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GiqueCee

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11. This kind of shit...

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Sat Mar 14, 2026, 05:51 PM

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... USED to be illegal!
As was Big Pharma advertising directly to consumers. Wanna know part of the reason drug prices are so high, apart from blind, slavering greed? Look at their advertising budgets!
There USED to be limits on how many stations in a given market area one company could own. No more.
There USED to be limits on companies owning all their suppliers – vertical integration was their euphemism for it.
Monopolizing anything was against the law! Tell that to Weasel Walmart, Bozo Bezos; look at how many supermarket chains are owned by Albertsons, for instance (An estimated 2,305 stores divided by at least 20 chains!)... and the list goes on.

Excuse me; I just felt my blood pressure go through the roof.

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