Corporations Have More Rights Than People - SOME MORE NEWS
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:21 - Companies Are People! (More Than You!)
04:29 - Corporations Get To Make Laws
10:05 - Corporations Can Commit Fraud
16:36 - Corporations Can Vote
21:14 - Corporations Can Steal Your Home
28:18 - Corporations Can Steal Your Water
34:22 - Corporations Can Purposefully Destroy Other Companies
39:55 - Corporations Get Better Financial Aid Than People
45:53 - Corporations Can Kill People
54:18 - Executives Could Be Held Accountable - Комедії
If corporations are people, then corporations should be able to serve prison time.
Companies will go around committing a bunch of crimes constantly and then refuse to hire convicts.
And vote…. Wait, they already can….
Just look at Delaware.
@@zettysmango And be stripped of their right to vote if they commit felonies. Just like people.
It's also illegal to own people. So now corporations are people, does that mean wall street is committing (another) crime?
Multiple life sentences even.
Citizens United is easily one of the worst things to happen to the US
I tried out for (and was accepted to) moot court at my university. The interview topic was "Citizens United: Thoughts?" And yes, I had many. And thus I was inducted or whatever. Then I found out that the topic for that semester was to be "The Commerce Clause" - I had so many ideas that my brain broke before the first meeting. And my moot partner was totally my type. A waste, but better than letting my inner academons run wild, forcing me to spend every waking moment from classrooms in the library; and spending the night huddled under one of the numerous reading desks in the library basement stacks. Can't live out *every* fantasy, though. And so I quit moot before I lost my sanity. Sooo... what was I talking about, again?
Oh yeah:
Note, I said, "university", not "college"; because I'm a snob, and of course the athletics department, fashion school, and nursing program didn't have a moot court, or anything resembling critical thinking under-fire. Kinda wish they did though, since that weird, Matt "Prove me wrong" turd showed up in our punchbowl one day (I recall someone describing a poster on his table that said, "Rape is a myth; prove me wrong"), baited some obvious dummies into arguing with him (I'm sure they were a lot more intelligent than he was tryring to show; but they let their emotions get the better of them in a world where now, that's not considered "OK".
Then he complained about how no one could debate him, and was gone before anyone of philosophical training showed up. Literally two entire colleges of them in the building next adjacent to the admin office that one idiot put his booth in front of, but he pulled it off during class hours, so only people with time on their hands showed up to debate him - and feed his sick little channel. He was in that terrible movie ya'll advertised. 'LazyBalls', I believe.
I also recently saw him in a video where he was trying various breads under different Mexican culinary constructs.
Ford v. Dodge is right up there with it.
I hope that future historians find some of the written records about that court judgement..
So they will be able to draw a straight line from that decision, to the fall of the American Empire..
the jevvS
...white colonialism
"If the penalty for a thing is a fine, that thing is only a crime for the poor" + "Corporations can only be penalized with fines" = "A sufficiently wealthy corporation is above the law"
They probably include fines in their annual budget.
Just the cost of doing business.
Ah, Colorado water law - the state where putting a glass out in a rainstorm and drinking from it is illegal but bottling every drop of the one river to an entire community isn't
I googled that because I thought this has to be a gross exaggeration turns out not really: You are allowed to harvest 110 gallons in rainwater (
@@jens5906 it has to do with downstream water usage. Rainwater keeps the water levels steady. All the water that replenishes the river is from snowpack not rain. If you take too much water the river won't be able to keep a decent water level. Now with climate change and more late season snow it is more important than ever for the west to manage water to the fullest.
Similar law in California. The only rainwater you are allowed to collect in California is that which falls on your house.
@@d_mbpeople be snitching, seriously we have a psychotic amount of busybody HOA types in this state
Wells Fargo tried to steal my moms house. I almost went to jail preventing it, because the bank immediately started making threats and calling the cops whenever i brought my mother to the bank to deal with their obvious fraud. It was a nightmare, but also a success story in retrospect.
but a chilling and traumatizing and demoralizing experience
Jesus Christ. I hope you're doing better now dude
Damn. You're a hero.
10/10 mate, you're a good'en.
Fight the power though, and speak truth to power. Institutions like banks need to be replaced with better institutions like credit unions, community development credit unions, financial co-ops and collective ownership of assets.
Truly a mystery why more young people are cynical about and skeptical of capitalism. Can’t possibly imagine what could be causing this
But but socialism means millions in poverty!! Unlike capitalism which means... checks notes... only 40 million in poverty in the US alone
@@thedude925Well yes. You see socialism means 50% a full 50% of people get a leg up in life, live a better life, and enjoy more while 1% dramaticly lose out of stealing from 99%. And that would be subjectivly, to the 1%'s point of view impoverish them.
And since 1% of 330 million is 3.3 million that means millions will be impoverished into a life of
*checks notes* Having to work while losing nothing.
If you ask a socialist what they don't like about capitalism they'll give you list of specific things they don't like about capitalism.
