2d ago

WGA releases statement on the acquisition Warner Bros. by Netflix

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Who did they want to buy it?
- Ideally, no one at all.
The worst part is that WB owns HBO which is probably one of few which didn’t transformed into shit. I wish they could buyout themselves
Wish granted, the Trump administration blocks the deal with Netflix only so that Larry Ellison can have it instead.
There's really no win in this situation.
I myself am looking forward to the day when Buy n Large takes over every aspect of our lives.
Capitalism is like a long warm hug by an elephant. Eventually the elephant goes to sleep on you.
Remember kids: "we all support this system together".
- All you need, and so much more
- not if we stop bnl from doing so.
To bad the government is fully compromised.
I for one thing the merger is a great idea. Why shouldn't the company famous for cancelling shows after one season merge with the company famous for burying completed movies for a tax write-off?
- I hate this deal but I am hoping Harry Potter gets cancelled after one season
  
  Regardless of what JK Rowling is Harry Potter is a international sensation. It's insane that they're trying to remake it when it's what less than 20 years old.
  There's plenty of good IP out there why don't they make something of that.
- I mean maybe Netflix will add those completed movies.
Does this mean Netflix own all the Warner music stuff too?
Its only indie, foreign, and old films for me from here on out. I'm done with all the corporate slop.
- Hold on to your hat, they are going to reboot all of your favorite classic films... And Chris Pratt will star in ALL OF THEM...
  
  He's so cool.
Look at the writers guild of America pretending they don't live in a fascist dictatorship where nothing matters but profits. How quaint.
The chances of this getting blocked under antitrust laws is roughly equivalent to me hitting oil in my back garden.
- No, they totally know that. We all know that. And I agree that the chances of antitrust law being used for its stated purpose here is low. Do you think they shouldn't have released this statement?
  Why do you disdain people suffering under capitalism?
I mean the alternative was paramount buys them...which is worse since the ellisons are pretty far right.
- Such a cool timeline where the options are a consolidation merger that eliminates competition and creates an unfair advantage, destroying jobs, enriching the wealthy, or the same thing but with Larry Ellison who will obviously do it with a hard right wing slant (as opposed to the other option just quietly doing that)
- Assuming that no merger is not an option, I guess?
  
  Considering wb put the company up for sale, yes that seems unlikely.
Thats why this regime is blessing it, of course.
- Don't forget the incoming bribes!
Antitrust. How quaint.
I mean, I get it but the only people bidding on WBD was Skydance (Ellison). The options were Skydance, Disney, a vulture fund, or Netflix. That's probably why Netflix even decided to bid. Nobody wanted WBD.
Consolidation should have never been allowed, but now that the beast that is Disney exists, there is very little argument that could succeed against the WBD purchase.
- ITS SKYDANCE/ and the saudis.
"Antitrust is woke!"
--- Donny the Destroyer
This will make them too big to fail. Everyone can RELAX now.
- Relax. Don't do it, when you wanna suck it to it:
I wonder if we will at least publicly name the folks who proposed this clearly illegal merger? Just for the record?
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Bring it on! Things must get a lot worse before they're going to get better.
- Bold of you to believe that things are going to get better.

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