Yes, Delaware. You’re insane.
Also fuck Citizens United, which this is a logical consequence of.
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Wait… does that mean if I spin up 5 million LLCs in Delaware, I get 5,000,001 votes?
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I like Thom Hartmann, but there's a difference between a court for one tiny town saying corporations can vote in municipal elections in that one town and "ZOMG! Corporations can vote in Delaware!"
Some significant problems:
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You have to be 18 to vote, if "corporations are people", wouldn't that eliminate any corporation founded in the last 17 years?
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How would "a corporation" register to vote in the first place?
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How would "a corporation" cast a vote?
If it falls to the CEO to register and vote for the company, how is that not double voting?
If the CEO is not a resident of that town, how is that a legal vote?
Too many flaws in this story that Hartmann fails to address...
"The Galactic Senate now recognizes the representative of the Trade Federation..."
And given that it is Delaware, there will be a lot of businesses. Most of them the size of a letterbox, but usually with amazing profits or owning lots of stuff for some reason...
Are actual humans allowed to post or comment on Politics?
Edit: Thank you for giving me back my right to free speech..
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Leeja will explain how this is always been this way for long time.
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In a few weeks, my next book will be coming out, “Who Killed the American Dream: The Greatest Political Crime Ever Told,” and the timing couldn’t be more synchronous.
Not for nothing, but this whole article reads like an ad for their book.
Not that this isn't a problem, obviously, but it's also a new ruling that seems pretty likely to get thrown out on appeal. I don't think this is worth getting hysterical over.
It's also not all elections. It's limited to municipal votes where businesses own brick and mortar. The actual case is a town that's basically all businesses with few residents, as far as I can tell, and the ruling allows businesses to vote on town business only, as it effects them as well.
That said, I agree it's a bad ruling. And I agree that it should be overturned (as I think it will.) But to imply that this allows someone to spin up 100k LLCs and rig the vote for Donal Trump or something is a willful misreading of the ruling.
Yes, yes we are.
Who decides what the corporation votes for?
Yes but we're just now noticing it.
At least a couple people are.
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How many shell companies registered in Delaware do you need to throw an electric?
Delaware? That's shell company paradise.
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