Because "too big to fail" is now a viable business strategy employed by those at the top.

I read that in Robert Stack’s voice.

If this is anything like 08, the failing banks I buy stock in for hopes of a bailout and rebound will be the ones that don’t get bailed out and drop to zero

> China is going to treat Western companies as adversaries

But they don’t? They allow all western companies as long as they follow Chinese laws, the same laws that Chinese companies have to follow themselves. They’ve never banned a tech company just for being American.

Did you know more than 20% of Apple’s revenue is from China? Does that sound like a country that treat Western companies as adversaries?

I am for the solution to make US data privacy and political influence laws that all tech companies have to follow, foreign or domestic. But that wouldn’t happen since this whole thing started because of Meta’s lobbying in the first place.

Got it, so you’re resorting to technicalities. Obviously the version of Google that would be in China would have to play ball with the CCP and follow their rules on things like data governance and local control. So I ask again, if China is going to treat Western companies as adversaries on this topic, why should we lowering our walls and allow them to export authoritarianism through TikTok? It’s pretty simple; if TikTok is willing to sell off their US arm so that it’s not required to follow Chinese law (either implicit or explicit), than it should be banned for both the data and influence issues.

I'm just happy they said the pigeons were released haha

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Of course they couldn't. How could they censor Google without cooperation from the company or a blanket ban? Do you know how internet works???

In fact China's law requires American companies to have server inside China and cooperate with Chinese government for censorship. Google and Facebook didn't wanna play ball so they were blocked. Apple and Microsoft did play ball which is why iMessage and FaceTime and iCloud and LinkedIn and Skype and Bing are allowed. I bet you didn't know that.

It requires cooperation on the companys' part. Without that you can't selectively censor content.

Oh it’s even worse, like my company announces our prediction for earnings, then a bunch of random analysts pick different numbers and if we’re not at those numbers the stock goes down.

That person has a PHD in Birdtapologigy. They are also wanted in 9 states for animal cruelty for taping birds to furniture, houses, buildings, and just about any other large object. They have indisputability proved that a pigeon can not be use as a pack animal, construction equipment, and wall dressing.

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The bomber crews in particular suffered an absolutely ferocious rate of losses. The UK's RAF Bomber Command had a 44% fatality rate through the war while a full 50% of the USAAF's casualties were in the Eighth Bomber Command alone.

It's a good job those men were bomber crew, no other aircraft would have been able to carry the sheer size and weight of their balls in the first place.

Bed, Bath, and Beyond Bankrupt.

They should have invested more in Pigeon backpack tech.

Is there any way we can get away from the massive "too big to fail" banks? Isn't that the more major problem?

Yeah I’m sure they couldn’t censor their internet if they allowed Google, what an asinine argument lol

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I hope that any depositor who has more than the $250,000 limit is reimbursed even if it means that there’s not enough money in the FDIC fund and taxpayers will have to make up the difference.

This is what’s been done with the SVB bailout, so it’s only fair that First Republic gets the same treatment.

Well I won't ask, but for large scale operations sure. For a tiny amount to get into a prison? I'm not in support of drugs being flown into prison, but I gotta give credit for ingenuity.

I'm not even mad. Pretty ingenious if you ask me.

I was also saddened by the backpack. Idk why I was expecting tiny jansports

So there are at least two pigeons who know how to make backpacks.

And who have turned to a life of crime.

If you flip a quarter to make investing decisions, you'll be right about half the time.

Jim Cramer: dumber than a quarter.

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“Homemade“?? What pigeon makes its own backpack?

Pfft. That’s a ridiculously, false analogy.