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\nMark Ruffalo is not staying quiet.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Oscar-nominated actor and activist, who\u2019s currently starring in the box-office smash \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day,\u201d sounded off on his Instagram Story Friday about Paramount Skydance\u2019s pending $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The merger, which is currently being challenged by a dozen state attorney generals, including in California, would reportedly cost 4,500 jobs and also see Paramount Skydance owner David Ellison, a Trump enthusiast (and son of Oracle CEO and Trump megadonor Larry Ellison) in charge of not only the biggest studio in Hollywood but also CNN, which has caused alarm given the MAGA makeover he gave to CBS News. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tRuffalo reposted a video to his Instagram Story of Oracle\u2019s executive vice chair Safra Catz boasting about the company\u2019s efforts to help Israel in the wake of the terror attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, that saw Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups kill 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals with another 251 people being abducted. Catz, who is Israeli, said the following on a panel a few years ago: \u201cThere\u2019s a few things that we did that I really can\u2019t talk about to advance the agenda for the Israeli military. But we have some really profoundly scary technology at Oracle and we wanted to make sure that it was available for the effort. Let\u2019s just say that, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the next slide of his Instagram Story, Ruffalo, who\u2019s been very vocally against the merger as well as Israel\u2019s ongoing war on Gaza that\u2019s claimed the lives of 73,000 Palestinians, posted a passionate message warning against the merger and Oracle\u2019s complicity in \u201cwhat we now have come to see as a genocide\u201d against Palestinians while questioning why \u201cTrump pushed this illegal merger through.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYou can read Ruffalo\u2019s entire message here (typos are his):<\/p>\n

\nThis is the company that Larry Ellison is using to fund his son David\u2019s Warner Bros acquisition.<\/em><\/p>\n

\nThese \u201creally profoundly scary technologies\u201d 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

\nThere is an old saying. \u201cThe way you do one thing is the way you do everything.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\nFrom 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?<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nLarry Ellison will own most of \u201cPara Bros\u201d. Larry is a classic Oligarch. They are crushing workers and consolidating the wealth of the world for their own power and concentrated dominance.<\/em><\/p>\n

\nWe 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

\nThere will be a loss of 4500 direct film making jobs and the loss of another 10k ancillary jobs. Merger like this are almost always bad for workers, consumers, and the industry they tend to dominate. It\u2019s a classic antitrust case.<\/em><\/p>\n

\nIt 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nReally profoundly Scary people.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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