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JT45242

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Tue Feb 9, 2021, 10:21 AM Feb 2021

Corporations and "conservative" pretzel logic

As I was contemplating the lawsuits against Giuliani, and the Fox News hosts over defamation -- I had read that for DEFAMATION type lawsuits, corporations like Dominion are not treated as people.

BUT -- Citizens United says that for the purposes of influencing elections with gazillions of dollars -- they are people.

Just trying how to understand how someone who claims to go by what the writers intended could have such views without cognitive dissonance causing their heads to go all "Scanners" and explode.

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Corporations and "conservative" pretzel logic (Original Post) JT45242 Feb 2021 OP
You say "pretzel logic" and I say "illogic" but both apply to the reTHUGS and their fuzzy abqtommy Feb 2021 #1
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