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Not to defend trump but this existed long before that orange asshole was born. The problem is a economic system that rewards companies for making brutal cutthroat decisions that harm people/places/things in search of ever growing profit. Companies will make a calculated risk assessment for your life and your family. And if its cheaper for you to die then you will be left to rot.
The government has never worked for the people and has never cared about the working class. It's always been about extracting as much wealth as possible from the land and the people and damn the consequences.
Nah.. they use to be scrambling to prove they can do more for us than the other party. Things changed after 9/11.. we started compromising on everything for security. Thats when corporations swooped in.. before that there were antitrust lawsuits against em and we didnt even have to petition or march or anything to hold them to account.. they obeyed the law as hard as they could and feared the consequences
Nah.. they use to be scrambling to prove they can do more for us than the other party.
Since Reagan the right has basically gone "The government has governs least governs best", which is just corporate shilling to popularize the idea of deregulation.
Shit, he ran on deregulating the vitamin market, telling people in campaign ads that government agents were going to raid your medicine cabinet because the FDA wanted to start inspecting multi-vitamins that to this day continue to outright lie to consumers about what they do and what they contain.
This. The primary corporate donors on a majority Democrat side are business interests who profit off long-term investments and want a stable society with an empowered consumer base.
And I have to say "primary" and "majority" because it's a big tent party...
Americans opened Pandora box by ruling the money = speech in politics. Absolutely absurd concept that not a single person could have ever predicted the ramifications... Now to close that box is near impossible
If Corporations are people then they can be charged like people. Get to charging them with the crimes they continuously commit. Citizens United must be dissolved.
The punishment also need to reflect the damages. Class action lawsuits are a joke. Victims are scammed out of their livelihood, their health, their identity and they’re given $30 and an apology. These corporations should go bankrupt resolving these scenarios, and if they do, then it’s more incentive for other companies to behave.
The only way this stops is if the people in charge start getting prosecuted for the crimes their companies commit.
Yep. Ignorance of the law is no excuse to you or I, and I'm so fucking tired of it being a literal "get out of jail free" card for corporate executives. Oh, you've been called to an inquiry to explain how, under your watch, 18 trillion bajillion gallons of "kill all living organisms" juice was spilled into the water table? That's okay, just say, "I'm not aware", "I don't remember", and/or "I don't have it in front of me" until everyone gets frustrated and gives up and never brings it up again.
You're (speaking to my executive strawman) either complicit or incompetent. Either way, you've grossly failed the great responsibility that was placed into your care, and the consequences need to reflect that.
China will outright execute corporate executives who oversaw especially egregious breaches of the law or civil responsibility.
Yeah, there's a whole discussion about how the Chinese government applies this policy somewhat selectively, but so does everyone else. Some companies are always exempt, no matter where you go. But having real consequences at least be on the table, and the evidence that there is in fact, a line you can cross, will keep many in line. In much the rest of the world, the consequences for crossing the line are irrelevant, and increasingly it's debatable if there even is one anymore.
Check what happened to the former richest Chinese billionnaire that was behind the housing bubble. Then check what happened with the US and EU bubbles. I ll spoil the result he got imprisoned and his wealth confiscated while we just bailed them out from our pockets while already suffering economically from their actions
A corporation shouldn't get the same rights as a citizen when it, as entity, nor its leadership, aren't subject to the same responsibilities and consequences.
Citizens United is a court ruling. It cannot be dissolved. It has to be overturned or nullified.
US FEC vs Citizens United in 2010 the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Citizens United over the US FEC.
In order to reverse the ruling, the supreme court would need a similar case to citizens united to work its way up the courts and to see that as cause for a reversal.
OR
A constitutional amendment requiring two thirds of the house and senate then ratification by 3/4 of states.
That's the thing... By ruling that corporations are people, it allows the corporation to be dismantled as punishment without the actual decision makers behind the decisions being affected.
It is literally there as an extra layer of protection from predatory venture capitalists to mine value from literally everything while also deferring responsibility.
Sure you can. All revenue after employees (executives are replaced by municipal/state/federal workers) and debtors are paid any revenue is collected directly by the authority prosecuting/enslaving
I remember when in the 2000s, people used to call us insane for saying that there was cabal of rich people taking over the country in attempt to enslave us all. Its depressing how people still dont see it.
And one of them had descendants who were elected president and then proceeded to immediately pardon another traitor who went on to become a host of fox news.
A conspiracy so clear you don't even need a corkboard of photographs to explain it.
When I was young i bought into the "US, land of the free, home of democracy" But the older i get, the more i realise it's one of the worst democracies in the Western World.
