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@antituwust

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lucy 🚩🇺🇦🇵🇸@leftwingpeony·
The way some communists and leftists talk about Taiwan is repellent. If you were truly anti-imperialist, you would support ALL victims of imperialism, not just Western. Y’all believe in nothing except “America bad” and it shows.
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inchoate@antituwust·
@voydboiii @hecubian_devil Actually, the U.S. has very positive relations with Vietnam. This is in contrast to China — who also invaded Vietnam and now asserts several imperialist claims on sovereign Vietnamese territory.
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Cassie Pritchard
Cassie Pritchard@hecubian_devil·
Liberals (usually correctly): “that’s zero-sum thinking…Just because there are tradeoffs doesn’t make it zero-sum…Um that’s a zero-sum fallacy…” Liberals about China: unfortunately we have to be enemies because there can only be one hegemon and it must be us. Arm the nukes.
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ZFlawless 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌉@ZFlawles1s·
i have 3 political moods - every republican alive is an affront to god - the democratic establishment is so evil they hate the left more than republicans - the leftists who refused to vote for kamala are genuinely some of the dumbest people alive
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inchoate@antituwust·
@hecubian_devil Ask the Philippines, Vietnam, and Peru (to name only a few) what they think of Chinas commitment to the liberal order.
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Cassie Pritchard
Cassie Pritchard@hecubian_devil·
@antituwust China presently seems to be a better steward of a liberal international order than the US tbh
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inchoate@antituwust·
@JBSDC It’s also an impossible to meet standard. Not worth making when there’s a sub 5% chance of it succeeding
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Justin Slaughter
Justin Slaughter@JBSDC·
My understanding is the antitrust community likes to note a rare crystalline defense for a merger is the “failing firm” defense, where a merger is required to save a firm from dying. Spirit didn’t make that argument. Of course, the market would devour any firm that did, fast.
Neera Tanden🌻@neeratanden

Given the news today that Spirit Airlines is shuttering and thousands of people are losing their jobs, I think we should honestly assess whether the Garland DoJ stopping the JetBlue merger with Spirit Airlines was the right call. Perhaps it was but any analysis must consider as part of the equation the loss to so many families ro decide.

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inchoate@antituwust·
@HalSinger They did, pre-litigation. The standard for the failing firm defense, however, is so arcane and divorced from commercial reality that nobody can meet it. Really should be corrected. Same with efficiencies.
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Hal Singer
Hal Singer@HalSinger·
There are so many horrible takes on the Spirit Airlines news, blaming Biden and the FTC's Lina Khan--never mind the case was brought by the DOJ--for abusing antitrust law. See, e.g., Rattner in the New York Times below. The DOJ *prevailed* on a judge that the merger, by eliminating head-to-head competition on myriad overlapping routes, would result in higher prices and thereby injure airline passengers; had the case not been meritorious, the merger would have sailed through. Moreover, the merging parties never raised a failing-firm defense. The judge evaluated the competitive effects against a world in which everything is the same but for the merger--that is, a world in which Spirit continues to operate independently. That Spirit's financials deteriorated in 2024 and 2025 relative to 2023 could not have been known when the case was brought (Mar. 2023) or blocked by the court (Jan. 2024). See financials below. Finally, the merger challenge cannot be blamed for Spirit's deteriorating financial condition; that was caused by unrelated factors, including per Spirit grounded aircraft due to Pratt & Whitney engine issues, weak demand for domestic leisure travel, and intense competition. I would add that, as a low-cost carrier, Spirit has not outfitted its planes to cater to high-income travelers a la United and Delta. So please stop blaming activist antitrust enforcement for Spirit's sorry state of the affairs.
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inchoate@antituwust·
@ratlpolicy “Why would I need to keep taking my medicine? I feel great now!”’
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Mike Coté
Mike Coté@ratlpolicy·
Antitrust enforcement was useful a century ago when there were actual monopolists in the American market. The only monopolies today are government-created, not due to the operation of the free market. Antitrust enforcement should, by & large, go the way of the dodo.
Neera Tanden🌻@neeratanden

Given the news today that Spirit Airlines is shuttering and thousands of people are losing their jobs, I think we should honestly assess whether the Garland DoJ stopping the JetBlue merger with Spirit Airlines was the right call. Perhaps it was but any analysis must consider as part of the equation the loss to so many families ro decide.

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Doc Strangelove
Doc Strangelove@DocStrangelove2·
I think a lot of people need to understand that the Three Gorges Dam is the moderate position.
Breanna Morello@BreannaMorello

🚨SHOCKING🚨 A illegal bio lab owned by Chinese nationals was located in Las Vegas. The CDC identified at least 20 potentially infectious agents, including HIV, tuberculosis, and the deadliest form of malaria. A refrigerator labeled "Ebola" was later discovered. The lab's stated purpose was selling test kits, but it mainly imported and resold counterfeit kits from China.

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Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸
Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸@jimstewartson·
so many toldyas. this entire catastrophe is fruit from this poison tree. the broligarchy needs to be brought down. the traitors need to be prosecuted. russia needs to be defeated. it’s all a crime.
The Tennessee Holler@TheTNHoller

Vance’s benefactor Peter Thiel, Epstein, and Russia’s ambassador Vitaly Churkin having an “important lunch” 1 month before the 2016 election — right before the Podesta emails were released by Wikileaks Probably nothing! 🙃🥶

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Animarchy History 🇦🇺
Animarchy History 🇦🇺@AnimarchyYT·
We finally find out that Russian intelligence was working with Jeff, sourcing him girls for blackmail which may have included Trump. And old mate Coach RedPill Gonzalo Ligma isn’t here to see it. A true tragedy
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miss worm@missus_wormy·
probably the worst thing I’ve seen in the epstein docs is how many of these there are
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Henry Burke
Henry Burke@burkehenryt·
I’d like to thank Merrick Garland. He had 4 years with this information and did absolutely nothing with it. Where would we be without his commitment intent to shirking his duty? Probably a better world! But hey, not appearing partisan is far more important than enforcing the law
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Thomas Massie
Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie·
@scisstor His friends are running our government. That’s the point. You’ve already been conquered if you don’t understand the magnitude of this. Or go back to your happy distraction today if this is too much.
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