#corporationsarenotpeople — Public Fediverse posts
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Say what you want about #China but at least they know how to handle #bad #companies that cause harm to others.
This happened within the first 24 hours after the fire:
"Authorities have detained a number of people who work for the factory's #owners, and the firm's #bank account was frozen, according to Xinhua."
#Prayers to the #victim's families.
#Factory #fire kills at least 28 in China's 'shoe capital'
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Money is so toxic it can cause you to mistake a corporation for living human being.
-- @ottomate
#MoneyIsNotSpeech
#CorporationsAreNotPeople
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#CitizensUnited #OverturnCitizensUnited #MoneyInPolitics #EndDarkMoney #DemocracyNotForSale #FreeSpeechForPeople #CampaignFinanceReform #CorporationsAreNotPeople #FixOurDemocracy #TheodoreRoosevelt #TeddyRoosevelt #CampaignFinance #CorporateInfluence #PoliticalHistory #GetMoneyOut #ProgressiveEra #USPolitics #PoliticalMemes #TR
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"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being."
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It was a more innocent time.
"[I]t is obvious," The New York Times said, "that a deterrent, an actual prohibition, is needed to shut off the corrupting stream that flows from corporation treasuries."
#USPolitics #MoneyInPolitics #CitizensUnited #CorporationsAreNotPeople
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Senior Democrats have called for an investigation into a share-buying spree by two fossil fuel billionaires with close ties to the Trump administration,
after a Guardian investigation raisedquestions about potential wrongdoing.Robert Pender and Michael Sabel,
the founders and co-chairs of Venture Global, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) company headquartered in Virginia,
bought more than a million shares worth almost $12m each in March.The trades took place just days after a meeting with senior White House officials, who then issued a key regulatory permit that helped expand the company’s business in Europe.
Ron Wyden, the ranking member of the Senate finance committee and a member of the energy and natural resources committee,
said the transactions should be investigated, drawing parallels with previous Trump administration controversies.“Corrupt pay-to-play schemes are at the heart of everything the Trump administration does,” Wyden said.
“There is no doubt in my mind that these new LNG transactions should be investigated so the American people know the full extent of Trump’s corruption and abuse of office.”
Wyden said investigators uncovered in 2020 that Trump’s energy secretary had inappropriately pressured a Ukrainian state-owned natural gas company
to benefit campaign donors, and added that neither Trump nor his energy team faced accountability for those abuses.Senator Chris Van Hollen echoed those concerns about potential conflicts of interest.
“The Trump administration’s blatant use of cronyism and pay-to-play politics knows no limit.
It’s clear that they’re padding the pockets of billionaires at the expense of working Americans,”
said Van Hollen, senator for Maryland, member of the Senate banking committee and ranking member of the appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Securities and Exchange Commission and justice department.
“These investments absolutely merit further investigation.”Van Hollen and Wyden’s intervention comes days after
Jeff Merkley, senior Democratic member of the Senate appropriations and budget committees, told the Guardian that
the stock trades should be investigated for potential wrongdoing.“Dirty oil-and-gas bucks are fueling the Trump administration, which should outrage all of us.
This latest reporting portrays a pattern of pay-to-play donations and favorable actions by the administration,” Merkley said.
“The timing of the stock trades certainly merits investigation for potential conflicts of interest and insider trading.”
All parties involved have denied wrongdoing.Sabel was among about 20 people who attended an event in April 2024 at Trump’s private club, Mar-a-Lago,
when the US president reportedly requested $1bn in campaign donations from the fossil fuel industry in return for favorable legislation.
Venture Global was among the “top donors” to Trump’s inauguration, donating $1m, according to the Wall Street Journal.Individuals connected to Venture Global spent $860,000 on lobbying on Capitol Hill in 2024,
and another $810,000 so far this year, according to OpenSecrets, a non-profit campaign finance watchdog.
This is more than 12-fold the previous high of $70,000 in 2019.“This is why we need to get money out of politics,” said Ro Khanna,
Democratic representative for California and member of the House oversight and accountability committee,
who is leading efforts with the representative Summer Lee to ban Super Pacs.
