A Maine lawsuit has suddenly become the most significant anti-corruption battle inside America’s legal system, offering the first serious chance in decades to challenge the disastrous Citizens United decision.
possibly the worst Supreme Court decision ever handed down - and there are a whole shitload of awful SC decisions - strictly b/c it was immediately apparent to anyone with two brain cells to rub together how it would enable and entrench corruption and influence in American politics
Also, Citizens United was only the latest in a long series of bad decisions that gradually elevated sociopathic artificial entities over natural persons.
decisions that gradually elevated sociopathic artificial entities over natural persons.
Yeesh. Not sure if I’m just naive for not really putting 2+2 together before reading your comment, or overly paranoid about how dystopian scifi the future might get from here?
But I never really thought about the laws that were used to elevate corporations over natural persons possibly foreshadowing a future that’s controlled by something that’s somehow even more ominous and artificial that these corporations are currently racing to create.
I have to say in 2026 I’m leaning more towards me just being naive because corporations are themselves a byproduct of a society obsessed with using technique as a means to achieve the most efficient end.
And at this point, I’m also pretty sure that while most rational humans hear alarm bells and see clear premonitions of dystopia when they hear a question like “What could possibly be more efficient than a world where all human imperfections have ceased to exist?,” the sociopaths running these corporations believe they’re ushering in paradise like priest Crystal.
possibly the worst Supreme Court decision ever handed down - and there are a whole shitload of awful SC decisions - strictly b/c it was immediately apparent to anyone with two brain cells to rub together how it would enable and entrench corruption and influence in American politics
Perhaps, but you’re going up against the classics. Dred Scott. Plessy v. Ferguson. Korematsu.
Also, Citizens United was only the latest in a long series of bad decisions that gradually elevated sociopathic artificial entities over natural persons.
etc.
Yeesh. Not sure if I’m just naive for not really putting 2+2 together before reading your comment, or overly paranoid about how dystopian scifi the future might get from here?
But I never really thought about the laws that were used to elevate corporations over natural persons possibly foreshadowing a future that’s controlled by something that’s somehow even more ominous and artificial that these corporations are currently racing to create.
I have to say in 2026 I’m leaning more towards me just being naive because corporations are themselves a byproduct of a society obsessed with using technique as a means to achieve the most efficient end.
And at this point, I’m also pretty sure that while most rational humans hear alarm bells and see clear premonitions of dystopia when they hear a question like “What could possibly be more efficient than a world where all human imperfections have ceased to exist?,” the sociopaths running these corporations believe they’re ushering in paradise like priest Crystal.