If you ask a capitalist what they dislike about socialism they'll also give you list of things that happen under capitalism.
@@Vohlfied THIS. The best part is when Fox News whines about "socialism" and shows empty store shelves, the footage is usually from some poor part of the US (ie Detroit or something) and not anywhere near socialism.
It's kinda like we became communists through coercion and rebranding.
Purdue really ruined it for people with Chronic pain conditions. Their negligence and greed caused a lot of good people to no longer be alive. And now those who are in need are looked at like addicts for something a corporation caused.
yup 🙃 i am in so much pain everyday but i have to ration my prescription for only the Bad Days because if i run out too soon they'll automatically think im selling it.......... someone who can barely get out of the house, legally disabled, officially diagnosed............ AND even get my family doctor in trouble. (not talking about asking for a whole extra box or anything. like, if i run out one or two days earlier than i should..... 1 or 2 misplaced pills can get me labeled an addict / potential drug dealer...) its such a mess, i really wish there was an alternative
The government has really called things more difficult for its citizens, and we can't sit back and bear all the consequences of the bad governance. It's obvious we are headed for inflation,it is always the poor who take the hit.
I feel sympathy and empathy for our country, low income earners are suffering to survive, and I appreciate Caroline. You've helped my family with your advice. imagine investing $30,000 and receiving $95,460 after 28 days of trading.
I'm in a similar situation where should I look to increase income? Do you have any advice? What did you do? Thank you
Thanks to Mrs Carolina Maria Bravo
She's a licensed broker here in the states.
Sounds familiar, I have heard her names on several occasions.. And both her success stories on the wall street journey!
Corporations and fetuses are people but children and pregnant women are not.
Make it make sense.
ok its not hard. believe there are natural unchanging hierarchies. Believe rich ( straight, white) men are that way because of those hierarchies, proving your theory true. poor (white) men are below rich men, ( straight, white) Rich Women are thus below (white) men and everyone else is below that in the same order of gender and class. Women of a higher class are roughly equivalent to men of the class below theirs. Women therefor need to be controled, using fetuses as an excuse if needed. Helping children would help poorer people more but especially women which would go against the hierarchy... Therefor... fuck em. Corporations are people because it helps men in power the most. Not helping children means more people growing up to be the underclass that capitalism needs to support itself. It makes a lot of sense when you speak conservative. (which in USA democrats are just LESS conservative, aka not extreme right wing like repubicans, but still right wing... there is no true left in USA.)
Patriarchy and capitalism require it.
It's because of the wet skin act of 1776: the wetter your (white) skin or skin you own, the more rights you have.
correction: frozen embryos are people too
Corruption and a lack of physical consequences.
Corporations are very eager to identify as people when their rights are under attack, but as soon as it comes to putting people in jail, corporations are suddenly legal entities for which no individual person can be held responsible.
In other countries it's considered a 'legal fiction ' that corporations are people and it's generally only so that they can own property and sign contracts - so if the person who signs the contract dies or leaves the company the company is legally required to abide by it.
The rest of it.... nah.
So have them pay in things that belong to the legal entity alone.
Like patents or Stock
Privatize gains but publicize losses.
Lobbying? You mean legalized bribery.
"I'd light a match to see if he flinched" is the most unconventionally threatening line I've heard.
"Laws aren't real, you see. We made them up, like money and Warcraft."
Genuinely such a banger line
"The State calls its own Violence, The Law. But that of the Individual, a Crime." -Max Stirner
I long for the day that democrats retake the Supreme Court and chief KBJ writes an opinion “Citizen’s United was wrongly decided from the start”. Turn Sam Alito’s words on him.
@willygene829 You're stupid. How about abolishing the Supreme Court as a political institution.
@@willygene829you'll be waiting forever. Democrats tend to put awful people on the court.
And inflation.
Life begins at incorporation
Articles of Incorporation deserve all the protections that a fully grown public company have.
Love it!
Take all my (meaningless Internet emoting) for this comment! 👾
We the Corporation of the United States, in order to lobby for a more perfect Capitalistic Society…
Isn't that the name of a political cartoon and commentary collection?
A corporation could buy your home that your rent from, void your lease, and kick you out with as little as a 24 hour notice posted on your front door. I had this happen to me personally and was literally left homeless with no clue where I could even go. I lost most of my belongings because I simply had no where to put stuff and no plan of what I was to do...all of this as explained by several lawyers was completely legal and the company didn't violate any laws, which is quite messed up if you ask me...
Rental price for a single bedroom on my street went from 1100 just a couple years ago to 2500+ today. It's fucking madness. These aren't even markets anymore, they are fiefs.
The downfall of modern civilization started with the phrase, "Fiduciary duty to shareholders".
Precisely. It's the official, legal, get-out-of-jail-free card for corporate shadiness.
Amazing that that is the one law in this country that’s apparently descended from god himself and permanently set in stone never to be changed, altered, or disregarded.
