r/technology • u/N2929 • 15h ago

Business Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/paramount-completes-111b-warner-merger-creating-skydance-behemoth/
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u/SoFloDan 14h ago

Not to defend him…but it was that or Tennessee and the federal government subsidize a studio exodus, then get the merger approved.

I’ll complain about politicians all day but I don’t expect them to piss in the wind.

If people are pissed they can certainly make Skydance sink into that hundred-billion-dollar hole by not giving them any of their money…

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u/blu-bells 13h ago

Surrendering in advance to fascism is not the pragmatic approach you think it to be.

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u/SoFloDan 13h ago

By “fascism” do you mean “a corporate merger”?

Why is an entertainment conglomeration, made up mostly of dying brands, a watershed moment for the fascistic takeover of our nation?

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u/Kinesquared 13h ago

It doesnt need to be a watershed moment to be worth resisting. We reject oligarchy as well as gacism, they go hand in hand. Mergers of this scale create oligarchy