• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Capture and kill…

    The only thing better than owning the competition, is putting them out of business.

    So they buy studios that compete, fire all the workers, keep the IPs, and call it a day.

    If we enforced anti-monoply laws this wouldn’t be a thing. But monopolies dontate a lot of money to politicians so they say monopolies aren’t a big deal.

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        4 months ago

        Have you met our political system?

        Primaries literally don’t have to be fair, because the results are nonbinding, the party can just pick someone else.

        And the people in charge keep loosening regulations so they can get bigger donations.

        They’re openly running a PAC that coordinates with Biden and the DNC that individuals can legally donate a million a year.

        https://apnews.com/article/biden-2024-democrats-dnc-state-parties-ac8fba0ab1117ebf75cc16ebe0c735e4

        https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00744946/

        Average Americans are being priced out of democracy by both parties. The candidate for both will be who the wealthy pick, and everyone will have to vote if they want to keep who they hate most out of office.

        If you’re wealthy there’s no way to lose, if you’re the other 99.9% you can’t win.

        Regular people can’t out lobby Microsoft and Disney, and unless a progressive third party emerges the system will keep getting worse.

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          unless a progressive third party emerges the system will keep getting worse

          If a progressive third party emerges, they’ll split the vote with Democrats, making both of them weaker. That’ll just give every election to Republicans and make the country get worse even faster.

          The only way to get progressive candidates is by moving the Overton window to the left, and the only way to do that is by voting for Democrats.