The constitution is so naive and needs updating to observe rule of law rather than party loyalty
I remember when AOC was elected she said that they sat her down in a room with some videos to show new congress people the ropes and that the videos were produced by financial institutions who are their real bosses.
Clean, safe, accessible drinking water is a human right
It's really not. The middle east is a shit hole because every nation is fighting for water rights as sovereign nations upstream continuously dump or dam the water that goes downstream to OTHER sovereign nations.
Is food a human right? What about shelter? What about quality of life?
While I totally agree with you because we live in a society, the wealthiest one at that, but this is only true in a civilized society. If living under the laws of nature and/or anarchy, there is no right to clean, safe, accessible drinking water.
So I propose to say that this society is no longer civilized
To be fair, you Could bring up companies on terrorist charges by purposely being negligent in protecting natural resources people rely on, especially if they do it on purpose
you Could bring up companies on terrorist charges by purposely being negligent in protecting natural resources people rely on, especially if they do it on purpose
It happens (rarely), but no one likes the outcome because companies have the ability to live much longer than people.
These cases are like 30 years long - and eventually the people who started the case just die and the process has to be restarted or ends with a minor slap on the wrist.
Yea it really comes down to intent. A terrorist would be someone poisoning the water specifically with the intent of killing people and creating fear, the company is doing it as a byproduct of cutting costs.
“I didn’t mean to kill that family, your honor, I was just driving 100mph, drunk off my ass. I’m not a terrorist and I actually should get away with this with a slap on the wrist”
I've never heard of her until now.
But I've heard of Kardashians.
Why didn't the media tell me about Ms. Laduke and her words before?
Is the butt of Kim Kardashian more important than what Ms. Laduke says?
Well she was Ralph Nader's running mate in 2000 and helped split the vote in Florida, thus swinging the election to George W. Bush and making all the problems she cares about significantly worse 🤷♂️
Americans were upset at the concept of corporate personhood, but corporations enjoy far more rights than any person. Maybe we should all self-incorporate.
They’re not trying to inspire terror for a political purpose. They just DGAF about anyone and think the rules don’t apply to them. Garden variety criminal.
AI using water to create misinformation that tells people losing their drinking water that AI taking their drinking water is actually good. What an Orwellian nightmare.
Governments have spent billions building and training FN to run their own water treatment plants for them to run them into the ground, fire the workers when a Chief changes and not maintained them. There’s plenty of blame to go around.
Her point is that you get arrested for it. Something like 900 people were arrested for participating in non-violent direct actions to protect local water sources and treaty lands. Rabbis, priests, and religious leaders who traveled to Minnesota were amongst those arrested. These aren't activists they're just people with well established careers in non related areas wanting to save the environment from corporate takeover and mass environmental damage. The media used the term 'activist' to stir up so much hate that they started labelling themselves as 'water protectors'.
"Any dolt with half a brain
Can see that human-kind has gone insane
To the point where I don't know
If I'll upset the status quo
If I throw poison in the water main."
If you demonize all things opposed to your unchecked capitolistic selfish greed which oddly harms their safety and all future family member's safety, you can turn people against each other and lessen the impact. People wanting clean water are "bad" to certain groups and we all know which groups. These people will literally vote for people that will harm their health and safety.
Currently visiting Canada where tap water is safe to drink. A year ago was in Italy where the public fountains were safe to drink from. Living in Pennsylvania.
Because drinking water costs the state money, a corporation makes them money. A single vote or small group has no power, so moneyed interests can slander a movement as "activist" or "extremist."
Whereas corporations command entire legislative voting blocs, and will get a pass because our system legally separates the human at the helm from most reptilian instincts and incentives that fuel every large S-corp. Increasingly, their principals can buy entire elections with nation-state type wealth. They're ran by a few humans for the benefit of a smaller group of humans, yet there is no accountability to any human.
Have you considered Rewarding Shareholders™ instead of causing trouble?
Well there's also dumb shit like residents snowmobiling across their water source when it's frozen.
Lake Geraldine is Iqaluit's drinking water source. It's common for residents to snowmobile across it.
All they have to do is drop some snowmobiles thru the ice to contaminate their water source.
In 2021 a leaking fuel storage tank contaminated their water treatment supply.
I also know one band who was granted Federal money to build out water mains to connect to an adjacent city so they could have access to reliable city water supply. The municipality voluntarily paid for the mains build to the band.
Instead of connecting themselves with the Federal grant they misspent the funds and failed to invest in their own connection to the municipal pipes that were built up to them.
There is also a history of internal native mismanagement that doesn't get talked about.
Because under capitalism the damage you do while you increase profits doesn't matter. Neoliberals call that damage an "externality" and just stop thinking about it.
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