Comment by idontwantthis
8 hours ago
Next time someone says both sides are the same, remind them about this.
Democrats brought suit against an obvious monopoly over the most unifying and joyful aspect of human existence (Music), and Republicans scuttled it so brazenly, you have to assume that Trump was bribed.
The current administration is squishy-soft on white collar crime.
(The United States Department of Justice is mostly to handle white-collar crime. Most DOJ authority comes from the Federal power to regulate interstate commerce. Violent crime is primarily a state matter. Then came the ICE overexpansion.)
> squishy-soft on white collar crime.
I disagree. They actively support it in a hard core way. Squishy soft imply not wanting it but being weak. They are not weak, they love it.
It sounds to me like you and parent poster are in agreement in all but wording.
But okay. Let's rephrase: "The current administration is hard for white collar crime."
Republicans will be happy about this because owning the libs is all they care about, and only whiny liberals listen to concerts in their worldview.
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You're right. 0 is innumerable.
> If Biden had bragged about what Khan, Kanter, etc. were doing, instead of hiding it in embarrassment (and letting other parts of his admin sabotage it), he would have been popular.
lol
that is a remarkable take
you think far too highly of the American public to think they have anything close to this sophisticated (or aware) of a view of antitrust!
You clearly have a deluded magasphere view of reality. I recommend changing the channel.
Trump who? All discourse on YC now pretends he doesn't exist, all the tech bros didn't so loudly campaign for him, nor does he make any statements. Bad news? Click flag and don't confront your actions!
This argument seems asinine. We've had 12 of the last 24 years with democrat presidents or majority..and how many monopolies have been broken up in that time span? zero. Democrats do push more anti merger antics than Republicans... but come on. there aren't even two sides. its money vs not money and anyone still buying into the reality show of our political system is deluded.
These cases take upwards of 10 years to resolve. Modern large corporations generate tons and tons of paper documentation which must be ingested and indexed and analyzed to produce the legal case. This takes a lot of resources and time to get right. And meanwhile the corporate legal team is making motions and arguments in court as you're doing discovery. What's asinine is expecting these cases to get resolved within a year. Whether the anticipated ruling is in favor of the DOJ or not, the case needs to be properly adjudicated before the court and I don't see that taking less than a few years to be fair. The flip side of monopoly prosecution is that a lot of people lose their livelihoods and we unfortunately do need to take this into account in our justice system, regardless of how much we want to stick it to Ticketmaster.
Ya true i agree with that