• @[email protected]
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    16 minutes ago

    Billionaire here.

    The real problem is the same problem every rich person has: once you surround yourself with yes-men, you lose contact with reality.

    Now that I control the zeitgeist through media messaging, I have no idea what’s going on.

    I try to stay out of my own fart cloud with psychedelic drugs, but really there’s no substitute for real struggle in terms of ennobling one’s soul.

    Just compare the beauty of a tiger to the awkward lines of a pug. As an extremely rich person, the only thing I have to fight are my own demons, and nobody can relate to those.

  • @thawed_caveman
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    32 hours ago

    All of my media companies just say what i want on their own, the fact that i own them is on the back of their minds and makes them self-censor without me needing to say anything. I just hire a manager that i know agrees with my opinions, he then proceeds to hire journalists that agree with our opinions, and they proceed to do what looks like propaganda without anyone needing to be told to do it.

    I don’t tell my media companies what to report because there’s no need to, and if i did then there would be a paper trail.

  • @[email protected]
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    167 hours ago

    I have many billions. Some would say the most billions. The billions I have are the best billions, everyone agrees.

    Even though I have the best billions, these journalists, nasty people, they attack me. Just because of my billions, can you believe it?

    So anyway, I say who cares what they say, we just need to fight like hell and take back our country ✊

  • @[email protected]
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    178 hours ago

    Paying them. You have no idea how entitled some of these “news casters” are! They’re just wannabe actors that demand higher salaries because “I’m the face of your network!” Just shut up and talk, make me money!

    • @[email protected]
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      36 hours ago

      They don’t make them money, actually quite the opposite. They need them to be the tool throught which they can avoid actual changes that would reduce their money, and thus, in a political system in which you can buy cough I mean “lobby” cough politicians, their power.

  • @farcaster
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    288 hours ago

    Dealing with 6 different media companies is exhausting. You have no idea. When they finally merge my staff will only need to pay one of them. More time for everyone to play golf. Win-win.

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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      38 hours ago

      Just install puppets to run each network. You get the money and reputation cleaning, they do the work of making other people do the work. And they take the blame if anything goes wrong, so I still come off looking ok.

      And by having “multiple” companies, I can control them all better. If the figurehead of one does anything I disagree with I can use another media brand to launder the kompromat I have on said figurehead. They can never be seen in public again and I come of smelling like roses.

      • Zerlyna
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        48 hours ago

        No need for puppets! Let AI do the work. Fake news for free!

        • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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          48 hours ago

          So far AI can’t be canceled though. You need cancelable minions to act as a pressure valve - letting the poors rage about your evil without any of the rage coming your direction.

      • bizarroland
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        45 hours ago

        The only capitalization a billionaire has time for is the capitalization of your time and labor to increase their portfolio.

      • CRUMBGRABBER
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        35 hours ago

        i AM THE BEST! i KNOW these pEOPLE. TERRIFIC! uP IN EVERY POLL!!!

      • @[email protected]
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        148 hours ago

        That’s not capslock - an executive assistant artisanally capitalized each of those letters individually.

        • skulblaka
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          57 hours ago

          And it costs the taxpayers 30 grand for every line of text

  • @[email protected]
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    78 hours ago

    Do you know how hard it is to transition the FB users to new federated systems in order to extend/embrace/extinguish them?

  • @Hobbes_Dent
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    Having to pay attention to the “news”.

    • ivanafterall 🌟
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      35 hours ago

      Fellow billionaire media magnate here: you’re doing it wrong. You make the news what you want it to be! Isn’t that why we do this, at all!?

      • @Hobbes_Dent
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        24 hours ago

        Hello fellow billionaire friend of the worker and free speech!

        But if I don’t read “the news”, how will I know what to order my “journalists” to bury?

  • @[email protected]
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    47 hours ago

    It’s not quite effective enough. So far we’ve only been able to really rile up and direct about 30% of the country.

    The proles are so fucking annoying sometimes.