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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:20 PM
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What sex are corporations?
Since the United States Supreme Court has now declared corporations to be individuals, I was just wondering, what sex do they tend to be? How can you tell? What are their mating practices? Social Security numbers? Can an American citizen really be legal without a SSN? If corporations can exist as individuals, why can't dogs and cats have the same rights since they breath and eat? And if breathing and eating isn't a qualifier, why do we lose rights once we die?

I'm so confused.
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Sal Minella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:21 PM
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1. Can I marry a corporation? I choose Hershey's. n/t
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:23 PM
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3. Duers are quick.
There's already a thread on this subject.

Hmmm...I think I want to marry Goldman Sachs without a prenup.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:24 PM
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Or Nestle's. I love chocolate, too. n/t
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Generator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:26 PM
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12. Godiva, even better
Aren't they kinda French? :*
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vincna Donating Member (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:31 PM
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21. Can two corporations of the same sex get married?
Just askin'
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Sal Minella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 12:56 PM
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31. As someone pointed out on another thread,
this depends on what state they "live" in.

If one "lives" in a post office box in the Caymans, and the other "lives" in a post office box in Argentina, and both are gay, and they want to have their wedding and reception at one of our big round stone barns in Iowa (website info provided upon request) . . .

I wonder just what sort of paperwork they have to complete before the ceremony.

The mind boggles.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:22 PM
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2. I was thinking the same thing. Isn't my cat a person?
Isn't my telephone. If AT&T is a person, then my telephone should be one too shouldn't it? It's really very, very odd.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:24 PM
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4. They are asexual, and they do get married and divorced.
They even spawn new corporations.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:25 PM
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7. Is a hostile takeover a legally approved rape?
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:29 PM
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16. Always has been.
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wtbymark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:24 PM
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5. the courts should all be immediately flooded
with challenges exactly like yours. thousands of them in every appeals court.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:25 PM
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Why not.
If you can't beat them...
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dhpgetsit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:24 PM
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6. Right now I'd like to put a corporation in the hospital.
Or even 6 feet under.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:26 PM
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11. That would be one big hole.
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atmame77 Donating Member (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:25 PM
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8. What is a person?
I've thought that same thing too. Dogs ,cats, my mortgage are individuals.
But we all know that this is just to give the rich and powerful more rights and votes than the average real person.

Doug
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:27 PM
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14. It kind of puts to rest that whole thing about robots or cyborgs or
clones. Just incorporate them and they become legal individuals.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:25 PM
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9. I think primarily they're male because by far most CEO's are male.
They actually do have a kin to SS #'s... Fed ID's. Mating practices....anyone or anything that will benefit you. Sprry, dogs & cats can't press that button on the Diebold machine, nor do they usually get the chance to sniff the behinds of the politicians. If they did, the dogs & cats would probably make much better decisions that the humans or the corporations!
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:25 PM
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10. Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad declared them people in the 1800s
Sort of. It was actually a clerk's error in the notes.

What happeed today was that election reforms were overruled. Not unlike the Missouri Compromise in Dred Scott.

I think this is actually a good thing. The SCOTUS determines law based on the Constitution. When they are obviously off the charts (or the case they are hearing shows that the law is not clear), congress can then amend.

Corporate personhood is at the ROOT of all that is wrong with this country. Perhaps it took this move by SCOTUS to make Congress act on it.
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3waygeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:29 PM
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17. Maybe it wasn't an error...
said clerk was a former railroad executive.
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:47 PM
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27. That I did not know.
*sigh*
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:29 PM
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18. I think everybody knows that funny business occurred in the 1800s.
The question was, did this Supreme Court have the intelligence to think through the flaws, and the answer is no. We are in the age of Idiocracy.
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:30 PM
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20. "congress can then amend" -- but they won't since they are the property of these new persons
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:50 PM
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28. ...and it is certainly easier to listen to a bevy of lobbyists than to thousands of We The People
Yanno, the ones they are elected to represent and all.
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:27 PM
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13. transnational
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Craftsman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:28 PM
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15. I do not know which but they will screw you anytime they can.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:30 PM
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19. They must be trans!
And you know what that means -- the right now thinks they're EE-VULLL!!!

:rofl:
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:32 PM
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22. If two corporations are the same gender, can they legally "merge"?
Edited on Thu Jan-21-10 07:32 PM by rucky
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:51 PM
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29. Bonus points!
:D
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Alias Dictus Tyrant Donating Member (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:33 PM
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23. Grape flavor! nt
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marginlized Donating Member (219 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:36 PM
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24. If They're Citizens ...
do they pledge allegiance to their country of origin? Do their citizenship responsibilities include employing other citizens of their country of origin over those offshore? What about hiding wealth in offshore accounts?
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:38 PM
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25. They make lousy patriots, that's for sure.
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:38 PM
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26. Isn't bankruptcy like euthanasia?
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 07:51 PM
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30. Euthanasia Freddie Kruger style.
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