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Re:Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime by mercurial on Monday April 08, 2013 @07:32AM (#5511076)
> What kind of immoral, capitalistic people are in charge in the US.

People who know where the funding for the next electoral campaign vote comes from. It's a free market: as a voter, you're the product, the corporations are the customers.

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Re:Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime by locopati on Monday April 08, 2013 @09:52AM (#5511647)
You say this as if treating elections and voting as a market should be acceptable.
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Re:Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime by mercurial on Monday April 08, 2013 @10:47AM (#5511967)
I don't. I'm just calling a spade a spade. Not to say this is the case with all lawmakers, but corporations have much more influence over politics than they ought to, especially in the US (or so it seems as a European)
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