crashfrog
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- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 3 weeks ago:
It’s not a ruling about the rights of corporations!
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 3 weeks ago:
They who? Implemented what?
There never were individual limits on political speech.
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 3 weeks ago:
CU doesn’t rely on corporations being people. It relies on individuals having First Amendment rights.
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 3 weeks ago:
People don’t have fewer rights under the First Amendment when they assemble to exercise them than they do individually. Citizens United was correctly decided and if you disagree, it’s because you think it’s a ruling that “corporations are people.”
When it’s actually a ruling that corporations are fictions.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 3 weeks ago:
Good thing that it’s not a genocide, according to the UN definition and the ICJ, or some people might really be in trouble
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 3 weeks ago:
Yes that’s correct, you don’t need the Senate’s permission to sell things
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 3 weeks ago:
These are all basically the same thing and, yes, you can’t pass a bill in the Senate if you can’t get 60 votes
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 4 weeks ago:
Jeff Bezos doesn’t work at Amazon