re: Coke unveils plan to pay social media influencers 1000/post to argue against SNAP reform

How do they get approved in the first place? Claiming they are selling live crawfish to be cooked at home?

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Until citizens united is repelled and we out law lobbying we are wasting our time.

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Citizens cannot be repealed. It’s a court decision in favor of citizens and other non-media corporations making some key parts of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (the McCain–Feingold Act) unconstitutional that would have to be overturned by the Supremes or a have a constitutional amendment ratified.

The BCRA was flawed including banning issue advertising by non-profits like right to life and environmental organizations within a certain time frame before elections along with corporations and labor unions.

Other issues were handled in other cases including part that “increased the limit on financial contributions to nominees who are running against self-funded opponents in political campaigns”.

The govt’s deputy solicitor general representing the FEC made arguments that were actually problematic for the for BCRA and the FEC and triggered hearing case again on a broader basis than just Citizens ability to air it’s video.

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March 24, 2009, may go down as a turning point in the history of the campaign-finance reform debate in America. On that day, in the course of oral argument before the Supreme Court in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, United States deputy solicitor general Malcolm Stewart inadvertently revealed just how extreme our campaign-finance system has become.

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in the course of the ­argument, Justice Samuel Alito interrupted Stewart and inquired: "What's your answer to [the] point that there isn't any constitutional difference between the distribution of this movie on video [on] demand and providing access on the internet, providing DVDs, either through a commercial service or maybe in a public library, [or] providing the same thing in a book? Would the Constitution permit the restriction of all of those as well?" Stewart, an experienced litigator who had represented the government in campaign-finance cases at the Supreme Court before, responded that the provisions of McCain-Feingold could in fact be constitutionally applied to limit all those forms of speech. The law, he ­contended, would even require banning a book that made the same points as the Citizens United video.

There was an audible gasp in the courtroom. Then Justice Alito spoke, it seemed, for the entire audience: "That's pretty incredible." By the time Stewart's turn at the podium was over, he had told Justice Anthony ­Kennedy that the government could restrict the distribution of books through Amazon's digital book reader, Kindle; responded to Justice David Souter that the government could prevent a union from hiring a writer to author a political book; and conceded to Chief Justice John Roberts that a corporate publisher could be prohibited from publishing a 500-page book if it contained even one line of candidate advocacy.

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I do worry that Republicans will lose a lot of fat voters which unfortunately make up a far to large portion of our population.

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for god sakes, trump isn't banning junk food. He wants to ban the purchase of junk food with taxpayer dollars.

Fatties can still buy diet cokes and lil debbie to their hearts content.

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Costco and Sam’s shouldn’t be allowed either

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Why?

Even though there is little chance this is true, it’s not a bad strategy.

NIck Sorter taking out his competition for having their hand in the cookie jar.

This is corporate greed at its finest. The goal of a corporation is to earn more money than they did the previous year and in order to do that, they have to lobby the government to get contracts, get laws passed in their favor, etc. Corporations depend on welfare more than anything.

DO NOT ALLOW SNAP REFORM!!!

Does that count?

#Whereismy$1000

It’s shocking how easily people will sell out and sacrifice dignity for only $1,000.

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shocking out easily people will sell out and sacrifice dignity for only $1,000.

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The whole life of a man is basically selling himself out for dollars.