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minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·15 days ago…what…? Antitrust actions against… checks notes environmental advocacy groups…? How the fuck does that make even the barest scintilla of sense…?
minus-squareSkyrmir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·15 days agoBankruptung them through frivolous prosecution is the goal.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·15 days agoNo - I understand the goal. I’m just baffled at the legal argument they’re making. It’s very obviously categorical nonsense.
minus-squareSkyrmir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·15 days agoThe argument is ‘I have judges in my pocket, fuck you!’
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoYep, pretty much.
minus-squaregAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·15 days agoThey call it the free market because it’s free to do exactly what their rich friends want. If concerned citizens could influence it to do something else that upset their rich friends that wouldn’t be very free, obviously /s
…what…? Antitrust actions against… checks notes environmental advocacy groups…? How the fuck does that make even the barest scintilla of sense…?
Bankruptung them through frivolous prosecution is the goal.
No - I understand the goal. I’m just baffled at the legal argument they’re making. It’s very obviously categorical nonsense.
The argument is ‘I have judges in my pocket, fuck you!’
Yep, pretty much.
They call it the free market because it’s free to do exactly what their rich friends want. If concerned citizens could influence it to do something else that upset their rich friends that wouldn’t be very free, obviously /s