cecilkorik comments on It’s time to block reckless AI IPOs and tax billionaires: We cannot let the billionaire class take unprecedented risks with our future.

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[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Using infinite money for political actions is protected as free-speech now, thanks to the Citizens United decision in 2010. That's a huge part of where this all went really badly wrong. It was not the first nail in the coffin, it was more like a railroad spike. And the fascism express is coming through, right on time. All aboard!

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[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

Citizens United

Such naming pisses me off so much; and that this kind of deception works so well.

In Germany we have for example the "Association of Family Businesses" who regularly advocate for libertarian shit. The name alone makes people think of the nice little baker two streets away that is run in the fourth generation, while the actual members are billionaires like Rossmann, Vorwerk, etc.

Oh or also the "farmer's association" which typically lets people think of that nice old dude with his 10 cows and 2 tractors, while in reality it's the big corporations (including dairy factories and chemical companies).

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[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, perception is unfortunately more important than truth. With a functioning government and legal system we could at least try to fight against such misleading political activities but those institutions have been so extensively undermined I'm not sure if they're even really still standing or if they're just floating in the air waiting for gravity to notice there's nothing still holding them up.

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