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What's the point of this kind of comment? Have pro-citizen anti-corporate laws never been passed in the past?
by post-it 5mo ago
What's the point of this kind of comment? Have pro-citizen anti-corporate laws never been passed in the past?
- wilg 5mo agoThe point of the comment is to spread toxic and deadly cynicism.
- traderj0e 5mo agoIf you never trust anyone, nobody will ever fool you except for yourself.
- arikrahman 5mo agoAnd also to karma farm. Thankfully the comment is greyed out for what it is.
- TheOtherHobbes 5mo agoYou never see corporate media doing anything like that.
- kevin_thibedeau 5mo agoOnly when Congress might be embarrassed. The VPPA exists so we can't find out what videos they watch in their spare time between orgies.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoSo it should be as easy as buying tracking data and searching for Congressmen. We can put up license plate readers around Washington too, since that's legal.
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- guelo 5mo agoVery rarely. Most of the consumer protection laws were passed before Reagan in 1980. We did get the CFPB after the 2008 financial meltdown but it's been under attack ever since.
- anonym29 5mo ago"Citizens" United (which allows unlimited corporate political donations by classifying them as "speech", for those out of the loop) has fundamentally changed the core incentive structures of the modern political landscape. To compare a pre-CU world to a post-CU world when it comes to matters at the intersection of corporate interests and government regulatory / legislative power is comparing apples to oranges. We need to overturn CU if we want to be able to go back to a world where government serves people rather than multinational conglomerates.
- parineum 5mo ago> We need to overturn CU Or we could stop looking at SCOTUS to fix legislation and ask the branch of government who's job it is to fix legislation, Congress.
- anonym29 5mo agoThat would be nice in principle, yes, but in a CU world, that's asking the fox to vote to lock itself out of the hen house. In practice most of the foxes that promise to do so never actually will. What's your proposal to solve this?
- parineum 5mo agoFrankly, I think it's much less of an issue than it's made out to be. If money meant so much, Donald Trump wouldn't have beat Jeb Bush on the way to beating Hilary Clinton. To me, money in politics is the red herring to keep you from looking at the real election reform that needs to happen, some combination of open primaries (to remove the effect of primaries going to more extreme candidates rather than centrists) and an alternative to first past the post elections to allow people to vote for who they like without worrying about throwing away their votes (there are many different systems to do this, they're all major improvements). The money in politics is used by the parties to back their preferred candidates and the voters go along with it in the general elections because they don't want to waste their votes. The money helps them do the bad thing but it isn't the bad thing.
- lovich 5mo agoDoesn’t really seem like the environment where the common persons going to get more rights or protections since the POTUS and SCOTUS are currently ripping those up while Congress sits in the cuck chair.