@rbreich as Alito mouthed the words "not true" when Obama denounced the SCOTUS decision. We now know what millions of us had already suspected that Alito is nothing but a corrupt PO garbage who voted for it along with Roberts (what corruption? My wife made 10 million?? Huh, I don't see any corruption), Thomas (uh... the definition of corrupt and a sexually abusive pig), Scalia (a friend to religious bigots everywhere until he died) and Kennedy (why did he retire again?)
@rbreich I was thinking about this today in the wake of the @probublica reporting on the corruption in the Supreme Court and I started to wonder if that decision wasn’t just self-defense on the part of the conservative members who have now shown how influential rich folks can buy their opinions… if they think there’s not even the appearance of corruption when rich folks give them lavish vacations how could corporate donations to political actors be corrupt?
@muzzle@rbreich There very purpose is to extract resources out of workers and customers, intercepting every transaction that takes place between them to take a cut on behalf of third parties who contribute nothing. Cooperatives are just as good at organizing and reaping efficiencies of scale, without the profit motive.
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I get the thinking, because Corporations are made up of shareholders, who in the beginning were citizens.
I do not feel it was really thought through.
Foreign entities can buy into US corporations, and with enough money, can buy enough shares to have a majority vote.
Connect the dots from there how that affects the US politics.
Look at how much US Real Estate is owned by Saudis.
No one has to fire a shot to own the US.
@rbreich We shall all be able to agree that "corporations are people, too," when we start finding them locked up in prisons for the crimes committed in their names.
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I’ve been thinking about the Republican nominated & confirmed SCOTUS majority. It’s decisions include:
End regulation of money in politics
End regulation of voting in states with a history of discrimination
End regulation of guns
End regulation of clean water as the EPA has performed it since it became law
End abortion
End affirmative action
End
@rbreich How exactly can something that is a person be a person? If concepts and intimate objects can be people then lets extend that right to all of nature
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