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Then lose. What the fuck do you want from me?
It's not you they're talking to. The whole point of this statement is to fear-monger and get the government to give these assholes huge subsidies to "compete", except these subsidies will go straight to the shareholders.
Make no mistake, it's just grifters trying to get the last bit of juice before they declare "yeah we're bankrupt, cheerios"
We stopped trying to improve our product when we realized we were going to lose anyway, but it didn't stop us from asking for a bunch of government money first
It’s the cia state department Havana Syndrome victims strategy of receiving a free $200,000 for a career of evil deeds before fucking off to the private sector, but at industrial scale