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alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 years ago

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans' [also Dem] to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors'

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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans' [also Dem] to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors'

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alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 years ago
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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans' to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors'
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The Trump administration is expected to be softer on antitrust cases, which as we know are one of Sweeney's major pursuits.
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  • WatDabney ( WatDabney@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    And he’s 100% right.

    They’re all lining up to kiss Trump’s stinky ass because they expect him to provide them with an unprecedented opportunity to thoroughly and completely fuck us all, and there’s nothing they want more in the world.

  • psvrh ( psvrh@lemmy.ca ) 
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    He’s an opportunistic jackass, but he’s not wrong.

  • Queen HawlSera ( HawlSera@lemm.ee ) 
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    When the worst person you know made a good point.

  • Miles O'Brien ( SARGE@startrek.website ) deleted by creator
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    News flash!

    This, just in: “Leaders of capitalist meat grinders prepared to lie to keep money flowing and try to pull in more”

    I’m shocked.

  • Phen ( Phen@lemmy.eco.br ) 
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    Not who I expected would be saying it loud, but I’ll take it.

  • melitele ( SparrowHawk@feddit.it ) 
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    I don’t get it, what’s so “Epic” about this CEO?

    • Farid ( abfarid@startrek.website ) 
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      I came here to make this joke, but I would have gone with something like:
      “He’s not that epic of a CEO 🙄”

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  • NigelFrobisher ( NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) 
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    I don’t see how stating the blindingly obvious makes him “epic”.

    • Zement ( Zementid@feddit.nl ) 
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      I didn’t understand ether. None of the Epic Games were actually Epic…

  • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc) ( flamingos@feddit.uk ) 
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    He’s 100% right. (Still a douche for what he did to Bandcamp though)

    • apotheotic (she/her) ( apotheotic@beehaw.org ) 
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      What has he done to bandcamp?

      • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc) ( flamingos@feddit.uk ) 
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        He bought the company to bolster his lawsuits against Apple and Google, only to fob it off to Songtradr a few years later in the middle of the staff unionising. Songtradr then sacked half the staff (coincidentally all the ones who were part of the union) and still refuse to recognise the union to this day.

        • apotheotic (she/her) ( apotheotic@beehaw.org ) 
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          That’s disgusting.

  • svc ( svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ) 
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    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut

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  • guava_tropic ( guava_tropic@lemm.ee ) 
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    It’s almost like they have cutting edge artificial intelligence that can brief them on meta game theory and how to ensure successful outcomes for their personal interests, regardless of who’s ass they’re kissing.

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    If you’re at a table with nine Nazis and you don’t leave, then the table has ten Nazis at it. History won’t care why you were at the table, just that you were there.

  • katy ✨ ( cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    tell us something we dont know

  • CanadianCorhen ( CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca ) 
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    No shit? Companies will kowtow to curry favor and increase their profits every single time.

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