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minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 months ago…what…? Antitrust actions against… checks notes environmental advocacy groups…? How the fuck does that make even the barest scintilla of sense…?
minus-squaregAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months 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
minus-squareSkyrmir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoBankruptung them through frivolous prosecution is the goal.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months 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-up6·2 months agoThe argument is ‘I have judges in my pocket, fuck you!’
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYep, pretty much.
…what…? Antitrust actions against… checks notes environmental advocacy groups…? How the fuck does that make even the barest scintilla of sense…?
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
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.