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  • Tourma@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I will say that if the old name was racist, stop fucking using it. The Washington Commanders, Cleveland Guardians, etc.

    Otherwise, fuck 'em.

      • clubb@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Pretty sure the US law doesn’t even understand that. Don’t they have 2nd amendament rights?

        • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          6 months ago

          Citizens united and some other cases mean that:

          • Cooperations have first amendment rights
          • Donating money is a form of speech protected by the first amendment
          • therefore bribery is legal as long as it goes through PACs and is not obviously quid pro quo
          • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            6 months ago

            They don’t have the right to emancipation though. Like they are literally chattel. Weird how that part of personhood was overlooked, almost like the law was made ad-hoc to give their owners as much power as possible and not according to any real set of principles.

            • KombatWombat@lemmy.world
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              6 months ago

              Corporate personhood is mostly for convenience. Otherwise a company would need an individual to buy and sell corporate property, and they would have to rearrange stuff like that whenever that person dies, retires, or does something else that restricts property use. And it means an individual wouldn’t be able to be a tyrant for everyone else working at the company just because everything is in their name.

              Importantly, it makes it much easier for customers to sue, since they only need to show the company wronged them in some way rather than an individual being personally responsible. Usually they would have no way of knowing who makes which decisions and has which responsibilities, and by suing the company as a whole. they don’t have to. The same applies for governments, police departments, school boards, etc.