Massive corporations who stand to make unfathomable amounts of wealth if oversight is removed spend money to deconstruct and remove oversight.
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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Not a tough one to pick up on, is it?
Especially since SCOTUS ruled businesses are essentially people. :/
Someone should leave some weed in an Amazon warehouse and then tell the police to raid, it would be great to see an Amazon warehouse locked up for 20 years for possession =)
Corporations are people, and all people are equal, but corporations are more equal than people.
If we don't launch a general strike when the fascist Court guts the already weak NLRB then we're going to lose everything. We're already bringing back child labor, we're already not lettting people retire, we're already allowing union busting, but with the NLRB gone we're fucked.
Of all the nightmarish shit on our horizon I think this one is the biggest overall threats, if the government can’t regulate labor policies not only will worker abuse intensify but soon all regulations will fall and giant corporations will complete their transformation into mammoth entities of dystopian sci fi. Your Weyland-Yutanis, Arasakas, Shin-Ras, Choam’s, and Dutch East India Companies. And above all else climate change will not be mitigated in any way
Money speaks for money,
The Devil for his own.
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?
Ane then it'll be time to destroy things at work
SpaceX, Amazon, and Trader Joes are not mentioned in the constitution, so they should all be despanded as they are unconstitutional.
Damn you. You made my joke 8 hours ago!
So basically corporations aren't just people, they're sovereign citizens.
Fuck, that interpretation is so novel I think it might just fly with the current courts.
American corporations are becoming vassal states to the American government, who in turn, as the suzerain, limits itself to providing an army.
American corporations are becoming vassal states to the American government
Eh it's actually the reverse...
Fuck all of these people.
to me, this means its too late.
they already know the answer. the SC is bought and paid for. they have clearly already been informed that bringing this will garner the result they want.
Maybe we should argue the corporation act is unconstitutional and dissolve all corporate veils. Everything that company does, the shareholders are personally responsible for.
If unions are illegal, police unions should be illegal too.
As we all know, the law is always applied equally to cops 🙃
The law is just applied more ~~heavily~~ equally to ~~peasants~~ citizens.
Split the fuck out of Amazon and Bezos.
Considering that the literal modern social contract is predicated on, at least, the formal right to organize, which in turn is underpinned by the NLRB, if the fascist supreme court overturns it, that means workers will be footloose and fancy-free in terms of national allegiance, huh?
I’ll be more than happy to let go of the NLB if it means corporations and the ultrarich will be taxed 100% for any income or wealth above $1 million USD with any and all loopholes closed.
Unfortunately that will never happen, so it’s just fucking disgusting things with money can attempt to dictate shit like this.
Big Bootstrap is out for blood
Bezos is volunteering to be barricaded into his already burning mansion