☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoJimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”theintercept.comexternal-linkmessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up1275arrow-down113cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.worldbrainworms@lemm.ee
arrow-up1262arrow-down1external-linkJimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”theintercept.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square82fedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.worldbrainworms@lemm.ee
minus-squareSnorf@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up49·1 year agoI don't understand how anyone could've learned about citizens united and thought it wouldn't end this way.
minus-squareBurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down2·1 year ago![astronaut-2](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/44f610bb-f69d-4e6c-aa16-061ba9e17df6.png "emoji astronaut-2") ![astronaut-1](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/4792ee89-4c46-475f-aea3-26320e88b247.png "emoji astronaut-1") it always was like that even before citizen's united. This just made it more convenient
minus-squaremachiabelly [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoI mean obviously it was always happening but this must've made it worse
minus-squareFifteen_Two@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year agoI am from Canada. I still remember my social studies teacher bringing up Citizens United and asking us all what we thought about it. I still think about our naive answers years later lol.
minus-squarejackpot@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agothey knew exactly how it would end, thats why they did it
I don't understand how anyone could've learned about citizens united and thought it wouldn't end this way.
![astronaut-2](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/44f610bb-f69d-4e6c-aa16-061ba9e17df6.png "emoji astronaut-2") ![astronaut-1](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/4792ee89-4c46-475f-aea3-26320e88b247.png "emoji astronaut-1") it always was like that even before citizen's united. This just made it more convenient
I mean obviously it was always happening but this must've made it worse
I am from Canada. I still remember my social studies teacher bringing up Citizens United and asking us all what we thought about it. I still think about our naive answers years later lol.
they knew exactly how it would end, thats why they did it