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by throwaway189262 1879 days ago
The irony is that Republicans caused this. More specifically, the Senate leader Mitch McConnell.

He was instrumental in the Citizens United supreme court decision that gave free speech and unlimited campaign contributions to corporations as if they were people. Of course other Republicans hailed this decision at the time.

Well, now that corporations are saying and doing things they don't like I bet they're having second thoughts about their shameless loyalty to corporations over people.

Republicans of old would never fine corporations for enforcing their own community rules. But the Republican party of today is something else. Something darker, or much whiter, maybe both.

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>I bet they're having second thoughts about their shameless loyalty to corporations over people

The Disney amendment / exemption to that law seems to indicate otherwise.

It's similar to McConnells recent "My advice for corporations is stay out of politics. Not including contributions of course"

The hypocrisy level continually reaches new heights