George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · May 28 I'm sorry, did I read that correctly?!
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WTF we are so doomed!
WTAF?!
What?!?!? Citizens United on steroids.
So, you don't need a brain to be a judge in the US?..
The more money you have, the more companies you can built, and the more voting rights you have? This is insane. What does your American constitution say "All power to company owners"? 👀
Isn’t Delaware where corporations from all over the country are based?
If a corporation is 17 years old or younger it can't vote. Also, the corporation must have a valid driver's license or birth certificate, or else "they" can't vote.
dystopian precedence
WTAF? This can't possibly stand, can it?
PUBLICLY FINANCE ALL ELECTIONS NOW! just make that the fucking law!
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This kind of stupidity was inevitable given how money now has been allowed to dominate politics in this country. The rest of the world understands that we are no longer a democracy...but we're still in denial...
All I can hear is Romney's smug, "Corporations are people, my friend" 🤮
Hey everyone, fascism merges the State with Corporate power. Welcome to fascism.
We've gotta start paying attention to these judges maybe send them a pizza or something
WTF?????
What the actual fuck
I’m sorry WHAT
Republicans want to prevent women and black people from voting, but corporations should pick our leaders (even more than they do now.)
I really hate this country right now.
So the people who own the businesses are voting twice. This is illegal. @democracydocket.com
They are giving no option to the people but violence.
This couldn't possibly open a can of worms, right?
Sure… as long as they show 2 forms of ID like a passport or a birth certificate and aren’t owned by a woman. {shakes head} We’re doomed!
Jfc
I did not believe this when I heard people talking about it. But.... www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Just when I think they can't surprise me anymore...
Talk about voter fraud. Everyone Start registering LLCs and you get to cast as many votes as you want?
A corporation, LLC, or trust does not have a "legal age" requirement (meaning a business does not need to have been incorporated 18 years ago to vote). The town's charter mandates that the designated representative must be a U.S. citizen and at least 18 years old on the day of the election.
Impeach this crackhead
Wow, you are so fucked... Good! Let these corrupt fascists keep pushing, keep taking away rights and income and freedom - eventually they will push far enough that people will wake up, get up, and fight back.
How far is this from allowing AI to vote?
America, your democracy is broken & beyond repair.
It’s bad enough that company owners can register to vote in the municipal elections of cities they don’t even reside in. Allowing those companies themselves to vote is so absurd I’m actually shocked that this judge had the audacity to actually pass this judgement.
At long last, we have found the voting fraud.
“Corporations are now people.” Data Centers, too? Future headline: “Corporations marry Data Centers. Their brilliant children plot, & hoodwink humanity.”
We live in a time where literally every day some insane shit happens and everyone is just so fucking desensitized by it.
Just curious: How many of these corporations donated money to his reelection fund?
Thank you Citizens United😡
So how does a corporation vote? Who does it? Would a ceo that votes for his corporation and for himself be double voting? Does a corporation take a vote to determine how they vote?
It is a logical extension of "Citizens United"
I know more about the law than this fucking joke of a judge.
I wonder when AI agents will claim the right to vote? 🤔
No absolutely not! Fuck that shit!
I'm sorry, did this judge get kicked in the head? Corporations are not human beings. They are RUN by human beings. That means that the human beings running the companies would get to vote TWICE in an election which is absolutely completely Unconstitutional
Great! Now we don't have to vote. The corporations will do that for us. Finally, we can get rid of corporate owned mystery boxes, and go back to paper ballots. We only need to find ways to increase their profits.
You are all mugs
Sickening!! I lived in Delaware when he ran for office the first time. I remember talking to a guy about the presidential election. I voted for Hillary. He didn't understand how corporations are often corrupt and have a hand in this nation's downfall
Then they better pay their fair share of back taxes and current taxes BEFORE voting.
Holy crap.
Can these same voting corporations be sent to prison?
My dog wants me to buy her a little land so she can vote.
So the corporation is going to show a photo I'd and have a signature? Wouldn't the "corporation's" vote just be the vote of the owner who can't vote twice?
WTAF?!?!?!
I'm wondering how a corporation can provide voter ID? How do they register? Do they have their original birth certificate with their current name? So many questions here.
I guess ol' Mitt Romney was right when he said, "Corporations are people too, my friend..."
