Secret Santa 2024
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A Corporation is running for Congress.
Well, this one is more directed at people from the US, but anyone is welcome to discuss this.

Recently The United States Supreme Court decided to do away with a very old, yet most would say very wise law that barred corporations from becoming involved in political matters. Basically, the law made it illegal for a corporation to publicly back any candidate, so in a nutshell McDonalds cant run commercials for someone who wants to be the president. This was a very good thing, in my opinion, because basically without this law in place the American Government becomes that much more for sale.

Think about it, here are bitchin pics to help...

O-|-< here we have politician A. He is well liked by his party, and has a decent following among the general population.

O-|-< This is politician B. He is also well liked by his party and as well has a decent following among every day folks.

O-|-< here we have politician C. This guy is the odd man out, comparable to the Green party, his party is tiny, and his following among every day people is very slim. This is the last you will see of polictian C, but I included him to make it more realistic.

(\/)[ This is the logo of a very large, and very wealthy corporation. This corporation is lead by a man who sympathisez strongly with Politician A. So, the corporation than decides that it will use its vast sums of money to create an all out advertising slut fest in support of politician A. Now, once the slut fest has begun, there are commercials, expensive, convincing television adds supporting politician A and bashing Mr. B. The corporation even makes a movie that plays as two hours of "Politician B is a retard" and it is run on ABC prime time all throughout primary's.

Who has the better chance of winning?

Well, as a sort of act of defiance against this possibility, one corporation has decided to run for public office. Playing on the view held by the law that a corporation is "a person"

look.

Tell me what you think.
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Who cares. Let the corporations support politicians. If they want to waste money away on politicians who are we to stop them? If they get some benefits from that investment when the politician becomes President then good on them.

Video is hilarious.

This kind of thing has been going on for ages (Obama for example payed the most on marketing etc and won, Kevin Rudd had Kevin 07 - but honestly I think in the case of Rudd it was more a distaste for some of the choices made by his main opponent).
Originally Posted by Rutten View Post
Who cares. Let the corporations support politicians. If they want to waste money away on politicians who are we to stop them? If they get some benefits from that investment when the politician becomes President then good on them.

You don't care that the people who make decisions about your life are being bought out by cooperations, to screw you over even MORE?
Shit.
the god
No I don't care. Everythings in shitter already. The government should only serve to uphold our individual rights and to run the police. But thats hardly going to happen.
So why not? It would be amusing to see a McDonalds sticker on Obama's suit.

What kind of logic is that?
"Everything sucks, so lets make it suck more! yeah! we can break like a record for most suckage or something!!!"
the god
Originally Posted by m0o View Post
This kind of thing has been going on for ages (Obama for example payed the most on marketing etc and won, Kevin Rudd had Kevin 07 - but honestly I think in the case of Rudd it was more a distaste for some of the choices made by his main opponent).

Yeah, I know. Depending on the situation you could say lobbyists control the country. This is just extra shity because its like the supreme court said "Go ahead, pay the fuckers off." and now I think we will see politics go into even worse place than it has been for the passed however many decades.

Also who the fuck is Kevin Rudd?..I have this feeling that once I find out I will feel retarded for not knowing, but eh, Im too lazy to google atm.
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