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Defiant wrote:How in the hell are they going to even attempt to enforce this if it becomes law?
Same way they enforce the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism: Arbitrarily, selectively, extremely unfairly, and ultimately ineffectually. The only ones that stand to win from this shit are the prison-industrial complex, the entertainment industry, and any two-bit jackbooted thug with vendettas to pursue against his fellow man.

The losers? As usual for any government-sponsored inherently unwinnable War on X (where X is any essentially harmless vice that some rich holier-than-thou busybody asshole gets his pantyhose in a bunch over and buys a law banning it), We the People are the losers.


Welcome to Amerika, where literally everything is On Sale, including the government.
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Nice links all mighty and much feared railgunner.
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Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:"Fascism is Corporatism." --Benito Mussolini
Your use of this quote is misleading. "Corporatism" in Mussolini's day had little or nothing to do with "benefitting big corporations", but rather a system of govermental representation. From Wikipedia:
Historically, corporatism or corporativism (Italian corporativismo) is a political system in which legislative representation is given to corporations such as industrial, professional, or economic groups. Unlike pluralism, in which many groups must compete for control of the state, in corporatism, certain unelected bodies take a critical role in the decision-making process. This original meaning was not connected with the specific notion of a business corporation, being a rather more general reference to any incorporated body. The word "corporatism" is derived from the Latin word for body, corpus.
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
Defiant wrote:How in the hell are they going to even attempt to enforce this if it becomes law?
Same way they enforce the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism
The losers? As usual for any government-sponsored inherently unwinnable War on X (where X is any essentially harmless vice...

Terrorism is an essentially harmless vice? ;)

(Yeah, I know what you meant...)
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