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    We need to protect people like Zuckerburg from being singled out and hated by society. This is why we need to tax his wealth until he’s no longer a billionaire. We need to tax him for his own good.

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    Ah yes she hit him with the power of talking. There is a chance he won’t recover from this for the next 5 seconds.

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    Love you all, but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties.

    This is just…so weak. I really would have appreciated a “fuck you” and a vague threat of violence, but alas.

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    They’re never going to financially recover from this.

    Oh wait actually nevermind, it turns out they actually made more money while I was writing that sentence than I’ve made in my entire life. I guess they’ll be okay.

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      I mean, wouldn’t they need to financially suffer first to have a recovery? So I agree, they won’t financially recover from this non-event. There’s nothing to recover from.

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        Yeah that was originally the joke, but then halfway through writing it I just got depressed.

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    Zuckerberg is the fifth-richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $228.3 billion, according to Forbes. In 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan pledged to give away 99 percent of their shares in Meta (Facebook at the time) to philanthropy over their lifetimes. To date, they’ve given away more than $7 billion.”

    So in 10 years they’ve given away 3% of his net worth? Fucking slackers.

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      Well they need to enjoy every penny until they die. THEN they will give it away. To their own charity that has political influence for their kids.

      So they will give 99% away. Which leaves them a billionaire.

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            Are you talking about the clones of himself he keeps in the cloning vats in the basement of the META building or the human children he adopted to seem more human?

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                because it’s the internet, 70% of the shit on it is porn, 35% is shitposting, ragebait, AI trite, and scams, and the other 5% is actual useful content. oh no, are you gonna mark this on my permanent record? what ever will I do after getting called out for making an incorrect statement about one of the most evil lunatics in the world?

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                  In my experience on the internet, people who just have to loudly tell you how much they don’t care are the ones that care the most.

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      You people bitch when they use the term “slam” but here they are trying something new and you shit on them anyway.

      • Turns out that its not the specific few words, but the fact that Zuck wasn’t physically dragged/slammed/destroyed/evicerated or even just separated from his hundreds of billions. She actually just said some words.

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        It’s just the hyperbole. It wouldn’t matter which specific word they used if it more closely matched the level of intensity of what actually happened.

        In this instance, even a cliché, overused term like ‘jabs’ would be fine.

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      DESTROYED, even.

      The cocktail wieners tasted funny. I think it was the Brazilian rosewood toothpicks soaked in cognac, and covered in gold leaf. Billie had 16!

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    “drags”

    This is why AI is so successful in replacing bloggers but will never even come close to replacing real journalists.

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      “real journalists”

      I think those have been extinct for well over a decade now.

      All I’ve seen are smug douchebags jerking themselves off for “saving democracy” by posting mugshots and peddling billionaire propaganda.

      It’s not like the media has been utterly complicit in boosting trump to where he is now.

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        That’s a US amurican centered view. Real journalism hasn’t died, even in the US, i. e. Jason Schrier, reports important events in the industry like the Rockstar anti union events. Reuters, DW, ICJ, et al continue to do good work. It’s not their fault our governments ignore the reporting and let everyone walk scot free after panama papers, et al.

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    Working 40 hours a week at $20 an hour gets you less than $35k take home a year. Fuck billionaires and millionaires.

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      When I was growing up, I didn’t even have a concept of a billionaire. I remember considering that to be a millionaire you had to be able to spend a million dollars and still have a million left over. In effect, a person wasn’t a millionaire until they had reached the second million. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire threw me for a loop because the top prize was only a million dollars.

      When I was a young teenager I was quite pleased at saving $300 to buy a new bike because after I bought it, I still had just over a hundred dollars left. It was euphoric to have been a hundredaire for a few days.

      Not sure why that popped into my head reading your comment, but there you go.

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    According to People, Zuckerberg did not clap after Eilish’s statement — at least according to an eyewitness who was present at the event and spoke with the publication.