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Billionaire Marc Benioff apologizes for saying troops should be deployed to San Francisco
(www.theguardian.com)
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Benioff’s pro-Fuckhead remarks also suggested a sharp turn from his previous support of liberal policies. During Fuckhead’s first administration, he was outspoken about wealth inequality, backing a 2018 local ballot measure to tax large corporations in San Francisco to increase funding for homeless services. He called out other billionaires for “hoarding” their wealth in a Guardian interview at the time and criticized opponents of the measure, saying: “You’re either for the homeless or you’re for yourself.”
The CEO mostly lives in Hawaii now, according to the New York Times.
Something about that entire section made me laugh.
Your software still sucks
Fire the fascist.
He's sorry everyone knows what a cunt he is. Not for what he said.
Exactly. His snivelling is abhorrent, what trash
All billionaires should be killed.
To shreds you say?
What about the billionaire simps?
One step at a time
Gotta be a managed process, though. A lot of what they do IS superfluous. But there will be some services or industries they "own" so we'll have to account for and redistribute that.
Whatever they own can be split up or turned into a nonprofit.
Publicly traded companies don’t need to exist anymore. We can just close that market. Where we’re going we don’t need capitalism!
Eat a dick fascist trash.
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1232564250/billionaire-benioff-buys-hawaii-land-salesforce
No secret where he's at.
Hard to put the mask back on.
Salesforce.com if you'd like to avoid it like the plague and make using it tantamount to proudly driving a cybertruck that would be cool
I would if I could, and I can guarantee that 99.9% of its users are in the same boat - if not for this, then for some other pre-existing grievance with their, uh, "software" that we're all forced to use.
Unless, by "users", you meant entire businesses who pay for their services, and not actual individual humans. In that case, carry on, and good luck.
Oooh idea for resistance from corporate salarymen like me
T-shirt that says "salesforce.com" but with both S's stylized as the Nazi SS angular shapes
Unfortunately, as a b2b company it's difficult to directly punish Salesforce for this.
Why should that have ANY bearing on his actual commitment, which he honestly expressed, before?
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