• Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        Most people have a price. Some people have principles and values, even if they get offered $1b (or some other crazy number). Those people are very rare, though, and usually aren’t in positions of power.

      • Vanon@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yes. The FTC and other government agencies will lose all important cases against big businesses. Or they will be stripped of any power that matters. Our completely legitimate supreme court will be happy to rule their powers unconstitutional. (M*** is gunning for the SEC now.) Or we find ourselves with a president that instantly installs stooges with no intent on doing their job (like T****'s dog Mulvaney and CFPB).

        I’m still proud that we have people like Khan willing to spend their (life)time fighting against obvious wrongs, or even just trying to enforce our laws against oligarchs. I just think any wins are temporary miracles until the cancer is obliterated. (At the polls!?)

      • Shikadi@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        vanontom’s reply is great. I’m just going to add that every government agency fighting against the merger has lost, because money is power. You just can’t blame the FCC on this one, only the Republicans that love to strip its power, because they’re anti regulation except when those regulations benefit them.