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"https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporations-can-vote-in-delaware",
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"textContent": "submitted by floofloof to usa\n11 points | 1 comments\nhttps://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporations-can-vote-in-delaware\n\ncross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/65680179\n\n> > Seriously. Not dystopian science fiction or a new novel by an AI version of George Orwell. Actual corporations — what America’s first Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall, in 1819 called “an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law” — are today voting in elections for everything from the mayor and town council to referendums on corporate taxes and limits on corporate behavior.\n>\n>> What could possibly go wrong?\n>\n>> There are, after all, more corporations than people in Delaware. They can now decide who’s going to run the government, what the laws are, and — through their votes to elect humans who’ll take corporate money to do what corporations want (something else that corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court legalized) — even what regulations companies must follow and what limits there are on their behavior.",
"title": "In Delaware, Corporations Can Now Vote. Are We Insane?"
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