• HubertManne@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    oh they did actually. its called citizens united and ruled that corporations are super citizens with all the benefits of a person but none of the disadvantages.

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          11 months ago

          Jeeez. I stand corrected. And baffled.

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            11 months ago

            superpacs would not exist without that law. With the law superpacs have been deciding the canidates to choose from since.

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                11 months ago

                whats really scary is that was passed by a better supreme court. Also its been over a decade and we will never be as free as we were before it till its ended. I can’t imagine what our current destroyers of democracy court will pass through. I hope internet stuff like this can be seen by future historians so they know folks were aware and against what was happening but pretty much powerless to stop it.

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                  11 months ago

                  At least you can rest assured on that. Nowadays history is harder to rewrite or “adapt”. So there’s that. But fuck. It shouldn’t even be a thing