@@ericcarabetta1161to change it, you might literally have to institute a form of socialism
@@coderamen666 either that or the Purge....and I think I know which one would start solving things quicker!
@@MerabuHalcyon It worked for Republicans, we got the Reagan through Trump arc because they started their own purge and we let it happen. "Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did" ~ Advisor for domestic policy to Nixon
“No matter how much corporations break the law, they never lose their right to lobby.”
That, right there. That seems like a perfectly reasonably place to start looking into this.
Also spot-on how lobbying is more effective than voting.
You know who else doesn't lose the right to petition govt (i.e. lobbying) even when convicted of crimes? The People. The right to petition govt is fundamental right under the 1st Amendment, just like free speech, free assembly, freedom of the press, etc.
@@SamTheWurzelbacherThe fundamental problem with that is that activism is not free, it requires either time(which most people dont have due to the fact they have to work multiple jobs to survive) money(see before) or networking(which corporations have loads of because they have more time and money than you)
they fundamentally have more power by default simply because they have more money,both lobbying and advertizement are the quickest way to gain votes without voting. If a corporation is shown to be absurdly unreliable and can break multiple laws that were there because it was written in blood(regulatory requirements, peoples basic need to survive, preventing someone from being a straight up asshole) then a company(at least, above a certain tax bracket, strange how that kind of rule seems to be reviled for some reason even when its nigh impossible to actually reach without already being set for life) should require an investigation or at the very least some friction before literally bribing politicians to ensure there isnt a conflict of interest.
@SamTheWurzelbacher Petitioning the government and lobbying are not nearly the same thing. Do you think that politicians are more likely to listen to the pac paying them millions of dollars or a group of much less powerful people going "hey please stop taking millions of dollars from groups that seek to benefit from our harm"
@@SamTheWurzelbacherWhat does that have to do with corporations having such privilege? Corporations aren't people and shouldn't be treated as such.
“If corporations are people they should be able to get the death penalty”-Spongbob SquarePants caught on rant after his drug trafficking operation was busted by the feds.
Cody, you forgot to mention that after PG&E’s oopsie-murder they did nothing to fix the problem that caused it and raised rates on customers to cover the expense!
They also ran a shit-ton of ads, touting how much they "care" about their "communities" and such, but every time one of them ended, my family would MST3K that with an important addendum: "PLEASE DON'T SUE US."
I can legitimately not comprehend.. How a living breathing human.. Can physically say.. "Corporations are people too.."
This shit needs to be psycologically studied..
"Hmmmmm ah yes according to these tests youve tested positive for lobbying you little greedy piggy"
well thats what capitalism does to the human mind
No, mitt Romney said it
I remember a training module I wound up on back when I was on a charity board of directors (an entirely voluntary position, zero pay involved) where we the person giving the training was emphasizing the legal fiction of corporate personhood, both that it was a legal fiction but also what that actually meant for us.
@@mauirandall8176 Good point, he's far from human.
What pisses me off is that the media kept blaming Toy R Us' downfall on millennials.🙄
Us Millennials are quite a popular target, though it's been shifting to Gen-z over the last few years. Those darn youths, get off my lawn!
"The media" is just a mouth-piece for the rich. "The media" exists to white-wash their overlord's misdeeds/fraud/corruption/crimes/inhumanity/immorality/villainy/etc. and to promote their interests.
Elder millennial here - I think I was only old enough once to drive myself to toys r us, never mind being employed and able to buy anything, and I think they were already on the way out by then.
Certainly wasn't us who slowed/stopped spending 🤦
Yes. the filthy rich man only wanted more money, let's let him off the hook for having a drug cartel.
that street dealer though, who is motivated only with wanting some money to feed his family, he should go to prison for life...
"Laws aren't real, you see. We made them up, like money and Warcraft."
New legal defense unlocked lol
I've had my new landlords try to walk in my apartment while I'm home, without knocking, or texting, twice. I have a door brace under the knob. Also they upped my rent by $300. It's fun when my paranoia is actually right.
Check local laws. Mine has privacy laws they must abide by where only in emergencies they can enter without notice. Otherwise they must give adequate notice
Some name hand a song called "unalive" your Landlord
@@Umbrage0 Dead Kennedy's had a song called Let's Lynch the Landlord, is that the one your thinking of?
"Ah, this strange new definition of fun I wasn't previously aware of."
-Douglas Adams.
"No, that's general paranoia. Everybody's got that."
Also - Douglas Adams.
My running joke is "If corporations are people then CEOs aren't. They are a piece of the 'people' and therefore do not count as a person."
The appendix, useless until they need to be removed for being toxic
@@thedude925 Technically, the appendix isn't medically useless (it has immune and microbiome functions). I'd rather have my appendix than a CEO . . .
