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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (17 children)
  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    What exactly about it is it you feel should be illegal?

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago* (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    It's definitely not new, but it's time to start thinking about how strange it is, and start pulling these assholes off their money-merry-go-round.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    It's a world economy. What are you, some sort of maga twit America first and only bullshit?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    That is some very black or white, us or them, red team vs blue team thinking. It's very interesting that you immediately jump to that conclusion when I am not even from the US at all. The answer to your question is absolutely not, and the fact that it's a "world economy" doesn't and shouldn't mean any people are obligated to do business with and accept the controlling interest of literal monsters fueled by oil and oil money. Ethics must also be allowed to control the economy, not just money. The world's financial systems have consequences beyond just the economy.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    "Stop being such a fascist and let us do business with these fucking murderers"

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I don't want them to buy it. But there isn't anything illegal with investors purchasing a company line this no matter where they are from. It's just business, it really doesn't matter who owns them, they suck no matter what 

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago

    I think its more there is a certain level of baseline public investment in most corporations and it seems dumb to maintain the fiction that people's livelihoods should be sold as a commodity, especially to a bunch of despots

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  • [–] 1 point 11 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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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

    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 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

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