• Jo Miran@lemmy.mlOPM
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    14 days ago

    For sure but Thiel, Musk and the rest of the silicon valley are nowhere near as scary as Ellison. They are loud and clumsy buffoons. Even now there’s very little coverage putting a spotlight on Ellison’s slow and quiet takeover of American media, even though he’s the second richest person on the planet.

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      14 days ago

      100%. Musk is obviously known by everyone at this point. Thiel tries to fly under the radar but is increasingly well known. Ellison is basically unknown outside of tech nerds and people who are terminally doom scrolling

    • Oyu F'ka@mander.xyz
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      From what I’ve read, Thiel is possibly the most dangerous of them all - in a nutshell, he’s a fucking psycho, working in the shadows.

      He’s currently promoting the dangers of the anti-christ coming to disrupt what he considers technological ‘progress’…he’s even suggested Greta Thunberg is the anti-christ!

      That might sound mad, but I suspect there is method in his madness.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlOPM
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        I am less afraid of a raving lunatic than I am a highly intelligent, determined, ruthless and calculating son of a removed. Thiel’s Palantir is dangerous but Oracle is far more pervasive.

        The right answer is to drop them both into the volcano.