@@jospinner1183 I miss my appendix, but that fucker did try to kill me so it's a mixed bag
@@thedude925 Obviously CEOs are cancer cells
wow so funny
Deferred prosecution is basically restorative justice. It's basically the norm for big businesses and corporations, but very controversial for everyday normal people. Steal some car parts from Walmart so you keep your car working and get to work, go straight to jail. Steal from your employees so you can increase your Q3 earning by 2%. Pay a fine and change your head of HR and it's fine so long as it doesn't happen again.
I'm consistently flabbergasted that corporate crimes don't fall under RICO
I'm pretty sure that was the original intention of RICO - making it easier to go after corporate crime & tax evasion
They likely do, but are not enforced due to corruption and graft and phone calls from CEOs
I have guinea pigs called Ham Solo, Darth Hayder and Luke Swinewalker so I'm down for pigs in space.
But who will be playing First Mate Piggy?
We definitely need Star Boars
@@unduloidno clue, but Link Hogthrob can be played by Hasselhoff.
@@unduloid miss piggy, of course ua-cam.com/video/YU0rj6drXdI/v-deo.html don't they teach you kids nothin' in skool?
Mmm, gamma fried space bacon....
Ah, I remember being a teenager and stealing like a hundred Romney yard signs before that became a felony.
STOP OPENLY SNITCHING ON YOURSELF
@@SumeriyaYaxlakaYou can't make something illegal and then retroactively charge someone with that crime.*
@@RHCole Wanna bet?
@@RHColeKEEP SNISHIN
@@HandsFreeProductions*at the time of this writing
On the bright side, once your landlord owns your water you won't have to deal with two corporations trying to screw you over; it'll be one corporation that's already screwed you over.
The CEO of Countrywide home loans did end up going to prison after the 2008 crash. Countrywide was one of the biggest offenders in terms of dishing out sub-prime mortgages like depressing slices of deep dish pizza. The CEO didn't go to prison for that though. He went to prison for LYING TO SHAREHOLDERS about whether or not they were signing people up for sub-prime loans......
Next it will be illegal everywhere to capture rain water because some corporation thinks it bought it.
In some states it is illegal because the states already own the water falling into the watershed of the nearby river.
Allow me to introduce you to the state of Maryland
@@goldentreefrog18 It's not illegal to collect rainwater for personal use in the US, though a handful of states have restrictions on the amount. Colorado has some of the strictest laws and you're only allowed 2 rain-barrels with a combined capacity of 110 gallons, and it has to be used on-site. The reality is that it would take a truly insane setup to collect enough water to disrupt the local hydrologic cycle as an individual capturing rain water.
They're burning microplastics into the air to make sure that rainwater is tainted anyway...
It happened in South America and sparked an uprising.
Hording extreme amounts of money and resources should be a crime punishable by jail time.
Not jail time, we should seize all unnecessary attributes and get these people help.
@@markd.9042 perhaps in a "re-education" "camp" where they can be "re-educated" perhaps in snowy Montana! 😊
@@PaulRudd1941 That's horrible though. I'm a prison abolitionist so I believe that proportionate probation, access to counseling and other services, and like 45-55 hours of community service is enough.
Cannibalism it is, then.
I personally believe that hoarding resources isn't as bad as using these hoards of resources to hire wage-slaves in order to exploit them while destroying everything - the environment, the economy, the people - starting wars, and all in all causing a huge amount of suffering. All of which is kinda compulsory under capitalism.
San Diegan here:
I lived in a shitty apartment in a nice area, so we put up with it to be near the various nice neighborhoods and gayborhoods. Idk if we were bought by Blackstone, all I know is our personal building g manager changed so many times we never actually developed a relationship with any of them, but we were run by CalProp management. And in the 6 years I lived there, our apartment was never fixed unless something became a catastrophic issue, they never assigned us a spot, and they raised our rent every 6 months. They weren't legally allowed to raise it above a certain percentage because of renter protection laws but they did it half the amount they were allowed every 6 months to keep us constantly stressed cause they KNEW it was an apartment in a good area and wanted more for it.
Rent when we moved in, in late 2016: $1650 for a 750sqft 2 bed.
Rent when we quit and left in August 2023: $2300
I reported my old boss for stealing PPP money from us. Small company too in St. Louis. Guy told us that he would give us our first pay check but in order to get our second we would need to give back 25% of our first to him so that he could pay back the load he didn't actually have to pay back. He thought we were all stupid. Some people actually did it and still work there. I think because they were despite and just want to survive. A few of us never went back. They're still there being a shit company to work for or even visit as a customer.
Cody, please don’t get killed by Boeing.
cody's a big boy. he can do what he wants.
That's the most infuriating thing about all these corporations despite all the damage they've done, not a single one of these Corporate ghouls have gone to Prison.
the CEO of Enron did go to prison for 12 years (of his 24 year sentence)
but i hear what youre saying
That's the difference between blue collar crimes and white collar crimes; blue collar crimes represent a small fraction of crimes that affect us financially but disproportionately fill the punitive system. I'm not saying blue collar criminals shouldn't be punished justly, but it is hilarious how you can easily buy your way to freedom if you got the dosh.
