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[–] [email protected] 185 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They're not too happy, and they may even write a strongly worded email expressing their unhappiness.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You jest, but the FTC is trying to appeal (undo) the merger in court, and this makes their case a lot stronger: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-ftc-tries-again-stop-microsofts-already-closed-deal-activision-2023-12-06/

For a 68,000,000,000$ deal, even if this helps the FTC by 1%, that's a huge risk

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good. After they un-merge them they can break them up into even smaller pieces. That way in another 30 years when we forget about antitrust against they can re-assemble the monopoly. Fun for everyone!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I got the ill communication

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You took all that effort to put the zeros and commas in, but put the $ on the wrong side of the number.

Neat.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

What?? On the internet???

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

oh no, literally undecipherable

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Lmao found the American.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

How dare people write in the spoken order!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If they actually managed to, my faith in humanity would be restored a little bit

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

WOAH WOAH WOAH LET'S KEEP THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE HERE

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or even give them a good BLAST.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The FTC Bukkakes Microsoft Over Activision Blizzard layoffs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

That's the kind of click bait we need.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you cant just blindside job creators with that, think of the neppies /s