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CrispyQ

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4. Granting corporations personhood rights was a mistake, IMO.

Reply to PeaceWave (Original post)

Thu Jul 17, 2025, 04:01 PM

Jul 17

There is some debate whether the Supreme Court actually meant that, but it seems to be law, now.

Slavery is the fiction that people are property;
corporate personhood is the fiction that corporations are people.

~Reclaim Democracy
https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-personhood/

https://reclaimdemocracy.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/personhood_timeline.pdf

I love this site's corporate personhood section. The timeline doc is really interesting.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] PeaceWave Jul 17 OP

I figure AI will be running the entire show quite soon. Irish_Dem Jul 17 #1

AI could hijack a corporation. CrispyQ Jul 17 #2

AI will write the movie for us real soon. Irish_Dem Jul 17 #3

We have created AI in our image: self-absorbed & full of itself. CrispyQ Jul 17 #7

The dark side of human nature captured and replicated by AI. Irish_Dem Jul 17 #8

bidi, bidi, bidi, L'Chaim Ken Dayenu Jul 17 #5

Mazel tov and good luck. We will need it. Irish_Dem Jul 17 #6

Possible, and a very scary thought AZJonnie Jul 18 #9

Bottom line is that humans cannot do anything right. Irish_Dem Jul 18 #10

Granting corporations personhood rights was a mistake, IMO. CrispyQ Jul 17 #4