@@ianh1504 The Enron prosecutions were magical, and likely never to be repeated for another corporate clusterfuck again.
@@jospinner1183 im sure they teach it in corporate ghoul college, not to not do it but how to avoid prosecution after
Not pound in the ass prison tho... I'm sure he still got to play tennis and have all the visitation he wanted@@ianh1504
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
- Upton Sinclair (author of "The Jungle", which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry)
Since corporations are people, whenever a corporate merger gets blocked... why don't they just get married instead? If a corporation married a human person, would it gain citizenship and be allowed to vote?
These are the questions that my Futurama spec script demands answers to.
Hmm,wouldmake a good futuramap
Plot
"corporations are people my friend" my response: "corporations are tools that are used by people, would you give your hammer a vote?"
Please don't give them ideas...
You think Romney has a hammer?
You sure told them
I believe there may be precedent. A large, grass-roots-oriented astroturfing community has lobbied on behalf of their spiritual beliefs, which grants sentience to several tools and algorithms currently controlling the weather and makin people sin like demons in general.
I would like to vote WITH my hammer though.
For legal reasons, that's a joke.
my radicalizing moment was when eric holder said HSBC (not even an american bank) was too integral to the US economy for any executive to face criminal charges for knowingly laundering money for drug cartels, al qaeda, iran, and north korea. like the loss of these executives would apparently somehow cause so much turmoil at the bank that it would in turn lead to turmoil in the wider economy, so none of them could be touched.
Weren't they a CIA cutout? It would make more sense to hide it under the infinite blanket of "national security"
He never said that.
@@SamTheWurzelbacher He did. From this report by House Financial Services Committee:
financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/07072016_oi_tbtj_sr.pdf
" Shortly after the HSBC settlement, Attorney General Holder testified at a March 6, 2013, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that the size of certain financial institutions made them difficult to prosecute because such prosecutions could have a “negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy”:
"I am concerned that the size of some of these [financial] institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy. And I think that is a function of the fact that some of these institutions have become too large . . . I think it has an inhibiting influence-[an] impact on our ability to bring resolutions that I think would be more appropriate." "
Edit: line-breaks
@@SamTheWurzelbacherExcept he did.
Lol Wurzelbacher in the comments of comments defending Eric Holder and Citizens United. Also for extra (sadness) context: that acct name is a reference to joe the plumber so you know theyve been a dog-brained fan of bad politics for like, decades now.
It's a similar story to what is happening in the UK:
Fred Goodwin who nearly bankrupted britain during the great recession got millions in payouts along with other bankers. He resigned but managed to keep his enormous pension.
Currently, Paula Vennells covered up a story about shortages in cash and blamed postmasters for stealing money and prosecuting them falsely, when it was a computer error she knew about.
These fuds are bound to face no jail time, which is sickening.
If corporations are people, they should follow the same tax laws as people. People get taxed on income, not profits. And people get taxed on all the money they spend that isn't on food or taxes. And people get taxed on all owned assets.
Me: I need to stop doom-scrolling, it's really not good for my mental health.
Some More News: (posts video)
Me: HURT ME AGAIN NEWS DADDY
And News Mommy!
I took so much psychic damage watching this. 10/10 would do it again.
Legit triggered my PTSD from when I learned all this a decade ago in my White Collar Crime course in college... or maybe it's just rage. Yea definitely pure unadulterated rage...
I see the puppet, I click like. That's the deal. Oh and it's nice to see Warmbo, too.
+++
"Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."-
Ambrose Bierce
Food, Water, Housing, Utilities, Medical Care, Emergency Services and probably more. We have the ability to provide but don't have a structure to facilitate the needs of people (not Companies).
My husband’s work received a PPP loan, he kept working, and only received his paycheck from his commission, not one penny from the PPP loan was given to him. The owner made so much money!!
Oh boy, News Daddy, this one is gonna be INFURIATING!
News daddy 🤤
I had to watch it in 2 segments because it was making me so upset
Corporations should not be allowed to buy or own residential homes
I was born in 1991, and I absolutely hate how much of this happened after I was 10 years old.
49:05 This should prove to literally anyone.. That the US legal system isnt made to prosecute criminals.. but to protect the rich from getting prosecuted..
i love it when the news literally looks like it's from an on-the-nose opening shot of a cyberpunk flick
All the corpo overlords, none of the cool gorilla arms and talking guns. Well...at the rate we're going we 'might' get talking sentient guns.
Part of the reason corporations exist is to limit liability. But that definitely should not include willfully illegal and harmful acts and behaviors.
But it does and they do.
@@njosborne6152 unfortunately. Clearly the laws need to change. We need to restructure laws to respect people over profits and people over property.
If they're people, they should be held accountable for once.
Tax breaks will teach them to behave.
Katy's back on her evil corporate overlord arc
#GirlBoss
Did she ever get off that?
