• Katana314@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    What’s the bribe price for “serious” concern?

    Also, the journalist writing the article may wish to wear some armor on their neck.

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    23 hours ago

    Nothing will come of this unless it also concerns Republicans, but it doesn’t, because the President’s son-in-law helped make this deal happen and personally benefited from it.

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    23 hours ago

    As if it’d be better run by private interests in the US 😂

    The letter was sent on January 22 and suggests the debt-financed $55 billion acquisition, which will purportedly result in PIF holding a 93.4 percent stake in the Battlefield and Apex Legends publisher, will incentive layoffs, offshoring, studio closures, and other cost-cutting measures.

    “incentive”

    Also, isn’t this what yanks have been doing for decades? Don’t seppo businesses regularly fire a bunch of employees before the end of the financial year to have “record-breaking fourth quarter” and then hire back a bunch of people? Painting the Saudis as worse capitalists than the USAians is just hilarious

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      22 hours ago

      Their concern isn’t that people are getting laid off but that they’ll be laid off here and replaced with people abroad; and the executives benefiting from the cost-cutting are no longer Americans in this case.

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        21 hours ago

        I think it’s really only the latter: if rich yanks benefit = good, if non-yanks benefit = bad. They don’t give two shits about USAians non in the C-suite being laid off. They haven’t since the beginning and won’t start now.