Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world · edit-220 hours agoYSK that 158 families, the 0.01%, make up 50% of US Presidential Campaign Spending. www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1960arrow-down17
arrow-up1953arrow-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-220 hours agomessage-square70fedilink
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27·edit-210 hours 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-up9·edit-28 hours 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-up3·6 hours 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