Recent content by NoHolyCows

Game plan NHC

You’re still conflating ordinary liberty with state-conferred legal power, and that’s the mistake you keep circling without ever landing. Going to the bathroom is not “delegated authority.” It doesn’t create a separate legal actor, doesn’t aggregate other people’s money, doesn’t shield anyone...

You keep circling one example because you want to reframe a campaign finance rule as if it were the first federal ban on political speech in U.S. history. That premise is false. The Hillary movie fight happened because federal election law already restricted corporations from using general...

Because corporations are not just “groups of people” doing the same thing individuals do. They are a distinct legal instrument that exists only because the state grants it special economic features that no individual or informal group has. That’s what makes them different, and that’s why the law...

You’re still pretending this is about who is rich instead of what the legal structure allows, and that’s the entire dodge. No one is claiming corporations have a special right to speak that others lack. The issue is that incorporation grants a state-created capacity to convert pooled capital...

This is about First Amendment rights, but you keep smuggling in a false premise that every exercise of speech must be treated identically regardless of structure. The Constitution protects speech; it does not guarantee every legal construct the same mechanisms to project it. Calling...

You’re smuggling in a false choice. Nobody is proposing “billionaires can speak but the ACLU can’t.” The ACLU speaks right now, loudly, every day. The actual dispute is whether a state granted business form gets to convert pooled, liability shielded, potentially perpetual treasury money into...

Because you keep swapping “speech” for “treasury spending behind a liability shield.” People have rights. Associations of people have rights. A corporation is a tool the state recognizes to pool money, separate liability, and persist beyond any member. The argument is whether that tool’s pooled...

It does retain First Amendment protections through the people inside it. What you are demanding is something stronger and different, that the state-created entity itself be treated as an independent political speaker with the same standing as a citizen. That leap is the entire controversy, and...

You’re arguing against a strawman you invented. “Corporations are not people” is shorthand for one narrow point, corporate status does not entitle an entity to the full political rights of a human voter. Straight answer about the ACLU. The ACLU can speak. No one is trying to gag it. What it...

The ACLU isn’t people; its members are. The corporation has some First Amendment protection to speak and publish, but it doesn’t hold the full set of human rights. It cannot vote, claim a self-incrimination privilege, assert personal liberty interests, or demand the same electoral leeway as a...

That’s wrong in law and in practice. A corporation carries state-granted shields that a family or club does not. Limited liability against involuntary creditors. Entity asset partitioning. Perpetual life. Easier capital aggregation through transferable shares. Those privileges are why corporate...

Yes answer, clean and final, the ACLU isn’t people. If you think it is, do any one thing with the ACLU itself and not its members, make it cast a ballot, swear an oath, or sit in a jail cell. You can’t. Legal personhood lets a paper entity own property and sue; it doesn’t turn a charter into a...

Lumpen, no one said “the ACLU has no rights.” Here’s the clean line, people are people; a corporation is a state-created vehicle. Fact, its treasury exists because the state grants privileges, limited liability, perpetual life, asset pooling. Therefore when that treasury is used to electioneer...

And that’s exactly the sentence that started this mess, because it compresses way more than you say you believe into one glib line. If “just a bunch of Arabs doing what they learned from the civilized world” is all you mean, then either: you are downplaying Sudanese and regional agency, or...