• REDACTED@infosec.pub
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    15 hours ago

    It’s a bit weird to me how hyperfocused gamers are on Saudi Arabia. No, they do not own EA, it’s a joint venture between two other US investment firms;

    Silver Lake Partners: A private equity firm focused on technology and media investments. Silver Lake is also part of the new Oracle-led joint venture set to take on management of TikTok’s U.S. operations.

    Affinity Partners: Led by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, the firm is a participant in the buyout.

    Why not focus on weirdly rich Trump’s son-in-law? Knowing it’s family, the thought of Trump family owning EA sounds worse than Saudi Arabia fund.

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      15 hours ago

      They’re all such nice people it’s hard to know who to boycott them over the most.

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      11 hours ago

      the thought of Trump family owning EA sounds worse than Saudi Arabia fund.

      last time I checked Trump wasn’t cutting off hands.

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        9 hours ago

        Do you KNOW what your country does to death row prisoners??? Do you know you often have the highest incarceration rate in the world??? And that’s just the old shit that everyone already accepts, there is a LOT of REALLY BAD SHIT going down in your country’s name right now; you got no place to be throwing stones from.

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          7 hours ago

          Do you KNOW what your country does to death row prisoners??? ; you got no place to be throwing stones from.

          yeah I do.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Uruguay

          Capital punishment in Uruguay was abolished from the legal system in 1907 by Law N° 3238, passed during the government of president Claudio Williman, and later removed from the constitutional system in 1918. The death penalty had been expressly established by Uruguayan Constitution of 1830.

          fucking nothing

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              5 hours ago

              So? People are mad at EA being sold, among others, to saudi arabia. Who cut off hands for theft.

              EA has been dogshit for decades now anyway.

              Not sure why you had to try to bring me and my country into it, but I don’t buy EA games, I don’t go to the US, I don’t go to Saudi Arabia.