@@daelnelbelno, but she’s been on it offscreen
When did she stop?
Warmbo will change her company to some more nudes.
I watch this show and every time I come away with one burning question; How does the US even function as a nation?
The best part about the Homelander reference is that there are people who, well into season 2 and beyond, thought he was legit the good guy.
On lunch/piss in bottle break for a giant corporation that pays me poverty wages. Watching this isnt helping my motivation to finish this day as fast as they expect me to.
Literally the biggest problem not just in America but by extension the world.
This is an important episode that I must, to protect my blood pressure and mental stability, consume in several small bites. Please keep doing what you’re doing, Cody’s showdy. I’ll make do somehow.
Yeah I didn't start making 24% more money between 2020 and 2023, how come landlords can raise rents this much?
I have done sketchy shit in my life.
Stuff I'm not proud of.
But like. The shit I lose sleep over while these aholes run around.
Man. Wow.
I went for a high five while my ap gov teacher went for a fist bump at my graduation and I still lose sleep. Nestle on the other hand 🥴
they also control every major corporation and most of the money supply
Ah, yes, morals. The thing preventing you from ever being a CEO.
me rn losing sleep over dropping my mask with a new person 😮💨
In Kansas City, in both sides which means KCK, KCMO and what's known as the KC Metro area. The rent rate increase for rental properties went up by 46%. It's crazy to know nation wide it was only 25% and that's too much. Just try to imagine 46% increase. That's almost doubled, that happened in one month; it was brutal and still is actually.
As a chronic pain patient it's really hard for me to hear stories about Perdue. I get why people are mad at the company, I get the lawsuits. I don't believe that the majority of the population was so stupid as not to know an opioid medication is going to be addictive. That's a bit hard to believe.
The thing that's just really hard about it as a chronic pain patient. Was the governments reaction to it. This has left tons of people who are disabled by various chronic pain conditions, as well as any other underlying health condition they may have, medically abandoned. Each state kind of deals with things differently or would seem. I personally am entirely medically abandoned over this opiate epidemic. Not only can I not get my pain treated anymore, last time I went in for a physical they wouldn't even do that. I don't have a doctor anymore, and I can't find one either. The last time I spoke with a doctor of any kind, they said all they could do was write their medical report to help my case in getting disability; which I've been fighting to get for 3 years now. The only reason I'm not homeless is due to my husband and yet we've still come really close to losing everything.
Hearing about how evil people think the opioid pharmaceutical companies are. Makes me wonder if they what taking them away entirely, even when someone needs them for a very real medical problem, does to them. Just today I had a flare up, and these flare ups are becoming more intense and more frequent. I lose my ability to understand my surroundings. I don't understand the things people say to me. Eventually I end up passing out, losing consciousness, from too much pain.
I broke down in tears because it's been so long since I've been able to tolerate going out and seeing friends and family. It's been so long since I've been able to paint, draw, play music, write poetry. Most of my days are spent struggling to make coffee, brush my teeth, take a shower and put my clothes back on before 7pm. I feel like I'm in a constant state of getting ready. Society does not slow down and accommodate you either. Quite often my best is almost never good enough, but I'm giving all I've got. I get tired and exhausted so easily on top of things I just can't do anymore.
Back when I had pain medication, which wasn't acting crazy. It was just Tramadol or 5mg Hydrocodone. I was able to go for walks every now and then...😢 I haven't been able to do that in years. I never abused my meds, I only took them as prescribed. I feel like I'm being punished for something I didn't even do. This isn't fuck'n fair, it feels like being tortured. Being made to endure pain levels that cause loss of consciousness. They can't cure it, but they won't treat the symptoms and I'm just made to suffer. Why? I didn't ask for this nor do I want it.
I broke down in tears today after my flare up. Realizing that it's been so long since I've actually been able to go out and interact with other people aside my husband. While my husband's at work, and my world, my social life, friends and family interactions has gotten so small. I have spent so much time in the apartment. I sit on the couch and pretend there's five people in front of me and I have a conversation with them. I know they're not there, that I'm just using my imagination. It's so hard to go out as it's so easy to get exhausted, tired, pain levels that increase and it doesn't take much to cause that. The pain levels can get so bad that nothing makes sense. You smile and hide that anything wrong as you learn quickly people will ignore you if you tell them stuff like what I'm saying here. So, you're smiling and it's not that you aren't actually enjoying your time or their company. It's just that you're so uncomfortable and in so much pain you can really only handle so much; most people just don't and are not going to understand.
I wish Perdue never existed. I don't and have never had respect for companies. The reality though is that the only way I can pain relief is to go to the street. Where you have no idea what milligram you're taking. You don't know what's in it at all. You don't know how strong it is or anything. There's no regulations or controls over a street market. That's one of the things that makes going to the street more dangerous. I won't lie, I've gone that route a few times, try to get things done. My grandfather is having his 96th birthday soon and he may not be around much longer. I'm thinking of getting something to make sure I can be there.
