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uejfiweuntoday at 5:36 PM2 repliesview on HN

We were stuck in the Gilded Age for decades before Roosevelt came along and started big trust-busting efforts. I expect a similar situation to play out here. We're probably in the middle of it in retrospect.


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kevin_thibedeautoday at 8:11 PM

Al Franken has related the difficulty he had convincing Democrats and Bernie Sanders to sign on to fighting the Comcast Time-Warner merger until they determined it was beneficial to themselves to oppose it.

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skeeter2020today at 5:41 PM

Maybe - or is this closer to the naked theft we saw out of the collapse of the Soviet Union? That's still playing out...