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Hi America. I'm not one of you but I am getting concerned.
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nope not really
but there are a bunch of douchbags that are in charge and they are silly billying it up and will soon be dead of old age and silly billyish gay aids
well i'm not gonna act surprised or anything, but suppose fannin had made it out of goliad to the alamo with his men and his supplies, given how the defenders gave a decent account for themselves, maybe not as awesome as it's made out to be, but just maybe the alamo could've held out and defeated santa ana there.
but regardless, fannin got wiped out, the alamo got wiped out, the mexican army was held up for a period of time allowing sam houston to get enough people together, and they managed to defeat them at san jacinto in an unconventional manner
you'd all be better off
ungrateful!
no fuck you i have great teeth
don't you live in texas
texas might as well be alabama
basically the exact same thing
not because better things are happening there, but because i am odd and like cold
what province, SE++?
always newfoundland
I am looking so fine today it is ridiculous
I don't know, I generally don't like "Screw it, I'm moving to Canada" pronouncements from a political perspective. It seems so... wimpy. You flee a country when you really have to, not just when it looks like you're in for an icky decade or two.
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As most folks know, I'm liberal as all get out. But I registered Republican just so I could vote against that scumpile twice a year. So strong is my vitriol for her.
corporations are people
they are groups of people who get together and invest toward the same end
corporations are not persons, which is the immediate "oh that's horrible" response some dudes are having to this ruling, which is wrong and dumb
If corporations are people in the eyes of the law, we ought to be able to convict them of the same crimes and subject them to the same punishments as people
The exact same crimes and punishments
So what I'm saying is that if corporations are people you should be able to charge a corporation with murder and seek the death penalty for it
the way we are using the term
people != persons
persons can be sent to jail
people can not
You can fit a whole lot of people in American jails, we've got plenty of room
1. Lots of advocacy organizations -- the ACLU, NARAL, etc. are legally corporations. You don't have to be for-profit to be a corporation.
2. Corporations have loopholes by which to fund things anyhow. I'd really rather it be by an ad; that, at least, is more transparent than lobbying. If you try to sway people with ads, there's at least the chance that they won't be persuaded. If you do it behind the scenes, there's no way the public can "resist."
3. Burdensome regulations on campaigning have a chilling effect even on citizens who aren't in a corporation, because compliance with campaign finance law is so expensive. I don't want to make it harder to get a group of people together for political action.
4. The issue in question was a documentary. The law suppressed the distribution of a documentary unflattering to a candidate during election season. Doesn't that sound like political speech to you?
5. If all I cared about was defeating Republicans, I'd suppress all political speech, period. The more political agitation goes on, the worse it is for vulnerable incumbents. So we need to be very careful about the temptation to hamper free speech; when the "speech" takes the form of anti-Hillary bile or Tea Party madness, it engenders a lot less sympathy than "We shall overcome." It's ugly. And it threatens liberal ideals. It's tempting to try to make them all shut up. But we need to suck it up, remember Voltaire, and let them talk.
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Apparently Arizona has a public election funding system that works pretty well
During the Depression, FDR was often pushed left by Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, an unabashed liberal populist
Also, George W. Bush is actually from Connecticut
mostly because not much can
more of this, please
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Twitter (mean leftist discourse)
Here's the thing though.
If the PEOPLE that make up a corporation already have freedom of speech as individuals, why should the corporation itself be given that right, particularly when the decision makers in a corporation often don't have to answer to all the people below them for the decisions they make?
Then there's the whole thing about how this ruling basically legalizes unlimited bribery.
Secret Satan
When you consider that the CEO can already say whatever they want with their own money, that's pretty silly.
Apparently it was brought up in the trial: what if shareholders in the company disagree with the speech being given? Justice Thomas answered that they should remove their stock from the company, but that doesn't seem very useful for people who have pension plans, now, does it?
Secret Satan
I'm paraphrasing. So technically no.
Secret Satan
what the fuck are you on about?
That was pretty funny the last time.
"Le Quebecois weel be our onne countree!"
"Ok, here's your percentage of the national debt."
"...Viva Canadá!"
CEO's are not as all powerful as you think. They still have boards and their shareholders to answer to. If they piss them off they get fired and it happens all the fucking time. That is precisely why so many CEO's get guaranteed payouts in their contracts. It's not exactly the pinnacle of job security.