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Funny for you to assume that will change things in this regard, when historically that’s never been the case to any large degree.
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It's silly or misleading to imply nothing has changed in this administration compared to the last one with regard to enforcement of laws and regulations. So many laws changed or ignored and regulatory agencies gutted, dropped, or silenced. The very next link on hn after this article for me is about the cftc being told not to investigate certain oil deals.

Please don't try to convince people to accept the current abuses of the system as inevitable or "both sides" when they clearly aren't.

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> Please don't try to convince people to accept the current abuses of the system as inevitable or "both sides" when they clearly aren't.

Please stop only waking up under a Republican administration, or even worse just under the administration of a wrestling valet game show host.

> clearly aren't.

"Oh, please" and "it's just so obvious." If it's so clear, you should have less trouble explaining it than other things. And that doesn't mean explaining the bad things that your enemies do in power, but explaining how your friends weren't doing those things and actively ending them when they were in power.

Clinton did the massive deregulation that defined this century. Obama didn't prosecute anyone for 2008 financial crimes*, let Citigroup pick his cabinet, bailed out the banks, and flooded the stock market with free cash. Biden is literally the Delaware credit card prevent student loans from being discharged in bankruptcy guy, he had great people in Kanter, Khan and Chopra and undermined and ignored them consistently while breaking a railroad strike.

All absolute dirtbags who did what Republicans could have never gotten away with, because partisans who pretend to care fall asleep when Democrats are in power. A lot of consulting firms and nonprofits get flooded with state cash when Democrats are in power, and don't when Republicans are in power (and vice versa.) Patronage is more powerful than ethics when it comes to the middle class.

[*] Or for a worldwide torture network, or the people who admitted destroying evidence of the worldwide torture network. Or for the intentional lies that began two Middle East wars.

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> Or for a worldwide torture network, or the people who admitted destroying evidence of the worldwide torture network. Or for the intentional lies that began two Middle East wars.

Yes, but Trump says silly things on social media.

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This form of laissez faire capitalism looks equally prominent in Europe at the moment. The problem seems not tied to any particular administration, but rather a culture of the Neo-liberal ideology which is pervasive across the entire capital and the governing classes of the western world (probably even wider).
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If you think Europe is in any way laissez faire capitalism, then point to all the crazy unicorns pushing the state of the art forward there.
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I did say 'at least'
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They did change when Biden came into office and they started actually doing antitrust.
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And tech billionaires panicked and bankrolled the Republican Party. So, it was working. A shame that the USA has a democracy on sale. Less money in politics could have brought better lives for the average USA citizens.

But splitting big tech is unavoidable as otherwise they will sink the rest of the economy with them (and then it will be split anyway).

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Them donating to Trump didn't make dumb voters vote for him. They did that of their own free will
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