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Nope, the worst thing a corporation can do is try to sell me something I don’t want. The worst the federal govt can do to me is imprison me, or worse, kill me. It’s time we hold these fascists accountable.



>Nope, the worst thing a corporation can do is try to sell me something I don’t want.

How quickly we forget.

https://www.marketplace.org/2019/10/16/the-20-year-legal-bat...

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/radium-girls-radioacti...

There's more. A lot, lot more.


The Battle of Blair Mountain. Shirtwaist Fire. Company towns. Sharecropping. Child Labor. Indentured servitude.

Authoritarianism is the same whether it's public or private. It's about power and leverage.


> Nope, the worst thing a corporation can do is try to sell me something I don’t want.

I think poisoning your water supply with benzene might be a bit worse.


You know the Federal government contracts out running prisons and the acquisition of execution materials to private entities right?




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