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If you're wondering why CNBC is carrying water for the fascists, it's the same reason all the other corps are:
Comcast is the parent company of NBCUniversal, which owns CNBC. Versant would become the new parent company of CNBC under a planned spinoff.
They want approval for restructuring.
The answer is money. All of capitalism will abandon every "value", every virtue signal of ethics and morality, and capitulate to fascism as long as they believe it will mean greater profits for them, personally.
Maybe enshrining greed as the basis of our economic system was a completely psychotic and narcissistic dead end, that was always doomed to end in the few enslaving the majority?
Maybe corporations shouldn't be people too.
This is the same FCC chair who claims he has no way to retaliate against broadcasters. 🙄
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5511868-fcc-commissioner-anna-gomez-broadcasters-retaliation/
That's because at the time the government was playing by the rules, and the supreme Court would uphold the first amendment.
Now Disney needs government approval for the big merger of NFL networks, so it's time to kiss asses
someone needs to release this assholes porn history.