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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:22:08 -0500
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On 4/18/2025 3:44 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:23:27 -0400, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/17/2025 10:08 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 4/17/2025 9:01 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Oh, and "speech" in the form of millionaire or corporate campaign
>>>> contributions is an abomination.
>>>
>>> How so?
>>> If I have an individual right to free speech (and I absolutely do), then
>>> why may my right be curtailed when I join with others of like mind?
>>>
>>> It's a long standing feature of common law (well before USA) that
>>> corporations are fictitious persons, entitled to rights of their
>>> composite individuals when they act as one.
>>
>> Common law or not, I think the idea of a corporation being a "person" is
>> nuts. But even if one accepts their "personhood," they should be limited
>> to the amount of speech that _one_ person can produce.
>>
>> And "speech" measured in dollars is an abomination.
> 
> The party that spent by far, the most money in the 2024 Presidential
> campaign lost that election by a significant margin. That suggests to
> me that the amount of money spent is less significant than the
> characteristics of the candidates and the number of times and places
> that their campaign messages get repeated.
> --
> "Let it be"
> --Paul McCartney

Maybe.  Could also be the ethos of the speaker and the 
actual policies promulgated. For some voters, anyway.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971