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Those on the libertarian spectrum have institutionalized bribery, transforming the legislative process into an auction:
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Walmart Inc. has agreed to pay $282 million in penalties and a Brazilian unit admitted to violating a U.S. anti-bribery law, providing a relatively subdued ending to a seven-year investigation that spanned the globe and at one point looked poised to yield record foreign-corruption fines.
In parallel announcements on Thursday, the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission faulted the country’s largest retailer over payments made to fast-track store openings in Mexico, China, Brazil, and India. Walmart will pay about $138 million in criminal penalties and $144 million in disgorgement to resolve the SEC’s allegations.
actually this thread is 100% about corporate propaganda
nobody likes to pay their taxes
it's the hard work that we have to do to maintain a civilized Society
those that want to DEFUND the government and end it's regulatory dominance over them have invested a lot of money in fake news propaganda
that is what I'm trying to expose here
you have drank deeply from the corporate Kool Aid if you consider yourself a victim a slave or ever suggest that the government will react violently if you don't pay your taxes
What you're saying is that libertarians hold their views, based on propaganda by corporates - you need to go beyond just saying things, and show why that is so.
I think taking money off people, for services and a social order not wanted by the person, is a form of slavery, and the State will eventually use force if you don't comply with it's demands -the first statement can't be logically shown to be incorrect, and the second is self evident.
People are not property; people, including their bodies, are not things.
You can repeat that, but you haven't explained why.
Other people can't be your legitimate property, I agree there. The reason I say you own your body is what I said earlier... the purpose of ownership is to establish who has the highest claim to something, and every human being has the highest claim over their own body. No one else has a higher claim over you than you do.
I'm not sure why you disagree with that, other than negative feelings toward the words "thing" or "property" or "ownership". We're all "things" - we're made of matter and exist in the universe - but that doesn't mean we're on the same level as a car, or a refrigerator, or a pencil, or some inanimate object. Those "things" don't have free will or consciousness. We do, which is why no one else has the right to say "I have a higher claim over your body than you do".
Which leads to the point that a ruler/ruling group is someone who claims the right to overrule your claim to your own body and life. We object to that, because no one has that special privilege. We're all equally human.
You can repeat that, but you haven't explained why.
Other people can't be your legitimate property, I agree there. The reason I say you own your body is what I said earlier... the purpose of ownership is to establish who has the highest claim to something, and every human being has the highest claim over their own body. No one else has a higher claim over you than you do.
I'm not sure why you disagree with that, other than negative feelings toward the words "thing" or "property" or "ownership". We're all "things" - we're made of matter and exist in the universe - but that doesn't mean we're on the same level as a car, or a refrigerator, or a pencil, or some inanimate object. Those "things" don't have free will or consciousness. We do, which is why no one else has the right to say "I have a higher claim over your body than you do".
Which leads to the point that a ruler/ruling group is someone who claims the right to overrule your claim to your own body and life. We object to that, because no one has that special privilege. We're all equally human.
The only way a non-living entity can be held accountable for its action, behavior, crimes, etc. is to pay fines. For example, Walmart, as a non-corporeal non-living entity, pays a fine for criminal behavior & continues its business model. As much as the 'market will bear' or 'as long as the benefit to the corporation is more than the fines they have to pay if caught committing'.
actually this thread is 100% about corporate propaganda
nobody likes to pay their taxes
it's the hard work that we have to do to maintain a civilized Society
those that want to DEFUND the government and end it's regulatory dominance over them have invested a lot of money in fake news propaganda
that is what I'm trying to expose here
you have drank deeply from the corporate Kool Aid if you consider yourself a victim a slave or ever suggest that the government will react violently if you don't pay your taxes
You're correct to identify it as corporate propaganda. It mostly started with libertarian ideologue Milton Friedman in the 1940s & continues full force in the present day:
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... According to Congressional hearings on illegal lobbying activities '46 was the year that Milton Friedman and his U Chicago cohort George Stigler arranged an under-the-table deal with a Washington lobbying executive to pump out covert propaganda for the national real estate lobby in exchange for a hefty payout, the terms of which were never meant to be released to the public. ...
When Congress Busted Milton Friedman (and Libertarianism Was Created By Big Business Lobbyists)
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