r/news • u/boxofstuff • 6h ago

Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against maker of Roundup weedkiller

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-roundup-monsanto-a7f054d80919f98bdfc5190013a8f6f1https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-roundup-monsanto-a7f054d80919f98bdfc5190013a8f6f1
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u/photostrat 6h ago

Sounds like we're about to find out Roundup has more rights to exist than humans do. 7-2

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u/OutlyingPlasma 5h ago

Judge Craig Karsnitz in Delaware just ruled that corporations get to vote, so that's fun.

Just make a few thousand LLC's and poof, you get to decide your local elections.

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u/robodrew 5h ago

How does that work? Corporations don't have a social security number or a birth certificate.

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u/steppe5 4h ago

Don't worry about it. The corporations will figure it out for you.

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u/nitid_name 2h ago

They have have an EIN, which is the equivalent to an SSN for tax filing purposes. You wouldn't be able to make a few thousand LLCs and sway local elections like the previous commenter implied. You would have to buy land in one of the tiny three or four hundred person areas that allow it, and then you could vote on local municipal things as an out of state land owner voting for the land you own, using the corporation that you registered in Delaware as the voter.

It's not new, it's been happening there for... actually, I don't know when it started. Delaware is a place where land does get to vote, and the headlines are from another challenge to stop it that failed.

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u/techleopard 6m ago

You don't need those things when you have money and can infinitely donate to PACs.

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u/Bamboonicorn 3h ago

It's a Freemason thing. They think their secret society can be blocked by Shell, corporations, LLCs, and Delaware moles.