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In reply to the discussion: Do Bernie fans not understand the difference between people and corporations? [View all]reformist2
(9,841 posts)59. No, but the top people at those big banks are suspect.
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Do Bernie fans not understand the difference between people and corporations? [View all]
DanTex
Oct 2015
OP
So you say that people "love" government favoring corporations? Show us the polls please!
cascadiance
Oct 2015
#49
Well, personally I'm pretty offended by her support for H-1B visa program expansion...
cascadiance
Oct 2015
#144
It's not a smear to say she's a shill when she advocates H-1B visa expansion...
cascadiance
Oct 2015
#147
Even those that work for these "body shops" as "indentured servants" would be insulted as well...
cascadiance
Oct 2015
#154
If they want people like me who've been screwed by this shit to vote for them they will!
cascadiance
Oct 2015
#159
Corporations and other entities are organizational entities, NOT people...
cascadiance
Oct 2015
#145
The Koch brothers are laughing at you (or laughing with you if you are one of the 1%)...
cascadiance
Oct 2015
#153
You've simplisticated that. Under Citizs United corps can give all they want to SuperPacs.
leveymg
Oct 2015
#47
I sure hope you're reading from talking points, Dan. If this is your takeout, it mispeaks
leveymg
Oct 2015
#81
I find that disinformation seems to be the purpose of all of this poster's missives.
Blus4u
Oct 2015
#156
Gee, I hope that chemist working hard for cancer cures is not thrown under the bus.
leftofcool
Oct 2015
#7
It's illegal for an employer to coerce workers to donate to political campaigns.
DanTex
Oct 2015
#14
It is illegal to kill thousands of works every year because you didn't provide safe equipment
Omaha Steve
Oct 2015
#17
Obviously you have evidence that Goldman and Pfizer and the rest are illegally coercing their
DanTex
Oct 2015
#19
But, she's perfectly happy to take corporate money given to her captive SuperPacs
leveymg
Oct 2015
#64
Interesting. What you're implying is, first, that Hillary is going to win (you're right about that)
DanTex
Oct 2015
#86
"Their bosses have nothing to do with that." Oh please. I know bosses "can't coerce"
99th_Monkey
Oct 2015
#31
Like Omaha Steve, I'm sure you have evidence that Hillary's donations have been coerced.
DanTex
Oct 2015
#32
I've already SAID .. "of course employers cannot coerces" <- i don't disagree
99th_Monkey
Oct 2015
#33
Well, without coercion, all those donations that Bernie fans keep complaining about
DanTex
Oct 2015
#38
Dark Money donors - by definition - cannot be traced or identified, so it's anyone's guess on those
99th_Monkey
Oct 2015
#76
Like I said, you repeated the same mistake of pretending that individual donations come from
DanTex
Oct 2015
#94
None of them, as far as I could tell, presented any evidence of a Wall St bank or big pharma
DanTex
Oct 2015
#103
You can't actually be seriously claiming that coercion wouldn't cover opportunities for promotion
mythology
Oct 2015
#84
I can't prove that banks that paid fines in the millions are honest on EVERYTHING else they do
Omaha Steve
Oct 2015
#35
Of course you don't. That would cause you to question your strident position.
Ed Suspicious
Oct 2015
#152
They can't coerce but they can advertise their company PAC and solicit contributions
strategery blunder
Oct 2015
#97
The donations you see on all those internet charts are primarily from individuals directly
DanTex
Oct 2015
#99
Well considering the FEC literally can't enforce election laws due to political paralysis
strategery blunder
Oct 2015
#108
OK, but there aren't many of them. I don't know of the CEOs wrote $2700 checks to Hillary,
DanTex
Oct 2015
#62
Show me the link where it says thousands of corporate officers from Wall Street, big pharma,
upaloopa
Oct 2015
#116
Yes, we've "heard that" many times, yet not a single person has been able to actually....
George II
Oct 2015
#123
The bankers who stole over half of the middle class wealth? Those bankers?
AgingAmerican
Oct 2015
#27
They are very much like extortionists! The more Bernie says this, the more the public will like him.
reformist2
Oct 2015
#60
By your logic, some could claim Bernie's in the pocket of Kaiser Permanente, Federal Coal
emulatorloo
Oct 2015
#68
Yes. Corporations are the ones that bailed Hillary out of being "dead broke".
Tierra_y_Libertad
Oct 2015
#29
Let's put it this way. I don't think the people who work in Wal Mart stores ...
Armstead
Oct 2015
#126
Hey, Goldman Sachs, et. al. did NOT water-board their employees to get those Hillary donations!!
99th_Monkey
Oct 2015
#104
Clinton's been a loyal warrior for Wall Street, pharma, and the MIC, and her campaign is rolling in
MisterP
Oct 2015
#82
Corporations don't donate money to campaigns. The money on those charts you see comes from
DanTex
Oct 2015
#89
In what ways, I'm wondering, does Hillary break from the ideology of compassionate conservatism?
Ed Suspicious
Oct 2015
#151
anything a Hillary supporter does or can understand, a Sanders supporter long has
stupidicus
Oct 2015
#117
As Progressives we are smart enough to know the difference between individual donations
Autumn
Oct 2015
#128
The blind hatred of us that hate UNCONSTITUIONAL "corporate PERSONHOOD" is more ridiculous!
cascadiance
Oct 2015
#160