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[–] [email protected] 265 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Amazing how much the US judiciary branch seems to hate the plebs.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 5 days ago (51 children)

Republicans have spent the last 40 years purchasing the entire system, obviously it works for them. They're the ones that paid for it.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 5 days ago

Note that it piggybacks on the SCROTUS decision earlier about preventing government from protecting anything from industry.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

at least we got actual consumer protection under biden’s FTC’s lawsuits and stuff…

edit: FTC, not FCC

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago

They will be promptly rolled back under President Musk

We are losing big time with each successive administration since Congress will never legislate in favour of the working class.

Relying on regulatory agencies for customer protection just creates endless opportunity for corpos to challenge anything favourable to the peasants.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The constitution only protects billionaires i guess.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Quite accurate since the US judiciaries are like kings, inmune, rule for life and get to write and struck down laws with the flimsiest "precedent" arguments. All they're missing is appointment via bloodline, but the sponsorship line seems to have taken its place.