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If you zoom out it's closer to, "this is an outrage. My billionaires were supposed to buy that election!"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/10/30/kamala-har...


Yes and this is why the US is a oligarchy not an autocracy (yet)

Corporate political donations and opinions should be outlawed


What is a "corporate political opinion?"

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citi...

> Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the narrow majority that limits on independent spending from corporations and other outside groups equate to limiting their speech and thus violate the First Amendment.

So basically corporate donation is corporate opinion is protected under the First Amendment


Yeah I'm familiar with Citizens United but you already said "corporate donation." So what is a "corporate opinion" as a thing distinct from a donation?

No, it's because if I said "outlaw donation" it could mean I was arguing just for the financial side of the "opinion", leaving companies free to invest in ads or propaganda as an indirect form of expressing opinion

Citizens United was an awful, anti-democratic decision, regardless of which side "your" billionaires are on.



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