If anyone's made it this far, I'm venting my vex and sorrow, I'm not looking for pity. Although it would be nice, i won't lie. A lot of people think they have some wonderful pain reduction solution. I've tried a lot of things for pain. Chances are if you mention it I've probably tried it. Including yoga, acupuncture, and meditation. I've tried Kratom, I'm allergic to it, and yes I know about wild lettuce too. My condition is rare, complicated and not just muscle, or bone, or nerve oriented it's all of those things in one package. So, yes my condition is something that can actually be seen. It's not something that produces pain, but we can't figure out why.
I just had to vent, yes opioids can be dangerous and you shouldn't take them unless you really need to and don't really have any other choice. They're very addictive, or can be I should say. I just don't like how this Perdue pharma and opiate epidemic thing has led to people who should have access to opioids. Not only to lose access to their opioids, but also lose access to any medical care at all just for being a disabled chronic pain patient. That's a feeling of hopelessness.
Have we considered having Katie voice warmbo? When she said "this is not a pyramid scheme" she had that insane warmbo vibe
I was really impressed with it!
Pordan J Beterson enters the chat:
"Corporations are the manifestation of the deep architypes of humanity and fight against the chaos dragon of femininity..."
But i am team choasdragon
It's me, I'm the chaos dragon of femininity [hits you with my estrogen breath attack]
"NOOOOOOOOO!" Pordan J Beterson screams. "Not the estrogen!"
If it was me I would bask in the easy access estrogen.
@@Hakaimono He is disintegrated immediately by the estrogen, obliterated by the sheer gender of it all.
The transfems sit back on the free lounge chairs and bask in the estrogen rain.
If you want your reason to have it out for Sugar Ray, a teenager once called him Sugar Gay and he absolutely lost his mind in response.
He even farted in his general direction! The man's an absolute menace! I'm hysterical!
@@crypticscrutiny1153 more like Sugar Spray
Sugar HEY! You can't Sugar Say Sugar Spray when discussing Sugar Ray! Sugar Okay? Sugar Anyway...
Sugar okay ig
Man, sugar spice has very shallow skin, he sugar may need to toughen up if a teenager can make him sugar cray(cray) he should sugar stay away from the public if he can't sugar play without getting upset
This is disgusting! Great topic!! Pieces of paper shouldn't own housing or businesses to compete with real people.
“Corporations aren’t Shai Hulud, they’re Immortan Joe” Truer words have never been spoken
Do not become addicted to water. Or food. Or medicine. Or affordable housing. Those are totally luxury goods, you don't actually need them!
Citizens United is great, nothing bad ever came of it!!!
*blinks in help*
Corporations are quantum people confirmed.
How else can a person exist in multiple states at the same time?
So, there's this serial fantasy fiction author, Garth Nix. He writes for teen to young adult audience, and has several completed book series to his name all set in different universes.
One of those series is Keys To The Kingdom. The Architect made the universe, went MIA but left The Will to pick a successor to all that she made. The Will is a document, but also a being... and its easily the biggest pain in the ass in every book because its CONSTANTLY making demands, and near the end of the series is actively lying to the protagonist to get its own way.
I read the series when I was 12 and since then I've treated every Business and Contact and Legal Agreement as a threat that must be carefully managed, and its served me more oft than not.
This series is apparently unbelievably based
I remember reading Mister Monday, but I never finished the rest of the series, but I read all of his Old Kingdom Series. I really need to buy them so I can finish the Keys to the Kingdom series
Garth Nix is one of my favourite authors. I didn’t know he was well known outside Australia, but I have been reading his work since I was a kid. I love his Old Kingdom trilogy, but honestly all his stuff is great. Keys to the Kingdom is a great series.
@@--enyo-- I actually read the Old Kingdom series when I was 14. My username ever since has been Lirael_Marie. Before I knew I couldn't have kids, I wanted to name my child Lirael. I love those books so much! There was even one point in time I looked up a DnD build for playing an Abhorsen.
@@--enyo--Oh and for context, I grew up in rural America. I am so happy his books made it to our small library.
I remember learning about something in elementary school, about the medieval times, or whatever that time was right before we started killing rich people that ruin the lives of everyone everywhere....there was a group of folk called 'absentee landowners.' And then that part where the common folk started beheading all the rich people ruining their lives. I reckon there are no parallels between those times when rich folk were being killed en masse (oops, accidentally went french for some reason there) and our common times.
First thing that came to mind was one of the reason the TTIP agreement must never be allowed to become active.
Corporations would get to sue governments for damages if a law prevents a business venture they were planning. Considering how much shit US corporations do is illegal in the EU, that would've been like handing them a loaded gun and then turning your back.
I’m never gonna get over the fact that the Koch brothers blew up two teenagers by turning on a gas line they knew was unsafe to make a few thousand more dollars a year, and then got away with just having to pay fines which they never actually paid.
