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ryandvmyesterday at 8:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

The real breakdown in the rule of law occurred when the US Supreme Court made the specious decision that amoral business entities (corporations) had the same rights in a democracy as citizens.

All this shit flows downhill from Citizens United.


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closewithyesterday at 8:29 PM

You must be very young? These issues predate 2010 by millennia.

danarisyesterday at 8:39 PM

Citizens United was just the inevitable outgrowth of Buckley v. Valeo 50 years ago, declaring that money == speech.

That was the wellspring of all this shit.

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