

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    15 hours ago

    “See, it’s different from the Chinese social credit system. That one is based upon doing things that are good for society. This one is around doing things that are good for shareholders/capitalism. That makes this one okay.”

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    To paraphrase the philosopher Carmela Soprano, “You know, Larryy, it’s a multiple-choice thing with you. ‘Cause I can’t tell if you’re old-fashioned, you’re paranoid, or just a fucking asshole.”