#MoneyIsNotSpeech #CorporationsAreNotPeople
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#OverturnCitizensUnited #CorporationsAreNOTPeople
“Americans Want Billionaires Out Of Politics—And Think They’re A Threat To Democracy, Poll Shows
A rising number of Americans believe billionaires pose a threat to democracy, newly released data shows, and seven in 10 want the ultra wealthy to play a smaller role in U.S. politics amid an administration that has publicly cozied up to the country’s richest people.” -
Podcasts are doing the work of serious investigative journalists these days now that the billionaire owners of the papers have slashed budgets and staff.
The “Master Plan” series from The Lever is incredible, and this episode in particular illustrates how conservatives overturned hundreds of years of precedent and legalized corruption by allowing non-disclosed corporate money into politics.
https://pca.st/episode/1166f655-2563-463c-ab04-a143a05601a4
#MasterPlan #SCOTUS #DarkMoney #Oligarchy #CorporationsAreNotPeople
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To answer this anon's question, we got here due to unchecked American capitalism, a lack of consumer rights protections, and lobbying. Large corporations made the everyday person used to low price tag items, and introduced the subscription model to add new features or updates to things you either already owned or wanted to own. The difference going into the 2020s and onwards is that they are revoking your ownership, and the average consumer DOES NOT KNOW THIS. It has been purposefully been hidden from them that they do not actually OWN anything they are paying for. You are buying a LICENSE TO USE THEIR PRODUCT! The only way back now is to educate not only yourself, but your friends and families as well that are not aware of these practices. I have conversations frequently with people about the behavior and most people aren't even aware its happening! Make people aware that their ownership is being stripped from them! Research the current alternatives that you're able to take advantage of, and recommend those to your friends/family. We will only have alternatives for so long before they're choked out of the market for not being profitable enough. We can already see this in the Automotive industry and Printing industry. Your only options to own your hardware with these devices now is to buy used, or pray you find something with a halfway decent EULA. Spread awareness for the takeover of ownership! We dont need to live being milked for subscriptions and poorly designed products! We can stop it if the masses are educated before its too late.
#privacy #private #owner #ownership #subscription #subscriptions #streaming #cars #automotive #activist #activism #car #fuckcars #bmw #streaming #netflix #hulu #paramount #max #disneyplus #hp #printer #4chan #capitalism #corporationsarenotpeople #corporategreed -
dear humanity,
i'm disgusted
with you
#Genocide #ClimateCrisis #ACAB #Fascism #Antifa #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #CapitalismKills #Capitalism #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #CorporationsAreNotPeople #No Millionaires #Healthcare #HousingCrisis #UBI #SupportLivingArtiists #MentalHealthMetaphor #MentalHealth
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CEOs Are Criminals, Get The Bat Signal #politicalhumor #taxtherich #eattherich #corporationsarenotpeople #crapitalism
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@Michigander and it's free! Nobody tries to steal your data or will badger you to subscribe or constantly bombard you with ads... So totally socialistic this is!
However, the #OilAndGasMafia and #CorporateAmerica are working on changing this to all become for profit experiences. Once they (helped by our lethargy, ignorance, and indifference) have fully destroyed nature we can only escape to virtual #HappyPlaces behind a paywall that are controlled by the billionaire class. #CapitalismIsADeathCult #NatureIsSocialism #NoBillionaires #CorporationsAreNotPeople #VoteForThePeople #NoLizardPeopleInWH -
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> In Q4 2023, 42% of Gen Zers admitted a willingness to engage in first-party fraud, in which they dispute a purchase with their payment provider despite the purchase being legitimate.
https://fortune.com/2024/07/01/gen-zers-disillusioned-economy-ok-commit-fraud/
#fuckCorpos #genz #theKidsAreAlright #economy #fraud #creditCard #corporationsAreNotPeople #citizensUnited
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An international #fascist movement
— led by Russia, Hungary, and China
— is on the march worldwide, and 🎯America is in its crosshairs.Case in point: Ohio Republican Senator and maximally rich dude J.D. Vance,
who dresses up his Trump/Putin toadyism in elegant garbIn an article for the m Financial Times, Vance recently wrote:
“We owe it to our European partners to be honest:
Our generosity in Ukraine is coming to an end.
Europeans should regard the conclusion of the war there as an imperative. ...
