• Ulvain
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    Wasn’t that the whole crux of Citizens United?

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      CU vs FEC was specifically about campaign financing, but yeah basically ruled that organizations like corporations are protected by 1A, and money counts as free speech.

      Which is obviously bullshit on every level, but just one way that a SCOTUS with a few corrupt individuals can destroy democracy for an entire country.

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        They ruled that people acting together have all the same rights that they would have acting individually, and that preventing someone from spending money on producing and promoting their speech effectively prevents them from being heard. Which are both perfectly true, common-sense statements.

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          They ruled that people acting together have all the same rights that they would have acting individually

          Bullshit, corporations are not “people acting together”, they’re autocratic command structures where one or few people hold all the power.

          preventing someone from spending money on producing and promoting their speech effectively prevents them from being heard

          Also total bullshit, unless you agree that allowing people to be poor is a violation of the first amendment, because being poor effectively prevents them from being heard. Which you won’t.

          Which are both perfectly true, common-sense statements

          I’m already confident you don’t have a single ounce of common sense in your empty head after reading those two sentences.