- 1 month
And this is precisely why every country needs a maximum contribution per person per year AND a ban on corporate lobbying.
- TacoSocks@infosec.pubEnglish1 month
They are better than people, they get to spend as much as they want on buying politicians and they can’t go to prison.
- ContactClosure@lemmus.orgEnglish1 month
As long as we’re not talking about responsibility for war crimes anyway.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish1 month
they are using superpacs, in case Pacs/superpacs somehow get limited by laws, unlikely. they probably could spin up a bunch of LLC to cover the rest.
- Godwins_Law@lemmy.caEnglish1 month
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep pushing against money in politics and trying for progress, closing loopholes
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish1 month
I would like to see a top 100 by percentage of wealth. sorry top 100 largest donars but then see what the percent of their wealth that donation is. I bet musks is a drop in the bucket
- 1 month
$90 million dollars is about 0.00008% of Musk’s estimated wealth
- Bakkoda@lemmy.worldEnglish1 month
Lol everyone cheered when Sheldon died and forgot about him. Meanwhile his estate/wife has doubled down on contributions.
So much wealth that long after they have died they still control us.
It’s time to start murdering these people folks.
- bagsy@lemmy.worldEnglish1 month
Corporations are people will go down as one of the stupidest, most destructive rulings of any court.
- schema@lemmy.worldEnglish1 month
It’s even worse in that they are apparently only people when it comes to donations. When the company does something criminal, they are suddenly entities that cannot possibly be punished beyond a fine for less than the crime committed.
- FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish1 month
You could put the articles of incorporation in a jail cell but I don’t see what that would accomplish…
- resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeEnglish1 month
They used to tear up corporate charters of criminal corporations.
The problem was that it was effective.
- FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish1 month
lmao how is that effective? “oh no, we’d better write the charter out again boo hoo”
- FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish1 month
Yeah I did google it and you know, none of the sources said that the practice was abandoned because “it was effective” 🤔
They do talk about how the law around incorporation was changed, making it ineffective. Because the company officers could just recreate the company.
Which is what I said… but sure, be snarky about it if you like!
- resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeEnglish1 month
So, they changed the laws and made it ineffective, implying it was effective before?
Or you’re saying the incorporation laws were always ineffective against the corporate death penalty, then they changed them to make it… extra ineffective?