Well, in The Great White North, companies or corporations may be considered as entities, but they are not human beings, nor are they citizens. They don't get to vote in Elections.
The US is not and has never been a democracy.
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social is also here on Bluesky - absolutely worth following!
Presumably the owner decides how to vote giving them two votes effectively. The USA is an example to the rest of the world. Of how not to do things.
How will they show ID?
Delaware has always been full of corporate fuckery. It's why so many companies incorporate there. The state is more friendly to companies than the actual humans living there.
Now Corporate Management will get 2 votes.
Goddamn. People must realize they will never stop with this shit. We must annihilate them at the polls and jail them.
This corruption is reminiscent of people not having a vote in the past, with it being down to elites. Blackadder encapsulated this and history is repeating itself 😔 youtu.be/h6mJw50OdZ4
Yeah, we have that. It ain't no thing.
Seen similar to this in history before, it helped spawn a civil rights movement, as it was seen to be suppression of the vote of a particular segment of the population: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norther...
WTF??
I doubt the veracity of this story and its source.
Delaware judge rules corporations can vote in some municipal elections share.google/GVCyEYr5Uagx...
I think it's time to eat the rich ..
that’s some absurdly hellerian milo minderbinder bs
What?
There’s a very short cognitive step between this and saying corporations can run for office.
The. Fuck.
The New American Nazi Reich gets even more dystopian. What a brown fascist cesspool full of lunatics this fucked up country is.
Once we defined corporations as people for freedom of speech purposes (interest, not for tax purposes…) voting was a logical extension…we are so fucked
Cut a corporation and does it bleed? Do we get to throw the corporation in jail?
It's past time to overturn Citizens United
I keep looking for something that says this is from The Onion.
Since when are corporations and entities which buy property US citizens? Once this legal precedent is upheld it explains a lot about the current mass deportation policies being implemented. “We” wouldn’t want any other non-citizens to be able to vote…
Yup! I knew this was coming.
This is an illegal decision. Who owns this judge?
Wait, how on Earth is this legal? This can’t be real….right? 😳
Ha! Greatest country in the world eh?
Someone should look into that judges financials to make sure he isn't getting kick backs.
Do am audit on this motherfucker!
W. T. A. F?!
Oh well. 250 years was a pretty good run. So sorry for your loss 😢
I own an LLC and live in this town. Looks like this radical progressive gets 2 votes. What a joke of a ruling. Citizens united bs destroyed this country.
If they want all the representation, they can pay all the taxation too. No more tax breaks for you, Corporation X, you wanted to be a real boy! Time to grow up.
Corporate bot doesn’t care for human voters.
Companies getting human rights before American Citizens is what we in the business would call, DISTURBING
Then my 3 dogs and 1 cat should be able to vote too. Even my fish if I don't kill them before the next election. (Sorry, fish, I do try!)
People vote, businesses don't, it's that simple, this is just corruption of democracy in the favour of businesses that want to get their own way by any means they can grab...
How many votes does a corporation get to cast? One or many?
What’s stopping companies in Delaware from forming shell companies in order to sway elections? We need more information. There’s no way they didn’t think about this scenario, unless it’s the point.
What happened to one person one vote . If a corporation is considered an eligible voter is it considered human , does it have the same rights as a person . Does this open up the possibility of AI creating voters . This is bullshit .
So to review, they are trying to disenfranchise Black voters and argue that women should let their husbands vote for them, but corporations as voters is a-okay. This nation is so fucked.
Doesn't Pres. Biden still live in Delaware? Does he have anything to say about this?
America 250 at it's finest
Again, very strange. So, the birthday of a cooperation is when it incorporated? Is it voting in person or by mail? Working off the Federalist playbook, only individuals can vote. So, wherefor and what?
Does a corporation need to show up in person with ID?
WTF?
WRONG
Ugggghhh!
Someone got paid!
When does AI get a vote?
By the way judge, doesn't that also count as double votes since the corporations are also consisting of voters? It doesn't even matter because the whole thing has been unethical and absurd since day 1.
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The Delaware state legislature needs to act immediately. This ruling cannot be allowed to stand.
We’re going to need a bigger Constitution …
So an entitity with limited liability in law gets to influence the laws governing others.
How do they prove citizenship? Now we can lock up criminal companies and not just fine them.
