• a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    And we circle back to exactly the sort of dipshit rationale that has fucked the us over for so long.

    Corporations are not individuals. They do not get the rights that humans do. The end.

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      16 days ago

      I just double checked the first amendment and try as I might I couldn’t find the word “individuals” anywhere. I did see “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press” though.

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        16 days ago

        Probably because they thought nobody would be stupid enough to expect that it applied to organizations.

        You’re just essentially arguing that citizens united was a good thing. Which is reprehensively stupid.