25% rent in 3 years is unresasonable? THEY RAISED MINE BY 40% IN BETWEEN LEASES ONE YEAR. From 595 to 833. It was a one bedroom in the middle of nowhere.
Mine went up 10% last September. My apartment didn't get bigger nor did my wages increase.
Makes me glad that I have a private landlord who apologised for having to increase the rent by 15% over 8 years to cover inflation.
Mine went from $1200 to $1500, so a 25% increase, across one year. They tried to make it $1600 but I blatantly refused a 33% increase. I was willing to move over that. "To keep in line with average market price" they said. Fuck Texas. Hate it here.
@@lukahcasshe6197yeah Texas is getting so fucking bad dude. You can own a house unless you want to live in the middle of bum fuck nowhere
Very important watch on the day the corporation that scooped up Deadspin and killed it announced they were going to sell off The Onion.
it still absolutely baffles my mind that members of congress can just openly trade stocks...
over half of last years political climate in Norway was multiple members of parliament might have accidentally informed their spouses about potential lawchanges that could impact stock prices. and that was a large enough conflict of interest that they had to leave...
I hate this place.
I used to believe that if humanty ever entered a "Star Trek" galaxy we would be the Kingons... but no... We're the Ferengi.
Even the Ferengi realized that it's a bad idea to destroy your own planet for short-term wealth. Leaving people utterly destitute means you can't profit from them later.
I'd go with the Orion Syndicate: piratical rent-seekers
No, the Ferengi value long-term benefit. We're closer to Romulans. Power above all else.
When I was a kid I would look at things like the Jetsons and Star Trek and think, the future is gonna look awesome. Nowadays I think of the iconic line at the end of the classic Planet of the Apes...
Ugh I remember the moment I realized we were the Ferenghi 😭. I think it was DS9.
Corporations are people but with no soul to save nor body to imprison
My wife heard the begining of this as I was in the shower. I tried to explain what some more news was...
The best I could come up with is, it's John Oliver like, but with multiple neurological and personality disorders.
Hi from the UK . We sold off the water boad ,( unfortunate name looking back ) in the 1980s . We now have beaches unsafe to swim in . Rivers with sanitary towels instead of fish , and zero investment in infrastructure. Oh and flooding . People get sick if they swim in our rivers . The French call us a turd world nation . Yet inspite of government subsidies, no tax was paid last year because they say they are 66millon in debt ...but somehow payed in share dividends 1.2 billion .
Citizens united must go
Don't you love the knock on effects of the republican bid to allow corporate donation? Free speeeeeech!!!! I know i do, it certainly emboldened the Canadian conservatoves to do the same.
Yeah, I feel really bad that every time American conservatives come up with some new and exotic type of ghoulery, the Canadian conservatives catch wind of it and implement it up north. Sorry about that.
Yup. I see so much dark money ad propaganda connected to my province's conservative shitclowns.
if corporations have human rights, then can we be against the slavery of these corporations and disallow people from owning them? let them be free!
Citizens United should have never been ruled the way it went. But since Corporations are people, they should have to pay taxes like people.
OMG this is so accurate it hurts.
It is time for the truth. The ugly truth. The truth that makes you angry.
@@gabrielmaroto18 lol I read that "The truth that makes you ugly" at first.
Welcome to SMN.
You know what? when I’m angry I’m not cute it works.
idk if this is in the video but i remember having my eyes opened on the issue when the power company chevron straight up just placed a lawyer under house arrest unlawfully because he successfully sued them for (some of) their massive enviromental crimes in ecuador. so they had him placed under house arrest as revenge or something. the judge they used to do it held investments in chevron.
April fools comming up we better see that star boars episode
I legitimately hate corporate America
Why do you think you are seeing a bunch of stories of Squatters rights and how they should not exist. They want you to vote against your own interests.
NEWS! SOME MORE OF IT!
I don't know that I've ever gotten his bizzarro style humor. But he speaks on matters and educates better than most.
Could a group of anarchist revolutionaries perhaps establish themselves as a corporation and then not face punishment when they blow up the other corporations due to simply acting in the pursuit of profit? Asking for a friend
As much as this would be fun to ponder, let's not pretend they wouldn't bend their own rules to maintain their hierarchies.
@@umbralupus6488 of course. It's just nice to imagine villains being undone by the rules they set for the game, but these villains are children, changing the rules and flipping the board whenever they get close to losing...
“Babe, wake up, new dystopia lore just dropped.”
"Puppets should legally by allowed to have humans rights and vote! Will someone please think of the puppets!"
_Puppet does a crime_
"Okay, but we must recognize that a puppet is not a real entity- in the sense that it has its' own thoughts and feelings. Therefore, there is no legal liability for the puppet- let alone the puppeteer."
Just bought a car at Carmax in Lancaster Pennsylvania. Found out four days later that it was a recall that had problems with power steering and had to go and be fixed four days after I bought it.
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