• forrgott@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      You seem to be under some misconception regarding who actually writes our laws. Hint: they’re called lobbyists to get people to ignore the rampant bribery.

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        3 months ago

        Bribery? They are buying a company. That’s it. There isn’t anything special about it. It’s like any other company out there.

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          3 months ago

          And I was talking about the so-called legality of the situation. So, pretty clearly not referring to the headline…

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            3 months ago

            If you’re not talking about the headline, what “situation” are you talking about?

            Honestly, I’m not sure you’re talking about anything.

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              3 months ago

              How about if you can’t follow a conversation, maybe stay out of it? Like, for real, I didn’t know that else to tell you.

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        3 months ago

        Foreign country buying a US corporation. Seems like their investment should be capped at like 15%

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          3 months ago

          US companies by foreign companies all the time, look at the food and drink corporations.

          This is not a new or strange thing

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            3 months ago

            Except many foreign countries have stricter legal frameworks for corporations.

            The “corporations are people” legal fiction means they have rights here. Citizen’s United has fucked this country in profoundly dumb ways.

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          3 months ago

          I’d think we’d be far more concerned about critical resource companies before we got to worrying about gaming companies, but we can’t even do that so I’m not surprised.