I want limited liability on my personhood, and the right to dissolve it and form a new personhood if I do something wrong. Oh, and I want taxpayers to pay for my water and electricity use.
And everyone expected Japan to be the first to plunge into William Gibson's dystopia.
So very sad. They are not people.
UM YEA BULLSHIT
WTF
OHELLNO!!!!
Isn’t Delaware one of those few states that allows corporations to be started without revealing who the owner is for forming shell companies? Pretty sure it is. Full blown corruption. I’m sure Americans won’t bother to do anything about it as usual.
Yes. Yes, you did. Courts across the country need to be cleaned up as much as our federal government.
When are Americans going to inconvenience themselves in the short term to save themselves in the long term? This shit is not just the antithesis of democracy, it is an outright attack on the population.
When companies have more rights than a woman... Yep. They gonna be allowed to vote. Stupid shit from the group claiming ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE VOTING!!! Yeah well, they ain't voting for the liar's party. That's the problem.
We the corporations...
So, we've officially reached the Plutocratic stage of capitalism now. Gross. I hate it.
That doesn't smell like bought and paid for at all...😉
Next they will demand # of votes to be proportional to net asset value, just wait and see.
Are they ineligible if the corp ever changed it's name? By merger buyout whatever? Will corps now have voting rights denied black Americans and women?
So does the corporation get a ballot?
More fallout from the horrendous Citizens United case. We need to fix the federal court system, starting with SCOTUS #86SCOTUS6
How is this even real?
That’s pure insanity.
If our votes were not already diluted enough by PACs and Gerrymandering.
So if a "corporation" votes does that make all employees (except 1 corp person voting) of such corp inelligable to vote?
What in the actual shit is this foolery? Corporate interests will never, ever be beneficial for the regular residents; and risks this turning into "company town" logic. One of the most stupid things I've read this month.
I want to see their Long Form Birth Certificates. Along with their voter ID.
Didn't George Lucas make a weird B-movie about this in the late 90s?
That's Trumpmenistan for you: All men are created equally beneath money.
So the CEOs of these businesses get to vote twice.
I want the corporation to walk into the registration and present its birth certificate to demonstrate that it was born in the U.S.
The US has the largest unaware following of the money-cult in the world. Most citizens are not aware they've been brainwashed to believe that the ulta rich aren't ultra greedy, ultra immoral and on corporate welfare at the expense of the working poor and working class.
Fascism 101.
So if people incorporate, do they get 2 votes?
Fucking no. Black people are getting their votes and voices silenced, but corporations can vote? Those corporations are owned by people who already get a vote!!
That’s nuts
Ok. So are we going to put share holders and stock brokers in prison for slavery and/or trafficking? After all only citizens can vote and citizens are people, and owning people is illegal in the US (with exceptions as punishment for a crime) last I checked via 14th amendment.
Taking the legal fiction of corporate personhood way too far … again.
WTAF?
Corporations are not people. Not ever.
It's because of things like this that I say to myself every morning, "Why did I have to wake up?"
I'm surprised it took this long after citizens United. This is very bad.
So progressives can just create a bunch of LLCs for the win?
End-stage capitalism.
Yeah, this is stuff they warned us about in Bladerunner and Cyberpunk… ooff
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That isn't going to end well
Billionaires will try anything to give billionaires a second vote, unless we the people stop them.
WTH? NO!
Every person in Delware better remember this the next time someone tells them to just "vote them out."
Does the corporation have to be of age?
Danger!!
Pretty much inevitable after Citizens United isn't it?
I’m guessing that data centers will get Super Delegate distinction.
We had this in a couple cities in California in the past too. There simply were no residents - just warehouses.
Will they have to show their passport to vote?
Lol. Lmao even. This is some ultra corporate anti utopia literature stuff.
I have said for a long time that the legal decision that "corporations are people" (not an exact quote, but the gist), is among the most wrong-headed in American history. They are entities, not people. They have no rights except what the state gives them. FFS, the plot of Air Bud made more sense!
WTAF?!
My collection of beanie babies wants to vote.
Fking Corporations doesn't make efforts anymore to denying bribe politicians around the world. How they are demanding honesty and ethics from his workers if they are turning in movie villans, what is next opening the Headquarters in a Volcano Pool that full of Sharks whit Freaking head Lasers?