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[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 197 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Oprah is a fkn blight on our country. She burdened us with dr oz and dr phil, two absolute pieces of shit.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Do we know if Oprah is one too? I don't know much about her. But it seems shes been awfully close to a lot of horrible people

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 71 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Behind the bastards did a couple episodes on her.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 43 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

Well that kind of answers that.

[–] RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 34 points 2 weeks ago

She's a monster enabler and opportunist. Not sure she's as horrible, but she definitely has narcissistic qualities.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

That's not really the vibe I've gotten from her. I mean she has her fingers in a lot of horrific pies. Simply a blight unto the world. I've heard her called the mother of demons and frankly not far off. But from everything I've seen (so far) it's not that she's personally involved in any of this, it's just that she didn't give a shit. She wanted the ratings. She wanted the story. She didn't care if the story was true. She didn't care if the story had horrible consequences. She didn't care if people got hurt. She didn't care if her fans were literally handed to a rapist because of her stories. All she cared about was moving those dials and everything else was immaterial to her . She just doesn't give a fuck. Which might be worse. I don't know.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

At some point, the realization kicks in that what you're doing is causing harm, no matter how far down the road. When you decide to keep going anyway, that's your moment of sitting at the table with the nazis. Doesn't matter if you're totally removed from the evil doings, you're helping, and you know you're helping. And you're okay with it.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

She may never get there because she doesn't support the monsters just their work. She separates the output from the creator and uses that gap between celebrating a book/movie/etc from the terrible person responsible for it. In her mind she isn't promoting someone awful. She must be willingly blind to what's happening because of the celebrities she promotes.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That the definition of a horrible person. Most of these people don't, for example, rape children because they're evil. They do it because it makes them feel powerful, and they don't care about the harm it does. Rarely are there people who's actions are actually inspired by doing harm. It's much more common for it to be done for their personal benefit and not giving a fuck about what happens to others.

The other common form of evil is the banal kind. People who are just doing what they're told, not questioning it. They're told their doing things that are great for their nation/society, but they have horrible consequences for many people. They aren't doing it out of malice, but out of ignorance or complacency.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Behind the Bastards did some episodes on her. Might be relavent. Link to part 1

https://youtu.be/_K-90PIkbv8

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

oh yea i remember some of the "poor" guests on her show complain that the cars she gave away were to expensive to afford(insurance, maintanance wise), oprah benefitted from that, either through have less taxes, or something. she likely planned it too.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago

When she gave away those cars, she gave every one of those people a multi-thousand dollar tax debt that had to be paid on that car. If it was a $30,000 car, then she just saddled each of those audience members with a $10,000 tax bill.

All she really did was force an audience of suckers to buy a sponsor's expensive new car, not of their choice, at a steep discount, as an advertisement.

I go to the Oprah Show, and walk out with an expensive car I don't want, and can't afford, but better pay for or I can go to jail. Thanks Oprah.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

maybe not, but she platformed all these people either on thier show, or through other means. shes an enabler/complicit at best.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Dr Oz and Dr Phil are because of Oprah

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

She also platformed John of God, a South American mass rapist.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh shit I forgot about this one. Yeah that was pretty bad.

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Not to mention Oprah

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Jenny McCarthy

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 184 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

There does not exist a good person who is also a billionaire.

Yes, they can do good things. Mark Cuban has done some good things, but a good person would feel burdened by having too much money and would be compelled to use it to help others. I think you can be a good person and still want a super-easy life for yourself, but a billion dollars is way more than you need to fulfill that goal.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 68 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Billionaires are symptoms of a failed economic system. Under the current system you don't become a billionaire by doing good things.

There are no good people who are billionaires. Stop looking for excuses to make them good people.

[–] cloudskater@pawb.social 14 points 2 weeks ago

That's literally their first sentence. How are they saying billionaires are good people?

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As much as he has promoted more consumer value and rights, there's still corporate meddling bullshit in Steam. I still worry for when he does die/retire how Steam will change.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I hope when he dies his fleet of superyachts is turned into a humanitarian project.

Something useful with them. There's an organized list of billionaires from first to last, I'd put Gabe nearer the bottom with the guy who owns Laika Studios LLC.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They're already equipped and used for environmental research. It's probably just greenwashing, but it's a hell of a lot more than other billionaires have bothered with.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. Definitely.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking what? Who was doing that?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 20 points 2 weeks ago

she did come from rags to riches, but once you reach past 100mil you are disconnected.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you mean like Melinda Gates and MacKenzie Scott?

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If you gave the goodest person in the world a billion dollars, you'd technically have a good person who was a billionaire, so my declaration would be wrong. But only for as long as it takes them to get rid of it.

I don't know about Melinda Gates (literally haven't heard anything), but MacKenzie Scott does seem to be burdened by the money at least somewhat and has been shoveling it away.

But if you compare, JK Rowling couldn't bear being a billionaire, and it turns out that she's a world-class asshole. Maybe if you're MacKenzie Scott rich, it's just hard to give the money away quickly, and we'll see her end up with less than a billion however long that takes. Otherwise, I think she's got to be at least as much of an asshole as Rowling.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know either of them personally, but I have met one of them. They seemed like a good person, if not a little naive and/or dumb to the world around them. I do agree with most of your points though.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago
[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There was this young heir in the news in Austria last year who inherited stupid amounts of money and straight away said "ok lemme just give away most of this right away" and there was a whole thing about a commission having to be established to determine where money went and all that so it seems it might be somewhat difficult but I still think it's a bad excuse.

[–] Biffsbraincell@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly. They didn't make the billions. You can't do that morally. They got it in a sudden payoff, and both seem to be working on reversing the issue, though not as fast as I feel they should. If they don't continue to speedily reverse of the issue of them having billions, then I would say no they are not moral people, they are actually horrible disgusting people, just because of the amount of lives they could save and good they could do with that money, and instead choosing the hoard it.

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 72 points 2 weeks ago

I will cherish always the day Oprah tried to get the Olympics in Chicago and the city showed up and told her to her face in protest FUCK YOU.

I'm not sure if she ever been back.

Chicagoans loath Oprah with a passion.

This cunt gave the antivax idiots a platform.

FUCK OPRAH!

[–] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Something something school for girls in Africa something something sexual assault allegations.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3819485&page=1

From 2009

[–] lapping6596@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I just read that story, it seems like she did everything right? Believed the victims, praising them for coming forward, and taking action to make it easier for kids to come forward should something like this occur again.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

I don't really follow Oprah but about a year or so ago she burst upon the scene again in what seemed like a desperate attempt to sell "The Colour Purple" Broadway stage tickets. I wonder if that run was successful?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Feel like that was the point they were making.