We are so fucked

Wonderful .. in addition to bribing lobbying politicians they can now vote for them.

We are one Super PAC dark money donation away from the Bill of Rights becoming the Bill of Privileges.

Okay, they have the right to vote, but HOW do they vote? If my mom wants to vote, I can't go vote in her place as a proxy, so a person couldn't vote in proxy for a corp. Does a company have to be 18 years old to vote? In Delaware you need a state ID or a social security number to vote. Can they get those? So many nonsensical leaps in logic have to be made to make this possible.

Okay silver lining this explicitly applies to voting in municipal elections. This only applies to municipalities that have a law specifically allowing a vote for every property owner and citizen.

This is extremely limited in scope. Batshit insane, but not as bad as it first seemed.

Can a corporation have an ID? Can a corporation have a social Security number? If a corporation dies can I burn it in a crematory to make ashes or bury it in the ground?

This is such horseshit

A "novel" ruling... Yeah that's one way to put it...

I wonder how much of this is blowback from Hawaii kicking their asses.

Not American enough for me. When can I vote for corporations in elections? i want to be able to choose between voting for palantir or onlyfans for president

This is treason

Next step, trading votes like stocks on the exchange.

This is why Citizens United Corporations United has to be repealed. Don't just get mad at a judge for ruling according to the law, which is his job. There are shades of legality judges can rule on, like the meaning of "reasonable", but if federal law says a corporation is a person, it's legally a person. The solution is to repeal that law.

edit: typo

Each employee can represent 3/5 of a vote!

Sweet so if I have a bunch of Delaware corporations I can vote a bunch of times.

Well, that's one way for States to make a pittance from rich people.

Every rich person will now open 99 bs companies to vote 100 times.

It's possible that he's actually interpreting the law correctly. It's just that the laws on this crap in Delaware are clearly batshit insane.

Just like we have Palantir, soon we will have Arasaka and Militech.

Can they go to jail?

What the fuck are we doing Delaware?

How? Wouldn't they have to go through a voter registration process that requires a voter id and ss#, and who casts the vote? The CEO or someone selected from the board?.. and couldn't some rich asshole just start a whole bunch of corporations to give themselves as many votes as they want? This blatantly goes against the one person one vote principle.

If companies can vote, have free speech rights, and are people then why is it legal for one company to own another? Isn't that slavery?

How can you vote as an individual and corporate entity? Could one not just incorporate hundreds of companies just to annihilate other voters?

The lawsuit [doesn't] show “that entity property owners vote sufficiently as a bloc to usually defeat the preferred candidates of natural persons...”

This is "no harm no foul," except it's a judge and he's actually making this argument seriously.

"Persons" don't vote. Citizens do.

“A novel ruling,” Christ almighty.

Karsnitz dismissed the lawsuit from Delaware’s Superior Court, citing “the principle of one person/entity/one vote.”

This is how you get people to bring back dragging someone into the street and horsewhipping them. I’m not advocating it, it’s just the natural response some people are going to have to being told corporations get to vote in a state with more corporations than people.

So... if I own a company and spin off... oh, lets say a million shell corporations, have I generated a million voters?

The logic of free speech applying to corporations is that they are an extension of their operators, making restrictions to them effectively restrictions on the operators.

This is way more wild. This gives corporations people-rights distinct from their operators.

So if you’re a CEO you get two votes?

This is what this seems like to me…

Why go through all the trouble of simulating that you have a Democracy by having Money sponsoring politicians in a system where only a few politicians can de facto be elected, when you can have Money just directly vote?!

Seems a lot more efficient if you remove intermediary steps and middlemen.

Also removing all the smoke & mirrors is a lot more honest.

I am actually surprised they've become so open about the system being an Oligarchy rather than a Democracy.

If companies can vote, they should be subject to the death penalty like everyone else.

As people have been saying for years, I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.

Ok, and if they're people then we can apply legal ramifications to them, right? Right?!?!

So let me get this straight... Corporations have the right to vote all the while the government is trying to purge registered voters from the polls? How long until the fucking corporations end up with multiple votes due to size?

Ah, taking a play out of the ol' "City Of London" book!

What the fuck‽ This needs to be banned immediately

Also this is super easy to game

How does a corporation aquire the necessary citizenship to vote?

And given most C-suite consult LLMs heavily, we're now on the slope to where robot overlords run the show.

Would it be best? Debatably not. Would it be better than Trump? Of course.

Reality outpaces satire faster every day.

What we have here is an accelerant to burn this all down. I am mystified as to why. Money was being made. People were contributing to it. We can tolerate a lot and maybe they keep pushing to see how much we’ll take, but at some point it’ll light the fuse and then nobody really gets anything good anymore. Resulting in years of Balkanization and warlords or worse. Greedy fucks.