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@garbados It's actually hard to find the original text of Ruffalo's statement, since it was on an Instagram story, and he let it expire. Here's a transcript:
https://www.avclub.com/paramount-accuses-mark-ruffalo-antisemitic-rhetoric-oracle-ellison-merger
'This is the company that Larry Ellison is using to fund his son David’s Warner Bros acquisition. These “really profoundly scary technologies” will most likely be merged into one of the largest media conglomerates in the world and one day used on you. Look how she revels in what we now have come to see as a genocide, which was built on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle. There is an old saying. “The way you do one thing is the way you do everything.” [...]'
'[...] From one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world. Why has Trump pushed this illegal merger through? Larry Ellison will own most of “Para Bros.” Larry is a classic Oligarch. They are crushing workers and consolidating the wealth of the world for their own power and concentrated dominance. [...]'
'[...] We have a chance to stop this. There are 12 state Attorneys General suing to block this merger. It will be catastrophic for our film industry. There will be a loss of 4500 direct film making jobs and the loss of another 10k ancillary jobs. Mergers like this are almost always bad for workers, consumers, and the industry they tend to dominate. It’s a classic antitrust case. It will hike up the cost of cable and flatten out competition. [...]'
'[...] This means less choice for our audiences. It also concentrates an enormous amount of creative control to companies that say and do things like this strange woman from Oracle. Really profoundly Scary people.'
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