Corporations are people
>>78589768
They are formed by people and run by people and what's good for them is good for the people
Nice 2012 meme
>>78589281
What was his name again?
>>78589838
How does that make a corporation people?
An ant hill is made by ants, inhabited by ants, and serves the interests of ants, but it's not an ant.
It's true, I met a corporation the other day and he was an honest chap
>>78590018
What's good for the anthill is good for the ants
>>78589885
R-Money
>>78589281
>TFW there are 36 genders
>TFW none of them are corporation
What is this blatant bigotry?
>>78590119
and if the anthill is made of toxic waste?
>>78589885
Mexican Romney
Corporations are for the shareholders. i.e. the Elites/Upper Class. Build your own foundation. One does not get rich being an employee.
>>78590814
>not being a shareholder
What are you, poor? a NEET?
Thanks Wal-Mart glad your employees are at work and not posting excrement online.
If corporations weren't treated as people for legal purposes, you wouldn't be able to sue them like a person. So if a walmart truck driver swerved off the road and crippled you while you were standing on a sidewalk, you'd only be able to sue the driver, not the company.
>>78590018
The issue and the comment was specifically to the point of weather or not the Democrats should feel entitled to silence people, the ants, who formed, ran and benefited from corporations.
The question ought to be why in the view of the left are unions owed more rights in their world than corporations.
>>78591487
opposition to citizens united essentially comes down to "i don't want entities i don't agree with making political contributions"
>>78590052
>>78589281
I will NEVER let my daughter date a corporation.
>>78591281
It's not black and white chief. You can sue organized groups of people.
>>78591636
Allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on politicians allows them to tip the scales of democracy. If you support citizens united and you aren't rich as god you are submissive baby back bitch who hates freedom.
>>78591636
Exactlty.
>>78591975
>>78591975
>Allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on politicians allows them to tip the scales of democracy. But lay off our unions. That's perfectly legit.
>>78591975
So? Nothing stops you from making a corporation and spending unlimited money on your candidate. The system is fair
>>78592120
Unions represent the working class and work for working class intetests.
Trump rides on anger towards the political establishment and the state-corporate elite. Who do you think is in that privileged bunch? It sure as shit not the plumbers and auto workers union members and leaders.
Why people in this country insist on voting against their own interests is beyond me.
>>78589281
The "corporations are people" is a term that is used in law to describe CERTAIN applications of law to corporations.
For example, corporations have the right to stand trial like people do. The government can't send in police to steal a corporation's property with out going through a legal process. So instead of writing out the whole due process laws again for corporations, the law just simply states "in this instance a corporation is to be a person."
On the other hand, there are situations where a corporation isn't a person (voting). It is all about keeping regulations efficient.
For some reason, ignorant leftists can't wrap their heads around this idea and choose to make this phrase out to be something it is not.
>>78589281
Except when it comes to pleading the Fifth.
>>78592657
voting for trump is not in anyone's interests but i wouldn't expect an entitled machine operator to understand that
>>78592120
>unions are somehow worse than MNCs who buy out your politicians en masse to rig the game in their favor against you
You are being fucked harder than a white girl in a crackhouse Your brain has been hijacked and turned against you by people far more intelligent than you.
>>78592606
>Looking at a societal problem on an individual level
>>78592657
>a certain class of people deserve their political activity, which I will deny to another class of people.
And that's why the supreme court ruled against your disgusting, partisan, and anti-American point of view.
I'm not a Trumpfag, so don't think you're going to use him as a tool to bait me.
>>78592998
>Your brain has been hijacked and turned against you by people far more intelligent than you.
You've basically described the average Sanders/Trump voter
>>78592893
This.
It's basically a litmus test to determine whether you are too ignorant to have a meaningful political opinion.
>>78593267
Clinton
Trump
Sanders
One of these is bought out by the biggest financial institutions in the United States, can you guess which one??
>>78593715
>One of these is bought out by the biggest financial institutions in the United States
Ummm utterly incorrect
>>78593337
>says the guy supporting one of the most blatant offenses to democracy in the history of the United States
>>78589281
I like how he tried to make Trump's tax returns an issue after not releasing his for the longest time during the 2012 campaign
Fuck this mormon piece of shit
>>78593836
Interesting, now who gets paid millions to have private speeches to financial institutions with secret transcripts? Is it Sanders?... doesn't seem right. Trump maybe? No he seems to use his own money.. Oh yeah
>>78589281
Legal entity != person
>>78594288
Tell that to Alito in his Hobby Lobby opinion.
>>78594186
There is literally nothing wrong with making paid speeches - all kinds of people do it all the time.
