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Fuck Citizens United.

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Just gonna leave this here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_(organization)

The current president, David Bossie… served in executive positions for President Donald Trump’s and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection campaigns.

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As I always say;
The rivers of ruin run deep.

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More swampy than a river imo

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Thanks a lot John Roberts and Sam Alito for fucking up our politics. Citizens United may be the worst Supreme Court decision since the Civil War

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There’s a conservative group trying to use Dred Scott as a precedent to disqualify Kamala Harris. The civil war never ended, it just went cold.

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Imagine this money put into public healthcare…

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Every drop helps, but the US spends around $4.5 trillion annually on healthcare. If we changed to single-payer, cut out the middle-man multi-pipeline network of private insurers thereby also lowering administrative overhead that last I checked was around 30%… We would likely achieve what most other nations are achieving at half the per-capita cost we pay now.

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Citizens United.

But just a few, incredibly rich ones. So it’s like the opposite of what the name seems to imply.

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“We The People” never included the peasants.

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They always give these draconian laws positive sounding names. Also, all that disposable money could’ve be used for social programs through taxation

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What law are you referring to?

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They appear to be mistaking the shorthand for the Supreme Court ruling to be the name of a law. In fairness, bills do often have overly patriotic names that hide their paradoxical purposes.

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The ministry of Truth would never lie! It’s right there in the name!

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Well the same principle is at play here, since Citizens United is a deceitful name for an astroturfed, billionaire-funded organization that had absolutely no involvement from ordinary citizens.

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Typically, the collection of judicial opinions are referred to as “case law” if one wanted to be generous.

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