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Optional@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Larry Ellison Just Quietly Became the Most Powerful Man in America

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Larry Ellison Just Quietly Became the Most Powerful Man in America

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With the Paramount-Skydance merger approved by the FCC, Larry Ellison just showed the world who is the real shot caller in the White House.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1130528

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    Billionaires and democracy cannot coexist, which means billionaires must not be allowed to exist. Whether through taxation or some other means.

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      Ah yes, the mysterious, but oft talked about “other means.”

      My preferred method actually.

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        Sure. Everyone loves the gun until they live in it.

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    The elder Ellison is covering most of the cash to close the Skydance-Paramount merger, which will give him significant control over the new company and a chance to carry out, as he detailed in federal filings, a wholesale transformation of CBS in his vision—including broadcasts of complimentary PSAs for Trump administration initiatives.

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      How soon before we get a Star Trek series about evil immigrant sex-changing aliens invading the Federation with the help of liberal, deep-state elites?

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        Oh shit he owns Star Trek.

        Motherfuck.

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    All my homies hate Oracle.

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      Hell yeah they do.

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    Makes sense that a giant shithead is supporting another giant shithead.

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      Kakistocracy

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    I wonder what he thinks about South Park.

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      Probably likes it. Makes him money.

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