U a dunce

Dumpster felt puppet boi

WOW

FUKIN HURTFUL

im gonna go cry now

Hope ur happy

Consumerism is the result of corporate oligarchy

Corporations have far, far, far more power than they should have

They can effectively circumvent democracy

They're effectively immune to the law

If a corporation does something illegal, they get fined a trivial sum and use PR and the media to do damage control. Within a month you'll forget.

Maybe even shuffle board members around, but nothing really happens

For starters, ban all lobbying

Ban "donations". It's obvious corruption and everyone knows it, but everyone with enough power to change it is already corrupt. Politicians shouldn't be allowed to accept money from anybody for any reason.

Politicians shouldn't be allowed to vote on issues where there's a conflict of interest just like a jury

Lol they are elected to vote on things

Thats literally how the system works

He lives in this planet. Conflict of interest

Politicians are elected *because* of their interests

If he had no side in the topic at hand, why would people elect him in the first place?

Nah, small-ish donations from individuals are OK. Anything other than that should be banned.

I can get behind that

Though I think the US is particularly bad in this regard.

Regardless of what you think about Clinton, she was obviously still a part of her foundation and probably used it's expense account for personal reasons. I don't see how that's not illegal

Individuals rarely are the ones donating it is almost exclusively corporations and foreign states

@Fitzydog because its a charity which is given a high degree of privacy, making it easier to funnel money into re-election campaigns.

@radeon I know how, I'm just asking why was she allowed to still be on their board/payroll. Trump can't do HIS business while in office, why was she?

Because it's "non profit"?

If you check the Wikipedia page on Wages in Europe Turkey has almost reached Moldovan wages...

I would understand that reference if I could point out Moldova on a map...

Lol this was decided by the supream court a long time ago

Donations are free speech

Even by corperations

Which is bullshit

How

Ahh, but what wasn't decided was whether politicians can be limited in what they can *accept*

Capital doesn't have voting rights, people do.

What do you think is worth more?

The time spent of the media talking about you?

Or hard cash?

Time spent