Billie Eilish drags billionaires in speech with Mark Zuckerberg in the room

We need to protect people like Zuckerburg from being singled out and hated by society. This is why we need to tax his wealth until he's no longer a billionaire. We need to tax him for his own good.

“Who?” - 99.8% of billionaires

that is a very low bar for "dragging"

Billie Eilish SLAMS billionaires!

Ah yes she hit him with the power of talking. There is a chance he won't recover from this for the next 5 seconds.

Good fuck 'em.

Love you all, but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties.

This is just...so weak. I really would have appreciated a "fuck you" and a vague threat of violence, but alas.

Love you all, no hate tho ❤️
Damn what a baddie
love you all
Man, dragging just isn't what it used to I guess
- Jesus, by the headline I expected her to say something along the line of "your money is earned through exploitation of society's most vulnerable people, you wastes of air". Not, "why don't you give some of it away kthxbye <3"
- Blasted! Skewered, even.
- The ghost of Gaddafi is like, “yo WTF, this is what getting dragged is now??”
Playing both sides so she always comes out on top.
- She did reference them as "shorties" though. Which, however often benign it is now, has a condescending tone. I liked that part.

They're never going to financially recover from this.

Oh wait actually nevermind, it turns out they actually made more money while I was writing that sentence than I've made in my entire life. I guess they'll be okay.

I mean, wouldn't they need to financially suffer first to have a recovery? So I agree, they won't financially recover from this non-event. There's nothing to recover from.
- Yeah that was originally the joke, but then halfway through writing it I just got depressed.

But were they eviscerated?

And did they all go to the same cocktail party afterwards?

DESTROYED, even.
The cocktail wieners tasted funny. I think it was the Brazilian rosewood toothpicks soaked in cognac, and covered in gold leaf. Billie had 16!
- Billie Eilish SLAMS Mark Zuckerberg then gets SMASHED at the afterparty
You people bitch when they use the term "slam" but here they are trying something new and you shit on them anyway.
- Turns out that its not the specific few words, but the fact that Zuck wasn't physically dragged/slammed/destroyed/evicerated or even just separated from his hundreds of billions. She actually just said some words.
- It's just the hyperbole. It wouldn't matter which specific word they used if it more closely matched the level of intensity of what actually happened.
  In this instance, even a cliché, overused term like 'jabs' would be fine.

We need more hate towards billionaires

- That's a great halloween costume idea.
- the rich just need some special hugs! specifically on their necks!

Zuckerberg is the fifth-richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $228.3 billion, according to Forbes. In 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan pledged to give away 99 percent of their shares in Meta (Facebook at the time) to philanthropy over their lifetimes. To date, they’ve given away more than $7 billion.”

So in 10 years they've given away 3% of his net worth? Fucking slackers.

he isnt giving away his cash cow, silly people.
Well they need to enjoy every penny until they die. THEN they will give it away. To their own charity that has political influence for their kids.
So they will give 99% away. Which leaves them a billionaire.
- Zuckerberg isn't going to have children

Working 40 hours a week at $20 an hour gets you less than $35k take home a year. Fuck billionaires and millionaires.

When I was growing up, I didn't even have a concept of a billionaire. I remember considering that to be a millionaire you had to be able to spend a million dollars and still have a million left over. In effect, a person wasn't a millionaire until they had reached the second million. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire threw me for a loop because the top prize was only a million dollars.
When I was a young teenager I was quite pleased at saving $300 to buy a new bike because after I bought it, I still had just over a hundred dollars left. It was euphoric to have been a hundredaire for a few days.
Not sure why that popped into my head reading your comment, but there you go.

"drags"

This is why AI is so successful in replacing bloggers but will never even come close to replacing real journalists.

Real journalists? You mean the same people who write "according to a report from xyz organisation". Which report you lazy fucks? I'm looking for the source, not your layman's interpretation.
Journalists (on average) are atrocious at citing their sources, or are being asked to be atrocious, and it has driven me crazy when searching online many times.
"real journalists"
I think those have been extinct for well over a decade now.
All I've seen are smug douchebags jerking themselves off for "saving democracy" by posting mugshots and peddling billionaire propaganda.
It's not like the media has been utterly complicit in boosting trump to where he is now.
- That's a US amurican centered view. Real journalism hasn't died, even in the US, i. e. Jason Schrier, reports important events in the industry like the Rockstar anti union events. Reuters, DW, ICJ, et al continue to do good work. It's not their fault our governments ignore the reporting and let everyone walk scot free after panama papers, et al.
Almost as bad as 'slams'.

More like 'gently chides'. Weak.

According to People, Zuckerberg did not clap after Eilish’s statement — at least according to an eyewitness who was present at the event and spoke with the publication.

"Drags" "slams" She didn't do anything that would affect anything at all. I don't care.

I am a wrestler and we don't use the word slam anywhere near as much as these 'journalists' do.

Real issue is not just owning billions, there is also what you have to do to hold on to that kind of money: suck up to dictators so they let you monopolize tech and crush small competitors.

not news. put this in the tabloid and entertainment communities

i dont get why billie ellish is such a big topic to talk about but also im old af so thats prolly why.

She is a pop star, of course, and therefore commands a sizeable fanbase and attention of the press, and anything she says will have weight.

Is Billie Eilish giving away her money as a millionaire?

Remember the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion. Millionaires are not the problem.
- To be the equivalent of someone making $10k giving $100 to charity, a millionaire would have to give $10k.
  A billionaire would have to give 10 million dollars.
- the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion
  For anyone struggling with the logic on this one, alllow me to beeak it down.
  1 billion minus 1 million equals 999 million, or, for all intents and purposes..
  about a billion.
  On a scale from 0 to 1 billion, 1 million is one tenth of one percent of the distance up from 0. From the perspective of a billionaire, a low end millionaire is indistinguishable from a homeless person.
  While it's cathartic to hate on everyone with money when you're struggling to pay rent and feed your family, billionaires are the problem (and taste like chicken).
- They're both part of the problem, along with their useful dipshits.
- A thousand million
she donates and volunteers with non-profits pretty regularly
- If a person has hundreds of millions of dollars of worth in their pocket, they are not donating enough
Yes. She donated $11.5 million to charity and has a net worth of around $50 million. That's around 20%. If Zuckerburg did even 10%, it would be around 2,000 times more.
- She...has a net worth of around $50 million.
  That's about 260x the median net worth in the US.

Maybe this will motivate Taylor Swift to give more than her equivalent of a nickel to a dying kid.

Meh, try doing it everyday and make a real difference

“Especially in our country”? Fuck outta here.