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It's disingenuous to frame it as being simply about "making videos"

    The ruling barred restrictions on corporations, unions, and nonprofit organizations from independent expenditures, allowing groups to independently support political candidates with financial resources.

    In a dissenting opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens argued that the court's ruling represented "a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self government"
~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC


The people collectively have not submitted a constitutional amendment

and I’m going to be selling ad space to SuperPACs every 2 years until they do. I really thought for sure that one would provoke a tweak to the constitution, but nope!




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