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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 117 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Weird that these protections exist for corporations that aren't actually people but no protections exist for the person who was fired.

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

And how our legal system is setup to best defend the wealthy.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They are the protagonists of democracy after all.

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

"Are you waiting to receive my limp penis!?"

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't see how pretending that's weird is gonna help anyone.

We all know we don't live in a just world.

We need to try and make it one, instead of pretending we're living in one which happens to have horrid injustice happening all the time.

[–] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm no English major, but I'm pretty sure @SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world calling it weird is a rhetorical device known as sarcasm.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Hmm, I wonder if it is actually. I think it's just a euphemism for it's wrong how" or "it's weird how we as people keep allowing this to happen in a democratic world", but I honestly don't think it's sarcasm.

I get the point and I write that way all the time too, but I thought to see what happens if I just stop participating in the pretense of it being weird.

But yes maybe it is just sarcasm, but like the same sort of rhetoric is often used to talk about problems which are sort of too complex and large to easily assert something which should or even could be done.

But yes. Sarcasm.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

yeah it's pretty crazy. almost like government is for some things and not others, and knows it, like maybe laws were always just an excuse and tool for victim blaming. or something.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The amazing thing is that the government doesn't get nearly as much tax income as you'd expect from these hugs companies. It's almost as if the politicians have some other, secret motivating factor. Oh well, I guess we'll never know.

wait, are you saying that there's this class that are the beneficiaries of governments and laws, and it's the same as the class that doesn't suffer any limitations when they do stuff that the governments and laws don't like?

and that we're in this other class, that the laws and stuff exist to punish, but has to fund them and pay for them, or we get punished for that too?

that's fucking crazy.