Paramount has come out swinging against a Friday screed from Mark Ruffalo, in which the award-winning actor accused moguls David and Larry Ellison of “powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world.”

A spokesperson for the David Ellison-run enterprise said the company is “troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute. Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe. This doesn’t deserve a response in kind — and to be clear, we don’t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone.”

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[–] 32 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

Larry Ellison is a fanatical Zionist and one of the biggest donors to the IDF. He now owns Paramount, CBS and US Tiktok.

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  • [–] 27 points 11 hours ago* (2 children)

    Gal Gadot is literally an IOF member and a propaganda piece, she is literally captain Israel

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  • [–] 8 points 9 hours ago

    Fuck Paramount. Nobody should ever give them money again.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Cue Paramount gif from The Rehearsal

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  • [–] 68 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

    Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far...

    Is this written by an LLM? Because whenever I hear "it's not just this, it's that" now, I think LLM.

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  • [–] 25 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    Nothing says, "I don't give a shit about you," like asking an LLM to respond for you. It's all just so over the giving top, it beggars belief.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago

    I was talking to this woman I was interested in. I related to her a mini existential crisis I was having because of climate change. She used AI to summarize why I shouldn't be so worried, and sent it to me. I just stared blankly at the obviously AI driven text for minutes before asking, "Did you... Did you come up with all that off the top of your head?"

    mind boggling.

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  • [–] 14 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

    I just don't believe any human would put out a statement with an em dash in 2026. It's the thing

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    My hyperbolic analogy is a swastika. Sure, the swastika had been in use for 10,000 years before Germany existed....but a company probably isn't putting one on their letter head in 2026.

    It's as iconic for AI slop as It's Not X, It's Y

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  • [–] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    i started using them because of ai. lol

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  • [–] 45 points 15 hours ago

    It's ANTI SEMETIC to LIKE Hitler! KILL people in Concentration Camps! HEIL Hitler! NOT like Corporate Mergers!

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  • [–] 65 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    we don’t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone, but murdering large groups of innocent people is ok by us.

    FTFY

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  • [–] 15 points 13 hours ago

    When you use "a bridge too far," you are tying people to railroad tracks. Or kicking indigenous people off their land in modern times. 6 in one half a dozen in the other.

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  • [–] 32 points 16 hours ago

    Too big to fail is also too big to care.

    You can tell when they get too big because they stop caring.

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  • [–] 15 points 14 hours ago

    I get three or four emails a week from Comcast asking me to take advantage of the free Paramount+ subscription that apparently comes with my internet. They're trying to force it so much.

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  • [–] 11 points 16 hours ago

    @geneva_convenience Shut the frack up Paramaount!

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