Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world · edit-21 个月前YSK that 158 families, the 0.01%, make up 50% of US Presidential Campaign Spending. www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square78linkfedilinkarrow-up11.08Karrow-down16
arrow-up11.07Karrow-down1external-linkYSK that 158 families, the 0.01%, make up 50% of US Presidential Campaign Spending. www.nytimes.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world · edit-21 个月前message-square78linkfedilink
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·edit-21 个月前Citizens United was the final straw in the downfall of America democracy. It’s been inevitable since. Unless it’s overturned it’s over, and I don’t think they can overturn it.
minus-squarekalkulat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-21 个月前 Citizens United Corporations have been ‘people’ since the 1886 USSC decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. Yet somehow, unlike most people, they’ve escaped having to go to jail when they commit crimes. I’d call that an unfair advantage.
minus-squareReverendIrreverence@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 个月前I’ll believe a corporation is a “person” when Texas (or Alabama, Florida, South Carolina etc) executes one of them
Citizens United was the final straw in the downfall of America democracy.
It’s been inevitable since.
Unless it’s overturned it’s over, and I don’t think they can overturn it.
Corporations have been ‘people’ since the 1886 USSC decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.
Yet somehow, unlike most people, they’ve escaped having to go to jail when they commit crimes. I’d call that an unfair advantage.
I’ll believe a corporation is a “person” when Texas (or Alabama, Florida, South Carolina etc) executes one of them