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aburtch
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@aburtch@shakedown.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Walmart’s physical footprint is so large, every single person in the United States can fit inside Walmart’s footprint at the same time. #monopoly

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Dadbod AntiFa
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@beckett@triangletoot.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@aburtch If only there were some laws against monopolies, the government corks do something about it.

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@aburtch@shakedown.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@beckett yeah, this whole podcast is about how everything worked fine until the ‘80’s when the Reagan administration stopped enforcing the Robinson-Patman act.

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Dadbod AntiFa
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@beckett@triangletoot.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@aburtch Bingo. And no one lifted a finger after that. Not Clinton, not Obama. Biden did start a little.

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@aburtch@shakedown.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@beckett You’re exactly right. Because (as you’ve seen from my many posts on this topic) all politicians are beholden to their Wall Street donors.

All credit for trying to bring it back goes to Lina Khan.

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Michael Bacon
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@MichaelTBacon@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@aburtch @beckett

Lina Khan, legend.

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