• Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    We have a husk of a shell that we once called the Supreme Court that decided that corporations have a right to free speech.

    Toe that with all the benefits of a corporate entity and we end up where corporation speech is more free than that of a person.

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        The US government literally sent in their military to fight coal miners that were trying to unionize. They backed the coal mining companies. It’s not a new thing.

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        Yes but that was also before propaganda was a class in college. Now they don’t need to set things on fire, just convince a chunk of workers to vote against unions. The cost to suppress unions has never been cheaper.

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      While true, this shit was going on just as much back when they were “legitimate”. Anti-Union mind games are an American tradition.

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        Yes and now we have no tools to fight it. There were rules against anti-union activities; union workers died for those rights.

        That’s all null and void and without a change at the highest levels, it will stay that way.