If Trump had any relevance he'd be doing it too, but he is reduced to hustling old men with more money than sense at his """"""""""university""""""""""
>>78594478
Hillary please go
>>78594478
You are so obviously a shill it's not even funny. Jesus fucking Christ you guys are bad at social psychology. I hate these people, I'm a leftist and I can blend in when I want to but I'm not being paid for it.
Tell your boss you're fuckin useless bro.
>>78593977
>>says the guy supporting one of the most blatant offenses to democracy in the history of the United States
Proving my point.
Everything you speak through except your own whingy voice is provided to you by a corporation...4chan, newspaper, radio, tv, your computer, a megaphone, your church, greenpeace, etc.
>>78595098
>I know, I'll call him a shill
Yes, so different from the Trump crowd, Mr. Sanders supporter.
>>78595098
Not an argument
>>78595230
Nice primetime MSM tier strawman.
That's not the point. I don't care that corporations exist, I care that they are allowed to buy politicians with an even more efficient method they had before.
>>78589281
>>78594186
>secret transcripts
>implying there are transcripts
>implying there was ever a speech
>implying those """speeches""" aren't just bribes
>>78589281
>Corporations are people
That pathologically seek profit at the expense of all life on the planet.
>>78595274
If you don't know that the internet and /pol/ is flooded with shills by 2016 you might as well get neutered because it's so goddamn obvious and their existence is constantly leaked.
>>78595302
Yeah, you're paid to be here and are trained in manipulation. You don't have genuine intent, it's a valid argument.
>>78595485
So corporations like greenpeace or the ny times should have their political speech regulated?
Do you see how stupid you sound?
I think you are just funnin' but want to be sure.
>>78595705
If you seriously do believe that there is no hope for you
>>78594478
>Release the transcripts plox
>>78595594
Lol fair point. It's basically just selling bribes.
>>78593133
The system is rigged in favor of the rich. It's socialism for them, capitalism for the rest of us.
Why not slightly rig it in favor of the 99%, of which you belong? And keep in mind that "slightly rigging the system in favor of the 99%" entails shit like affordable education and healthcare, not a pass on illegal behavior, being above the law and controlling our political institutions.
I guess I can't talk sense into a retarded right winger that is so cucked by the upper class that they think organized labor and democratic power sharing is somehow un-American. Go and take Reagan's cock up your ass some more. His seed will trickle down on you, just keep waiting. You're a Republican so gutless that you're not even supporting Trump on the one thing he is right about: you are a true conservacuck, congratulations, go run to your masters.
>>78595485
Maybe if those politicians weren't such a valuable thing, there wouldn't be as much of a lure to buy them, hmm?
>>78595775
Elections should be publicly funded. I don't want any corporation or powerful entity funneling money toward candidates. It's open corruption.
>>78595776
Now tell me, what were those millions spent on internet astroturfing? What was done with that money anon? Surely not internet sockpuppets right?
>>78595878
It's a decent argument for small government conservatism, but there are other solutions as well. Public funded campaigns is a nice start.
>>78596099
On 4chan? No campaign has been that sophisticated
>>78590052
Kek
>>78589281
>>78590159
>>78590633
>>78595496
>/pol/ unironically using 4 year old reddit memes
fucking kek
>>78596289
Lmao literally the easiest site to astroturf. No account history avaliable to your average user, anonymous posters.
I am corporation-kin, shitlords
>>78590018
Citizens United made unlimited spending by unions legal to, which are much more likely to use privilege, so fuck off.
>>78591975
So what about news organizations?
They need to spend money to operate
>>78595831
I'm a member of the 100%, and the one, not even a Republican. I don't recognize the legitimacy of your class war. It doesn't serve me.
>let's rig this thing
If you are confronted with a wrong, as you maintain is a system is rigged in favor of the rich, you propose another wrong to right it.
Disgusting, as I said.
>>78596179
More control to unelected regulators is never the solution, more so that the thing you propose be regulated is political activity itself. It seems that giving that power away in our present circumstances of a massive inducement to control is a huge mistake.
>>78596099
>Elections should be publicly funded. I don't want any corporation or powerful entity funneling money toward candidates. It's open corruption.
You think it is less corrupt for Congress to decide who will have enough money to run for Congress?
>>78595302
Not a counter
>>78597543
There are ways to do it. Countries all over the world do this successfully.
>>78597396
I fully respect your argument and believe you're the most right.
>>78596895
Fuck them they're all infiltrated and bought out by the same financial institutions that buy our politicians. When the same institutions own Clinton, CNN and our central bank Americans start to realize something is fucked up
