• ImplyingImplications
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      9 months ago

      Companies openly giving money to politicians is USA only. In other countries it’s bribery and corruption.

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        9 months ago

        Per Anthony Kennedy and a completely fair and impartial republiQan-aligned Supreme Court, money is just another word for free speech.

        Corporations are people, my friend.

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          9 months ago

          Unless they’re responsible for a crime, then suddenly they’re a faceless abstraction, and you can’t charge those with anything silly!

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          9 months ago

          It’s the only way I support the death penalty, it’s just too bad none of them have been condemned

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        Be that as it may, not mentioning which nation the topic applies to enforces the notion that the US is the default if no other context is given.