Yup citizens United was the beginning of the fucking end.
That and the Patriot Act. W’s media image softening in the past few years has been particularly gross.
Reminds me of the suspension of habeas corpus. That alone was bone-chilling.
The bar got set way low. Even Madison is looking good these days.
What’s even more crazy is I bet it flashed through his head that it was “unfair” that even 25 million wasn’t enough to buy such a small election.
Imagine being the richest person in the world, anything and everything you want is at your fingertips.
Except true admiration.
So, you beg for attention on the internet from stangers.
Yes, I’m aware of the irony, that’s what we’re all doing here. But then, none of us can afford to buy the Presidency of The United States of America.
Eh, I hate attention… I just want to learn
What do you mean that’s what we’re all doing? I thought this was about discussion, sharing our passions and porn and stuff
Yeah. I left my 300k updoots on reddit to post here without doing it for karma.
And yes, the CEO of Dropout, Sam Reich, is Robert’s son.
As long as we have billionaires, we’ll have rulings like “citizens united”.
The only things about Elon I can think of that would please me more would be dead broke Elon. Or just plain dead Elon.
Well, imagine him being broke, homeless, despised by everyone and treated like interacting with him could lead you to the exclusion from the society. Warms your heart, doesn’t it? I don’t want him dead, I wish him worse. I want him thanking bums for pissing on him so he doesn’t lose more fingers to the frostbite and cursing himself for pushing for cutting social safety net.
You have changed my mind. Thank you.
I imagine him broke and doing Cameos and everyone makimg him say “Hello my daughter! Sorry your father is such a nazi piece of shit. You deserved a better father.”
Agreed.
Elon Musk obtained $213billion last year. Given a 40 hour work week, that means the $25million is about 15min of work. I kind of doubt he actually works that long, but I do not want to be too mean.
A little less conversation, a lotta more action. Direct action.
come on, man! they had SIGNS! they CHANTED! what more could you possibly ask of a country of fat idiots?
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How does one overturn citizens united without overturning the Constitution?
Interpretation of the constitution changes with the times.
And exactly how do you reinterpret The Constitution to reach your goal of overturning Citizens United?
Probably by getting judges who are simply willing to acknowledge corporations aren’t people.
Exactly this.
Great. Thanks, Robert. Wonderful idea. Can’t believe we hadn’t thought of that already. Such insight. Much brain.
So the proposal is to eliminate the right to free association?
Elon Musk isn’t the richest man in the world. Not even close. The founder and CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, is the richest. #BlackRock is worth over 10 Trillion dollars and they own everything. Elon owns Twitter. Larry Fink owns all the news networks and oil companies, chemical companies, tobacco companies, military industrial companies. The list goes on forever. #LarryFink #Oligarchy
Is everyone just blatantly lying then? Because according to a google search, Elon Musk is worth 300+B, and Larry Fink is worth… 1.2B.
Are you taking the 10 Trillion number from
Founded in 1988, initially as an enterprise risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with US$11.5 trillion in assets under management as of 2024.
Because “assets under management” and “money that Larry Fink personally has” aren’t the same thing.
Or is this some conspiracy theory shit?
They used hashtags in the comment, makes me think it might just be a joke
Depends how much influence Blackrock exerts with their voting power.
Not a conspiracy or a theory or even a hypothesis. Fink is the founder and CEO of BlackRock which means it’s assets are his assets. BlackRock is a major shareholder in thousands of corporations and wealth management funds BlackRock has 10.5 Trillion dollars worth assets under management. Between BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street they basically own the planet. BlackRock / Fink could buy all of Elon Musk’s assets and burn them 100 times over and still have more than Elon Musk. BlackRock is the principle shareholder in many news organizations and or their parent companies. Fox is the only major network that has, NOT BlackRock, as their biggest shareholder but BlackRock is number 2 at Fox.
Fink is the founder and CEO of BlackRock which means it’s assets are his assets.
It’s a publicly traded company, so no. It’s assets are not his assets.
