More Corp-ass-rape-shun Hysteria: Does Democratic Underground LLC have a right

[Lord Undies]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7537376

jberryhill  (1000+ posts)          Thu Jan-21-10 07:58 PM
Original message
Poll question: Does Democratic Underground LLC have a right to run DU?
   
Edited on Thu Jan-21-10 07:59 PM by jberryhill
This website is owned and operated by Democratic Underground LLC, which pays for its operation.

Should a corporate entity have a right to run a political website advocating the election of Democrats?

Followed by a poll....a "bark in the kennel" type poll.

jberryhill  (1000+ posts)          Thu Jan-21-10 08:07 PM
Response to Reply #2
8. It's just a question
   
I'm trying to wrap my head around business entities whose freedom of speech depends on whether we agree with what the business wants to say.

Me too, jberry.  Me too.

Ken Burch  (1000+ posts)          Thu Jan-21-10 08:09 PM
Response to Original message
9. Your point being.....?
   Let me guess...you're arguing that the fact that DU is incorporation proves that Democrats shouldn't fight AGAINST corporate power?

Tell me that's not really where you're going with this.

Why guess?  Isn't it obvious? 

anonymous171  (1000+ posts)          Thu Jan-21-10 08:10 PM
Response to Original message
10. LLC stands for Limited Liability Company. It is not a corporation. nt

Wrong!!!  Oh so wrong, Little Goon.....but good try!

[Carl]

Good point,the DUmp can have fund raiser after fund raiser to pad Skimmers pocket send money to dem candidates..what are they complaining about?

[thundley4]

I've never understood the hatred of corporations from the DUmp. Corporations are made up of people working to provide jobs, and wealth to their employees and their shareholders, (owners).  They act as if corporations are some vast unknowable evil intelligent inhuman being.

[LadyLiberty]

Is it any coincidence that the poster who authored this thread has a tombstone for their avatar 

[Lord Undies]

I've never understood the hatred of corporations from the DUmp. Corporations are made up of people working to provide jobs, and wealth to their employees and their shareholders, (owners).  They act as if corporations are some vast unknowable evil intelligent inhuman being.

Corporations are made up of like-minded individuals who are bound together by capitalism in the pursuit of self-interests.  Somehow this is seen as EVIL in the minds of Little Goons and their ilk.  Corporations being outside of government (direct control of socialists) is a sin too large to forgive.  

That and they are so damn afraid someone is going to have more than they have.

[LadyLiberty]

Corporations are made up of like-minded individuals who are bound together by capitalism in the pursuit of self-interests.  Somehow this is seen as EVIL in the minds of Little Goons and their ilk.  Corporations being outside of government (direct control of socialists) is a sin too large to forgive.  

That and they are so damn afraid someone is going to have more than they have.

Right, liberals just despise capitalism...especially fruitful capitalism...and Corporate America is full of that.

Corporate America is a BIG threat to socialism/communism, so they must try to convince everyone that it is evil and bad (just like they keep on trying to con us into thinking that our entire health industry is SO bad that it must be thrust into the hands of the government...and just like they tried to convince us that there was such a thing as global warming, which was a manufactured means to punish Corp. America).

[The Village Idiot]

Someone puts in right in front of their faces where they cannot possibly fail to understand the point.

And they don't get it.

How pathetic is that?