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Cool. Can they also drink and get married?
Libertarians prowling about and asking what the age of consent is for corporate entities
"But remember, taxing porky is a bad bad bad anti-freedom thing for meanie poos! Porky can take your vote because he's soooo special, but him paying taxes? How could you be so authoritarian?"
Wow. Thats one of the singular worst things I've ever heard outside of direct humanitarian atrocities.
Thats cool. Love it here. ๐
3/5ths compromise but instead of slaveowners counting slaves it's billionaires counting shell companies.
Shell companies are the default voting unit and humans can only be considered 3/5ths of a shell company at most
Does this mean that a billionaire can just create a few hundred thousand "entities" that can all vote? Registering that many corporations is only a couple hundred bucks, right?
A few hundred thousand votes in the right district seems like it means any election can be bought directly.
Yes.
I want to reiterate that Metropolis is canonically in Delaware, which means Lex Luthor could create a million shell companies to vote to outlaw Superman in the state.
Also Gotham is in South NJ, within view of Metropolis.
So what happens when this goes to the Supreme Court? Citizens United v2.0?
They declare that only corporations are people and legalize serfdom.
Fun (?) fact: Ontario allows property owners and their spouses to vote in municipal elections wherever they own property. But they need to own it personally, not via a corporation or trust.
Municipal politics in Canada in general are pretty wack because they aren't constitutionally defined as a level of government. Most cities don't even really have councillors with a real platform, they just kinda vote on what the vibes of the councillor are outside of the big three of Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.
Hard to have a platform if the mayor can do whatever they want ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I'm pretty sure this dogshit has cropped up a little in australia and must be frustrated wherever possible. ofc it's very limited but it shouldn't happen at all.
while local councils (effectively 'municipalities' elsewhere) are really the least effective/powerful in australia - we're very top-down in terms of 'federal->state->council' rights and responsibilities, especially moreso down south - Melbourne City Council allows the following with the justification that they administer the 'Central Business District' which mostly comprises of commercial property:
Who can enrol to vote?
If you are over 18, you can enrol to vote in the Melbourne City Council elections if you:
- rent a rateable property in the City of Melbourne โ you need to have lived there for a month or more. You do not need to be an Australian citizen
- own a rateable property in the City of Melbourne and live in it
- own a rateable property in the City of Melbourne and live somewhere else in Australia
- are a business owner, who owns or leases a commercial property in the city. You could be sharing the property with another business
- represent a company or corporation that owns or leases a rateable property* in the city.
*Rateable property means an occupancy which is capable of being separately valued under section 13DC of the Valuation of Land Act 1960 but is not a single parking space, mooring location or storage unit.
while i could go either way on citizenship/permanent resident requirements for voting in this tier of elections, they explicitly give fucking landlords and representatives of corporations votes. I also remember some bullshit about business votes possibly counting for double a regular vote or something, it makes me want to scream
this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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