And Europe should consider how exactly it is going to live with Russia when the war in Ukraine is over.”⭐️The watershed moment in American history that led to this was when five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court ruled in #CitizensUnited (and three other decisions) that 🔥bribing US politicians is no longer bribery or political corruption 🔥
but, instead, is merely
“First Amendment-protected free speech.”The cash that rightwing billionaires, foreign governments, and corporations are stuffing into corrupt politicians’ pockets isn’t 💰“money,”
the rightwing majority on the Court ruled:
it’s First Amendment protected “free speech.”Those corporations aren’t (to paraphrase John Marshall) lifeless, soulless creations of the law:
they are, Republicans on the Court said,
🥺“persons” with a constitutional right to free speech.👉All this made us ripe for the picking by foreign governments that see the very ongoing existence of American democracy as a threat to the legitimacy of their own oligarchies.
To the point of Vance and Greene, Justice John Paul Stevens,
in his Citizens United dissent,
warned us that his five conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court had not only 💥thrown the door open to American billionaires and corporations corrupting our politicians 💥and political process:
they also, he wrote,
🔥rolled out the welcome mat to foreign governments.🔥“If taken seriously, our colleagues’ assumption that the identity of a speaker has no relevance to the Government’s ability to regulate political speech would lead to some remarkable conclusions.
“Such an assumption would have accorded the propaganda broadcasts to our troops by ‘Tokyo Rose’ during World War II the same protection as speech by Allied commanders.”
#MoneyIsNotSpeech
#CorporationsAreNotPeoplehttps://hartmannreport.com/p/is-trump-americas-new-tokyo-rose-331?r=3b1sh&triedRedirect=true
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Move to Amend's Proposed Amendment to the Constitution
#MoneyIsNotSpeech
#CorporationsAreNotPeople
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Accountable.US found ties between Leonard Leo and the following groups or their lawyers that filed amicus briefs in the 14th amendment case:
🔸Citizens United,
🔸the Public Interest Legal Foundation,
🔸the Claremont Institute,
🔸Landmark Legal Foundation,
🔸Judicial Watch,
🔸Jones Day,
🔸Wyoming’s secretary of state Chuck Gray and
🔸America’s Future.“It’s no surprise that #Leonard #Leo is backing efforts to support Trump at the supreme court,” said Accountable.US president Caroline Ciccone.
“Leo helped Trump draw up his supreme court nominee shortlist – many of whom are justices on the bench set to hear this critical case
– and now, Leo’s deploying his rightwing network in support of Trump as he faces consequences for his violent insurrection. It couldn’t be clearer where Leo stands.”🔸Citizens United, a conservative group whose name is synonymous with the 2010 supreme court ruling that allows unlimited political spending by outside groups and corporations, filed a brief alongside Steven Calabresi, Leo’s fellow co-chair of the Federalist Society.
Other lawyers tied to the society are signed on to the group’s brief as well.🔸The Public Interest Legal Foundation’s brief is co-filed with a man who has been featured in more than 100 Federalist Society events, and the group has received funding from groups tied to Leo.
🔸The Claremont Institute has also received funds from groups tied to Leo’s funding network, and the brief’s author wrote a book that includes a quote from Leo on the back cover and featured in society events.
Leo has complimented the chairman of the 🔸Landmark Legal Foundation as a “great patriot” and “our old Federalist Society stalwart”.
The 🔸Judicial Watch president is also president of the 🔸Council for National Policy, which Leo has reportedly been involved with.
🔸Jones Day, a conservative law firm whose attorneys authored an amicus brief for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has given money to the 🔸Federalist Society, and the firm is where Leo, Trump and others met to come up with a list of supreme court candidates.
The lawyers who filed 🔸Wyoming secretary of state Gray’s brief include a Federalist Society contributor who’s received a fellowship from the group.
🔸America’s Future has gotten funding from a group that’s exchanged millions with Leo’s financial network.
#authoritarianism
#darkmoney
#LeonardLeo
#MoneyIsNotSpeech
#CorporationsAreNotPeople
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Granting personhood to corporations is an absolute perversion of the principle cited in the Declaration of Independence, which explicitly states that the government of the United States was created by people and for people, and operates only by consent of the people whom it governs
#corporationsarenotpeople
#moneyisnotspeechhttps://hartmannreport.com/p/to-rescue-democracy-america-must
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@owa for those who feel like granting more power go governmental institutions is a problem in itself:
Governments should have unlimited power to go against corporations and severely limited powers to go against citizens. Corporations are not people and need to be subdued under democratic rule.
