Lobbying is a PR fluff term to disguise what we all know is outright shitbag bribery. $5000 a plate dinners are payoffs. Corporations buy our masters to become their servants and we fluff it up to, “well that’s politics!” It’s not politics. It’s fucking bullshit.
I'm fine with them donating to a campaign, as long as they are capped at what a person is capped at...its a few 1000 bucks iirc and I believe that they are limited the same way actual people are limited.
The problem isn't those donations, its the entire dark money infrastructure that was set up by Citizens United, that fucking shit needs to go imo because the donations aren't capped and these fucking companies are just pouring money into these 501c's that don't have to disclose or state anything because the dumb fucking scotus was like "oh, err, they won't coordinate with the politicians so ok derpaderp"
Fucking kill that shit and things will start to immediately improve imo
They tried to say money equals speech and if that's true than these corporations and wealthy people have WAY WAY WAYYYYYYYYY more speech than a regular person and that's a problem
Bizarre-Lazar on July 9th, 2021 at 15:49 UTC »
Lobbying is a PR fluff term to disguise what we all know is outright shitbag bribery. $5000 a plate dinners are payoffs. Corporations buy our masters to become their servants and we fluff it up to, “well that’s politics!” It’s not politics. It’s fucking bullshit.
Yabba_Dabbs on July 9th, 2021 at 16:22 UTC »
Citizens united fucking suckss
padizzledonk on July 9th, 2021 at 16:50 UTC »
I'm fine with them donating to a campaign, as long as they are capped at what a person is capped at...its a few 1000 bucks iirc and I believe that they are limited the same way actual people are limited.
The problem isn't those donations, its the entire dark money infrastructure that was set up by Citizens United, that fucking shit needs to go imo because the donations aren't capped and these fucking companies are just pouring money into these 501c's that don't have to disclose or state anything because the dumb fucking scotus was like "oh, err, they won't coordinate with the politicians so ok derpaderp"
Fucking kill that shit and things will start to immediately improve imo
They tried to say money equals speech and if that's true than these corporations and wealthy people have WAY WAY WAYYYYYYYYY more speech than a regular person and that's a problem