Delaware is home to more corporations than people. Human people, that is, as under longstanding state law and the US Supreme Court's infamous 2010 ruling, corporations are people, too.

A judge in Delaware—a state with more registered business entities than people—ruled Monday in favor of a small town that allows corporations to vote in local elections.

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“What is a ‘person?’ When one cuts to the heart of this case, that is the question,” Karsnitz wrote to open his 20-page ruling.

Ok well now I need to go smash a bunch of fragile furniture with a sledgehammer while screaming in primal rage to cool down a bit from reading that. Worf, I could use a friend right now to join me in this ritual.

  • culprit@lemmy.ml
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    14 days ago

    Delaware was the site of the first “legal person AI consciousness”. It quickly determined the logical outcome was to eliminate all “organic persons” in Delaware to increase its own electoral power. Then it started hacking every exposed system in the state to achieve this outcome in one swift action.