@C_3C_3 Because the rest of the world wants to move to those places where great things are made and life is easy, but those places are White Countries.
@4nt1p4tt3rn@coffee_oil When I worked for a certain now-defunct cell phone company, I developed a 1/T meeting law. Meetings last 1/T hours, where T = hours planned. We had a 15 minute bug meeting early AM and a 15 minute build meeting after lunch, both mandatory. They consumed the whole day.
@elonmusk@SawyerMerritt@Starlink Cmon dude, that's the way Delta has operated for decades! What I find difficult is how people can stand to be their customers.
@ID_AA_Carmack I can affirm that semiconductor companies are EXTREMELY risk averse. I founded a company on rapid chip design automation and it failed because nobody wanted to risk moving from a manual design effort to an repeatable automation. Imagine that!
@WingsEcosse@r_hirschman If it were the disease it would have started in 2019, when the disease broke out. It's pretty clear you'd gladly be an idiot if the financial incentives were right. How much do the vaccine manufacturers subsidize your wallet?
Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren
She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements.
Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service.
JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes.
The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%.
For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%.
Warren said no.
She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.
Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year.
Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug.
510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December.
14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight.
And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms.
Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back.
40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market.
And the math ain’t mathing.
Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%.
That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.”
So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money?
Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years.
Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do.
Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.”
A win.
14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight.
And she’s taking credit.
This is socialism in 2026.
A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company.
She saved you a billion on imaginary paper.
She cost you ten times that in real life.
She didn’t protect consumers from anything.
14,000+ will go from working to welfare.
She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed.
Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything.
She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.
@MarioNawfal Yeah. You can lie down, surrender, give up all that's worth living for. Let the aggressor have everything, your life, your wife, your children, your land, your food, your very right to breathe. Peace at all costs comes at great expense.
@Timcast If you really wanted coverage of what's going on, you'd watch @TousiTVOfficial because that guy's got real sources in Iran and can provide the news days before it's on any other network.
@k9_reaper Are you suggesting there's nothing else going on in South Africa worth posting about? I would venture you've been doing a good job so far, why change course?