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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:34 PM
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A surprising number of people round these here parts are a lot more sympathetic to corporations...
than I would've imagined.
Has anyone else noticed this?
I would've thought that if ANYONE was a mutual enemy to every DU'er, it's the corporate overlords who pull the strings of Bush and Cheney.
Is this not the case?
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:36 PM
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1. WHO are these people, Elrond?
I WILL KICK THEIR ASS
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:39 PM
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4. I'm thinkin people who claim that those who are getting screwed over ARMs...
had it coming, and don't want any blame placed on lenders.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:45 PM
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8. I think the blame can be spread around
but for sure, the greedy corporate industries take the lion's share - absolutely
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:52 PM
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10. i agree that the people who got the ARM's share in the blame
but some of the ways people have talked about them in GD has been disgraceful. 'greedy fucks' was one colorful example.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 10:23 PM
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19. you are correct
I think their actions amount to criminal behavior
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 10:27 PM
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21. we put con men in jail.
shameless and deceptive money lenders, however, get fat stacks of cash. hand over fist.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:37 PM
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2. I don't hate all corporations.
Many of them, yes, but not all.

Corporate personhood is a great stupidity perpetrated on the rest of us.
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:38 PM
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3. Not all of them are evil...
but the megacorporations that own all of the media, the insurance industry, and the defense industry are all pure, greed-driven evil.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:42 PM
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5. no argument from me there.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:42 PM
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6. every family farm however poor is a corporation,it is the way things r done for a variety of reasons
nearly every small business is a corporation, if you aren't you can get sued and lose everything including your home..everything.

incorporation provides personal protection, they are not inherantly evil
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:44 PM
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7. There are plenty of corporate backers and defenders as THEY are part..........
Edited on Tue Dec-04-07 09:45 PM by Double T
of the the corrupt corporate system and have sold their souls to the corporations in exchange for the ALMIGHTY dollar.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:45 PM
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9. corporations don't oppress people, the people that sit on the boards of corporations do...
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:53 PM
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11. corporations are people too, according to the supreme court.
:P
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:55 PM
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12. Not entirely. They enjoy many of our rights, but none of the accountability. -n/t
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 09:58 PM
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13. Bingo!!!
well said.
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 10:00 PM
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14. they are the 'first-class' citizens of our country.
all the rest of us, we're just the schmucks.
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 10:00 PM
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15. and they are physcos allowed out in the public
to roam around killing and maiming

http://www.thecorporation.com/
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 10:06 PM
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18. That movie should be mandatory viewing. -n/t
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 10:03 PM
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17. ha! see post #16...
:thumbsup:
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 10:02 PM
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16. no, corporations, if you have ever studied their structure, are designed like onions...
and the SCOTUS knows that if nothing else so that you peel & peel & peel and there isn't a person in the middle if & when you ever get there smiling a sheepish little smile up at you...there is instead the utter lack of any person that is able to be held accountable; corporate 'person-hood' is therefore every bit as specious as 24HR Matinizing

corporations are, which it seems you are gamely attempting to illustrate, the *absence* of a human person; and many of their ee-veeiil policies bare that out in spades

:P :P
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 10:27 PM
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20. i'm just playing with you.
stop making fun of me.
:cry:
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 11:17 PM
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22. oooh baby, now you're talk'n...
:blush: :pals:
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-04-07 11:22 PM
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23. behave yourself, you're a married woman!
:spank:
and this is GD, we only allow serious political discourse here!
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