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by epa 581 days ago
Blocking the sale of spirit airlines which resulted in its bankruptcy. Claiming that the sale of the Roomba makers would lead to a monopoly. Where is the ‘great’ you speak of?
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Bankruptcy is a part of law for a reason. They can choose to restructure or to sell off. This is healthy turnover.

And how you are disadvantaged by two robot vacuum cleaner manufacturers not merging? Would you feel differently if you worked for one of them?

You've cherry picked two examples. This is mud slinging and not genuine analysis.

> They can choose to restructure or to sell off

I'm not familiar, but isn't the parent comment saying the sale was blocked?

A specific sale was blocked on antitrust grounds. The proposed sale to Frontier would likely not have been, but the shareholders blocked it. A sale to, like, something other than an airline would certainly not be blocked.
they can be bought by another company, other investors, for a different price.
Being completely lax against shady companies from China for unknown reasons:

https://nbcmontana.com/amp/news/nation-world/calls-federal-i...

How is this being lax? Seems like someone just raised concerns about it this year. The complaints in this amount to "please stop going at our guys and go at the people who are beating our guys."