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senderista ◴[] No.46198930[source]
The US is starting to resemble pre-war Ukraine, with industrial oligarchs owning their own media empires and openly buying elections/influence.
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sophrosyne42 ◴[] No.46198998[source]
Hostile bids have been a thing forever.
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mmooss ◴[] No.46199497[source]
That says nothing about this particular situation. Written language has been a thing for 5,000 years, and it's used for this bid, so nothing remarkable here ...
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sophrosyne42 ◴[] No.46200245[source]
I guess the OP is just making an unrelated comment, because it almost sounds like he thinks that a hostile bid is evidence that the US has Ukraine-levels of corruption. Leaving aside the odd time period (Ukraine was much less corrupt pre-war than it was pre-Maidan, not to speak of its other more corrupt neighbor), the fact that hostile bids have been around for a long time in the US is good evidence to suggest that they don't indicate the level of corruption implied by OP. If OP made the same comment under a post about verb conjugation, wouldn't that seem odd to you too?

Or maybe they just happened to make an off-topic comment that had nothing to do with the hostile takeover.

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1. p_j_w ◴[] No.46202140[source]
You've completely missed the point. It's not that there's a hostile bid, it's the conditions of this particular hostile bid pointing to corruption.
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2. sophrosyne42 ◴[] No.46209391[source]
Sure, it could be that. If only OP said that.