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BumRushDaShow

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7. We seem to refuse to buy up companies like this

Reply to Mr. Sparkle (Reply #6)

Thu Mar 27, 2025, 02:09 PM

Mar 2025

and instead put our money into helping people. We need to do BOTH.

The only one "from the left" who did a big media buy was Soros when he bought majority stake in Audacy (his son generally runs the businesses) last year (which includes a couple hundred radio stations). Of course this set the RWosphere into foaming-at-the-mouth madness.

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Do we really want right wingers to own another social media company? Mr. Sparkle Mar 2025 #6

We seem to refuse to buy up companies like this BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 #7

I didnt know Soros bought Audacy, but thats really a drop in the ocean compared to Twitter and CNN in the last few years Mr. Sparkle Mar 2025 #8