Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world · edit-213 days agoYSK that 158 families, the 0.01%, make up 50% of US Presidential Campaign Spending. www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up11.08Karrow-down17
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-213 days agomessage-square78fedilink
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31arrow-down1·edit-213 days agoCitizens 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-213 days ago 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-up7·13 days agoI’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