What the fuck‽ This needs to be banned immediately
Also this is super easy to game
The reason corporations exist is to separate company finances from personal finances. Not this newly made up voting BS.
Ah, taking a play out of the ol’ “City Of London” book!
Why go through all the trouble of simulating that you have a Democracy by having Money sponsoring politicians in a system where only a few politicians can de facto be elected, when you can have Money just directly vote?!
Seems a lot more efficient if you remove intermediary steps and middlemen.
Also removing all the smoke & mirrors is a lot more honest.
I am actually surprised they’ve become so open about the system being an Oligarchy rather than a Democracy.
What the fuck are we doing Delaware?
Delaware itself is just a shell corporation, tbh
Delaware, Inc.
A Delaware Corporation
Zappa said something like, "They’ve moved the tables and chairs out of the way and pulled the curtains back so we can see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
Zappa was libertarian, iirc, but that was when the word hadn’t been bastardized, yet.
Grifting for tax dollars. They are cucks for businesses. There are less people than businesses and the state government knows what side their bread is buttered on
As people have been saying for years, I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.
If companies can vote, have free speech rights, and are people then why is it legal for one company to own another? Isn’t that slavery?
I also never see companies go to jail.
Bold of you to assume slavery is illegal in America. Every “prisoner witha job” in a for-profit prison is a victim of the 13th amendment.
That assumes a corporation can be convicted of a crime.
Bold of you to make the same exact comment made on Lemmy every single time slavery is mentioned.
Absolutely fair lmao, I was braindead and cranky at the time.
How? Wouldn’t they have to go through a voter registration process that requires a voter id and ss#, and who casts the vote? The CEO or someone selected from the board?.. and couldn’t some rich asshole just start a whole bunch of corporations to give themselves as many votes as they want? This blatantly goes against the one person one vote principle.
Here’s a fun way to fast track this descent into corporate hell: one vote per share.
I am going to incorporate a new company and issue eleventy billion shares to myself
New rule: incorporating now costs $100,000 per share. Pre-existing corporation are exempt from this fee, of course.
The wild thing is that because of Delaware’s tax laws, a LOT of businesses are registered in that state. This is honestly bonkers to me.
No no no, those rules are for people. Silly peasant. Corporate people don’t have to do those silly things
The lawsuit [doesn’t] show “that entity property owners vote sufficiently as a bloc to usually defeat the preferred candidates of natural persons…”
This is “no harm no foul,” except it’s a judge and he’s actually making this argument seriously.
“Persons” don’t vote. Citizens do.
Just to drive that home, here are the voting requirements from the Delaware Dept. of Elections:
You may register to vote in Delaware if you:
- Are a citizen of the United States; AND
- Are a resident of Delaware (Delaware is your home); AND
- Will be 18 years old on or before the date of the next General Election.
I don’t see how any of the listed entities could meet those criteria.
Some corporations are over 18 years of age, so no problem there. And we already know that they’re citizens, while the plebian inhabitants of the country are merely consumers. So it all works out.
If you’re referring to the Citizens United ruling, you should know that it did not establish that corporations are citizens, at all. It simply allowed that money spent by corporations on political candidates is a form of free speech, and it got rid of a bunch of limits on political spending. Which is certainly bad enough, but it in no way paves the way for a company to be a citizen or have a vote.
Simple, they just won’t bother. They will vote and take everyone to court. That’s the point.
Kind of difficult to vote if you aren’t registered, despite what Republicans would have you believe.
Oooh, this means we can denaturalize and deport corporations now!
Most left for tax havens years ago
Ok, and if they’re people then we can apply legal ramifications to them, right? Right?!?!
How can you vote as an individual and corporate entity? Could one not just incorporate hundreds of companies just to annihilate other voters?
There are more businesses than people in Delaware. The registered businesses outnumber the population 2:1.
This blatantly renders human voters meaningless without businesses to back your opinion.
“A novel ruling,” Christ almighty.
Karsnitz dismissed the lawsuit from Delaware’s Superior Court, citing “the principle of one person/entity/one vote.”
This is how you get people to bring back dragging someone into the street and horsewhipping them. I’m not advocating it, it’s just the natural response some people are going to have to being told corporations get to vote in a state with more corporations than people.
But you can invent entities overnight and without limit. These corpos gotta wait 18 years to vote?
If companies can vote, they should be subject to the death penalty like everyone else.
So… if I own a company and spin off… oh, lets say a million shell corporations, have I generated a million voters?
How does a corporation aquire the necessary citizenship to vote?
