What's the point of this kind of comment? Have pro-citizen anti-corporate laws never been passed in the past?

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kevin_thibedeau 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Only when Congress might be embarrassed. The VPPA exists so we can't find out what videos they watch in their spare time between orgies.

	▲	tardedmeme 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So it should be as easy as buying tracking data and searching for Congressmen. We can put up license plate readers around Washington too, since that's legal.

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guelo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Very rarely. Most of the consumer protection laws were passed before Reagan in 1980. We did get the CFPB after the 2008 financial meltdown but it's been under attack ever since.

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wilg 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The point of the comment is to spread toxic and deadly cynicism.

	▲	arikrahman 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And also to karma farm. Thankfully the comment is greyed out for what it is.
	▲	traderj0e 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		If you never trust anyone, nobody will ever fool you except for yourself.
	▲	TheOtherHobbes 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You never see corporate media doing anything like that.

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lovich 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Doesn’t really seem like the environment where the common persons going to get more rights or protections since the POTUS and SCOTUS are currently ripping those up while Congress sits in the cuck chair.

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anonym29 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Citizens" United (which allows unlimited corporate political donations by classifying them as "speech", for those out of the loop) has fundamentally changed the core incentive structures of the modern political landscape. To compare a pre-CU world to a post-CU world when it comes to matters at the intersection of corporate interests and government regulatory / legislative power is comparing apples to oranges.

We need to overturn CU if we want to be able to go back to a world where government serves people rather than multinational conglomerates.

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parineum 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> We need to overturn CU

Or we could stop looking at SCOTUS to fix legislation and ask the branch of government who's job it is to fix legislation, Congress.

	▲	anonym29 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That would be nice in principle, yes, but in a CU world, that's asking the fox to vote to lock itself out of the hen house. In practice most of the foxes that promise to do so never actually will. What's your proposal to solve this?