• this@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    4 hours ago

    If companies can vote, they should be subject to the death penalty like everyone else.

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    32
    ·
    12 hours ago

    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?

  • School_Lunch@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    35
    ·
    14 hours ago

    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.

    • Tinks@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      13 hours ago

      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.

    • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      13 hours ago

      No no no, those rules are for people. Silly peasant. Corporate people don’t have to do those silly things

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    13 hours ago

    “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.

  • Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    13 hours ago

    So… if I own a company and spin off… oh, lets say a million shell corporations, have I generated a million voters?

  • hateisreality@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    10 hours ago

    So let me get this straight… Corporations have the right to vote all the while the government is trying to purge registered voters from the polls? How long until the fucking corporations end up with multiple votes due to size?

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    3 hours ago

    And given most C-suite consult LLMs heavily, we’re now on the slope to where robot overlords run the show.

    Would it be best? Debatably not. Would it be better than Trump? Of course.