Reposting flemco again....

[digitaldiscipline]

We are totally, incontrovertibly, purely fucked.

This is one reason why I find the Teabaggers hilarious: as patriots, they're willing to make inadvertently funny signs showing Obama as Hitler, the government as the KKK, Mexicans as Jihadists, tax dollars as blood seeping from a baby... but not one peep about the businesses that run the government.

Dark days ahead, folks.

If we were to start an anti-teabag group, what would we call it? "Facefuckers" has a nice ring to it, maybe?

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Okay, this is me. It would be nice if the gov't wasn't so obviously in the financial thrall of business and moneyed interests, wouldn't it? Or if some of those supposedly 'activist' judges on the SCOTUS would stand up and say YO, MOTHERFUCKERS, THAT SHIT'S ILLEGAL.

I have very, very big problems with companies being afforded the same rights as citizens. They are, at best, assoholes and sociopaths - out to further their own aims and fuck everyone else.

Comments

[razerwolfe.livejournal.com]

The decision was 5-4, so some people disagreed with the majority; there mercifully weren't enough of them to become the majority. The pendulum, she swings.

[satorisearching.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but cases like this don't come up every year. And the next couple likely SCOTUS retirements are Stephens and Ginsberg, who were in the minority on this, anyway.

The pendulum swings very slowly, sometimes.

[kest]

Here's the thing. I can almost understand the logic they're following there. Freedom of speech, first amendment rights, etc. all sounds like good stuff. But...part of freedom is equality, surely? Is speech really free when it is sold to the highest bidder? And when it comes to campaigning and all of that complicated corrupting feedback loop stuff...we outlaw cigarette ads and we regulate how close to the voting booth you can put a campaign poster...how is that regulating campaign ads is not ok?

And the corporation personhood thing has really just got to go.

[chromeangel.livejournal.com]

Megacorps here we come

Now we just need the Goblinization and things will be awesome...

[caias.livejournal.com]

Considering the ability to form a corporation is a privilege, seems pretty ass-backwards to give such an entity the same rights as a born person.

[david-deacon.livejournal.com]

If we were to start an anti-teabag group, what would we call it?

The Coffee Grinders.

[onezumi.livejournal.com]

I was just saying the same thing a few minutes ago. My exact words, "Well, we are fucked."

[happygoth.livejournal.com]

FUUUUUUUCK.

This has made me angry all day.

Mostly that they had the gall to go through the Supreme Court, because they knew nobody would vote for if they did it the correct way (i.e. Congress and a vote and all that).


Grrrrrrr. So. Angry.