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Thanks to the Citizen's United decision that Chinese transnational corporation has the same free speech rights to contribute to a political than an individual U

Thanks to the Citizen's United decision that Chinese transnational corporation has the same free speech rights to contribute to a political than an individual US citizen has. While a foreign country can't directly give money to a politician its trivial for them to use a cutout corporation to pass money and influence. And since we recognize corporations as people the US subsidiary of the Chinese cutout has full free speech rights and the ability to give effectively unlimited contributions to campaigns.

coldcode 9y ago
I long for the days when you had to bring bags of cash to bribe a congressperson. CU made it simple and hard to trace and even harder to prove.
- alasdair_ 9y ago
  I thought all you had to do now was pay them for a "speech" and you could give them as much cash as you wanted to.