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This is the same craziness sovereign citizens try to pass off in court as legal justification for whatever actions they took, but actually accepted by a just as unhinged judge
Does this mean that a company that outcompetes another into dissolving can be accused of manslaughter?
If money is speech why can't you pay rent with poem?
Can I marry a corporation?
SCOTUS has sided with businesses regarding personhood since the 14th amendment was passed. Citizens United wasn't an isolated incident.
This is insane:
“According to the law, a person is anyone or anything that can initiate and be subject to legal proceedings.
This is turning things totally on it's head. Companies are defined as legal persons exactly so they can be sued, and are responsible to the law. Not the other way around.
By this standard a company that doesn't make money should also have the right to social welfare, and when it gets old to receive a pension.
This is absolute madness, and in no way within what it means to be a legal person in any civilized country.
A legal person does not have for instance citizenship, a legal person does not have human rights, and maybe most importantly a legal person cannot go to jail. Only REAL people can do those things.
The reason it's called a "legal" person is exactly because it is not a REAL person, and for instance doesn't have a right to vote, because a legal person is not a citizen.
USA is such a shitty and insane country it's impossible to put into a few words exactly how bad it is.
The only thing I appreciated in the article was that the judge said that a fetus wasn't a person.
Clearly the fetus should incorporate
Yes, until the next case where it is. 🤡
So if I start up a thousand businesses in town I can make myself mayor?
They have to own land according to the ruling. So you also have to sell each of them a square inch off the back of your lot. (I've seen nothing about the land needing to be buildable or habitable). IANAL though
This timeline is so stupid it hurts.
Jim Crow laws against working class next Delaware? Unironically the real great replacement theory is just rich fucks signing a stack of forms.
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