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So a corporation can do bad things like poison entire communities and get out of trouble by slipping the president some money? And that's how the framers intend
by great_wubwub 1y ago
So a corporation can do bad things like poison entire communities and get out of trouble by slipping the president some money? And that's how the framers intended this to work?
We sure have come a long way since "by the people, for the people". It's the capitalist version of buying indulgences (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence). Sounds like it's time for 95 Theses II: Electric Boogaloo.
- collingreen 1y agoThis does seem to capture a lot of current events and sentiment. Corporatocracy instead of democracy.
- ekaryotic 1y agoI saw a comment saying that western democracy is a direct evolution of the roman empire and even worse when it comes to committing genocide and slavery, since there's nobody directly responsible.
- codr7 1y agoAnd the US is the latest iteration of the same imperialist bullshit mindset; or at least was until very recently, what happens from here is anyone's guess.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoTHE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED