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Congress members voice 'serious concern' over Saudi-led EA buyout (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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[–] 56 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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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    • [–] 31 points 9 months 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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    [–] 18 points 9 months ago

    The concern: "Why aren't we in on it?"

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    [–] 12 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 9 months 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    sauds are worse capitalists, but only in the sense that they regularly waste shitloads of $ on stupid shit in a last dotch effort to diversify themselves for the inevitable drying up of oil.

    the US has been intertwining themselves with the UAE for decades as a part of their divide and conquer plan for the ME (which israel is a key part). the West does not want a unified ME, propping up the greedy predictable capitalist Sauds acts as easy source of power projection to keep rest of the area from unifying

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