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U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions. We Should All Be Worried (www.vice.com)

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Trader Joe's, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting workers and consumers—the NLRB and FTC—are "unconstitutional."

Trader Joe’s has become the second company in a month to sue the National Labor Relations Board for being “unconstitutional,” following the lead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, as both companies face board charges for firing employees. These two major corporations aren’t alone in attempting to protect their interests by undermining public institutions; Meta is also arguing in an ongoing lawsuit that the Federal Trade Commission is unconstitutional.

A legal expert told Motherboard that these companies are attempting to take advantage of what they believe is a friendly Supreme Court—judges currently lean right by a six-to-three margin—while they can.

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 18 points 5 months ago

bernie was literally the last hope we had to bring change, and guess what;

obama, clinton personally killed that potential progress

if anyone is to blame its fucking Obama and the DNC for demanding conservatism in the face of fascists.

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago

Bill Clinton killed off any rejection of Reagan. The rest is the lack of any political structure beyond the state and corporations.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com -5 points 5 months ago

obama and clinton personallly interfered with, and prevented his being chosen by the DNC at the DNCs request in 2016.

obama the conservative prevented progress by enabling other conservative democrats to endorse the conservative hillary over bernie.

fuck obama

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