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Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

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366 points gniting | 4 comments | 08 Dec 25 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Previously: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160315 (1333 comments)
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notepad0x90 ◴[08 Dec 25 21:41 UTC] No.46198023[source]▶
I just realized that the netflix ceo is a big-time democratic party donor, and that paramount is supposedly being supported by larry ellison (big-time republican/trump donor) and saudis? I'm sensing a strong political/influence angle here by the billionaires.
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imbnwa ◴[08 Dec 25 21:45 UTC] No.46198083[source]▶
That is exactly what is going on. Everyone at WB management knows that the Ellisons want to weaponize CNN before the midterms runoffs start in spring.
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ls-a ◴[08 Dec 25 23:47 UTC] No.46199333[source]▶
Doesn't that imply that Netflix was planning to do the same (for their party)? Or are you saying Netflix is innocent here
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1. rjmorris ◴[09 Dec 25 01:29 UTC] No.46200239[source]▶
No, it doesn't imply that. Saying party X plans to do something implies nothing about what party Y plans to do.
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2. chii ◴[09 Dec 25 03:49 UTC] No.46201045[source]▶
> Saying party X plans to do something

but that's not the whole thing being said.

Party X may have been planning on something, but party Y threw a wrench in the middle, causing party X to have to make some response. By implication, party X believes party Y to be throwing a wrench, hence, party X must act. Therefore, party Y also must be planning something that counteracts party X's desires. If it weren't so, party X would not act (as that costs money).

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3. dragonwriter ◴[09 Dec 25 08:09 UTC] No.46202491[source]▶
The thing that contradicts Party X's desires can just be not doing the thing Party X wants done, it doesn't have to be doing an equal and opposite thing.

This seems like a variation on the fallacy of the excluded middle.

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4. giraffe_lady ◴[09 Dec 25 15:39 UTC] No.46206105{3}[source]▶
It's closer to so-far-unnamed fallacy of "the right has no agency." Everything they do is in response to something done by the democrats or the left or whatever and so they aren't responsible for their actions.