Comments on: If corporations are people, would you let your sister marry one?

By: rufustfyrfly

rufustfyrfly — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 03:06:00 +0000

This was put together by the OWS puppet guild, the same folks who made that Lady Liberty puppet, and dressed up like “working class superheroes and corporate supervillains” for the Occupy Halloween parade. You can stay up to date with their projects on their twitter feed (at)Power2thePuppet

By: septimar

septimar — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:49:00 +0000

It is non-sequitur, not non-sequitir.

By: bwcbwc

bwcbwc — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:39:00 +0000

True this. The actual reasoning that allows corporate political spending is freedom of the people to peaceably assemble into groups, organizations etc., _combined_ with freedom of speech. In other words, if people assemble into corporations in order to coordinate their political speech, there is nothing that the government can do to regulate the speech, short of the same curbs that are applied to individual speech (incitement to riot, threats against the president, etc.) Otherwise the constituents of the corporation are having their freedom of assembly violated.

By: bwcbwc

bwcbwc — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:38:00 +0000

No, it just means he’s playing with himself.

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:46:00 +0000

If you’re going to take that angle, don’t draw any conclusions at all. Don’t just assume that he couldn’t have meant the most obvious reading of the statement.

By: Finnagain

Finnagain — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:55:00 +0000

There was never any way to tell what rMoney meant by anything he said.

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:03:00 +0000

As far as I can tell, there’s no way Romney meant anything like what you are suggesting. Stories like this are just seeing how far the whole “Republicans are so dumb” idea can go and don’t really have much relevance to the issue.

By: jhertzli

jhertzli — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:39:00 +0000

Corporations are not human beings because they are not beings. They are human, at least on this planet.

By: jhertzli

jhertzli — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:34:00 +0000

”An orchestra is a person” does not make sense. “Orchestras are people” does make sense.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:44:00 +0000

I ignored First Nat’l Bank of Boston v. Bellott? That’s really irresponsible of me. If I’d gone to law school they really should have kicked me out.

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:20:00 +0000

If orchestras are people does it mean a one-man band can be an orchestra?

By: artbyjcm

artbyjcm — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:28:00 +0000

I think we need to do away with the cliche wedding dresses, because these chicks look amazing. lol

By: Jen Onymous

Jen Onymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:38:00 +0000

I LOVE Rev Billy and what he’s done. I remember when he first started; I caught him doing a brief stand-up thing as a “naughty preacher” at Pseudo.com’s loft in the early 90′s. He’s really found his voice and his focus. If you are ever in NYC try to attend one of his “services” or “stop shopping interventions.”

By: Finnagain

Finnagain — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Nice Harry Harrison reference, btw. Chingers, ftw!

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:56:00 +0000

You’re tired of “jokes”?

I’m actually tired of corporations screwing people over. I’ll never get tired of people protesting unethical corporations until they are stopped from doing great harm in this world. Corporate drones might disagree…

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:49:00 +0000

Boundegear likes to ignore that for some reason in these comment threads. Boundegear should really watch this sometime to get a bigger picture of the problem and quit worrying so much about trite, semantic arguments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pin8fbdGV9Y

By: KWillets

KWillets — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:08:00 +0000

If corporations are people, they’re the only ones who aren’t tired of this joke.

By: Bearpaw01

Bearpaw01 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:03:00 +0000

The FBI took them seriously, too.

By: Bearpaw01

Bearpaw01 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:01:00 +0000

You think so? When was the last time you actually read a EULA?

By: kroeghe

kroeghe — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:26:00 +0000

I want to marry you for this comment, but my brother won’t let me.

By: Sam Cohen

Sam Cohen — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:03:00 +0000

actually, corporations are people, per the Supreme Court … “[t]he court found… a corporation’s constitutional right, as a “person” under the Fourteenth Amendment, not to be deprived of property without due process of law.”
First Nat’l Bank of Boston v. Bellotti – 435 U.S. 765, 771 (1978)

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:52:00 +0000

You have a point. Pepper spray ain’t cheap.

By: Charles Lenchner

Charles Lenchner — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:49:00 +0000

In other news, note that the bride’s dress is made of real money. Real STAMPED money that is! Check out the money stamping operation of the StampStampede that is spreading the word that money is NOT free speech and corporations are NOT people. It’s a fun, creative and slightly subversive way to spread the word. http://stampstampede.org

By: Finnagain

Finnagain — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:48:00 +0000

Why would I want my sister to marry a sociopath?

By: Finnagain

Finnagain — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:45:00 +0000

NO LUBE!

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:33:00 +0000

Hmm, yes, by deliberately misinterpreting a statement one can often produce an absurdist non-sequitir. Well done.

Did you do philosophy 101 at Phoenix University by any chance? “An orchestra is a person” doesn’t actually make as much sense as you seem to think it does.

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:30:00 +0000

On the other hand, we do have plenty of evidence that those embedded in the power structure are themselves idiots who have no idea what they’re doing.

They know this too, otherwise they would point out exactly why the activists are wrong. The fact that they prefer snide comments in editorials in the WSJ demonstrates to me that they have no real arguments and that this purely comes down to values: the rentier class wants to feel good about being unproductive and rapacious and look down on all those poor little idiots who actually do useful work for a living.

By: Derek C. F. Pegritz

Derek C. F. Pegritz — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:28:00 +0000

Reverend Billy is The Man. He makes protesting FUN!

By: LinkMan

LinkMan — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:22:00 +0000

The problem isn’t that this won’t change Wall Street’s mind about corporate greed, but that it reinforces the views of many in the power structure that these activists are idiots who have absolutely no idea what they’re protesting.

The Occupy activists I know (including one who I’m pretty sure I spotted in that video) are certainly not stupid people, and I probably agree with them more often than not. But sometimes they get so caught up in their activist rhetoric that they lose sight of the real issues. This goes beyond the cliched “What does Occupy WANT?” criticism of Occupy, and to the question of whether they are actually misinforming their activist audience as to what the real issues are.

By: Jorgen Fleisterman

Jorgen Fleisterman — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:20:00 +0000

Except they’d make you pay for the dinner, the movie, and the lube…