Nov 28, 2018
Doodle break: 11 27 18
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Russia
seen from France
seen from China
seen from Ireland
seen from China
seen from China
seen from Sweden
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Denmark
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Ireland
seen from Denmark
seen from China
Doodle break: 11 27 18
Dreamed about performing a Dutch spoken word piece over music that started with the sentence "Anne Swassant, ik vind hem echt een roofvogel man"
Didn't realize it meant 1960s in French lol in the dream I wrote that performance for a showcase and there was a live band performing with me who didn't realise I hadn't prepared fully yet and kept playing while I was still searching.
Anne Swassant isn't a real person, but in my dream he was the producer of a controversial Dutch talent show
This face is from This Person Doesn't Exist (the face is computer generated) and thus this is my character's face:
Dear God, why did I think it was a good idea to look at a FB based OUAT group again. Please, someone tell me I'm not the only one who believes Belle is a shameless hussy of a whore after last season? Because I'm starting to wonder now.
Suggested by Anonymous and umbreonfreak.
FICTIONAL CRIMINALS
In 1886 the Supreme Court declared corporations to be "fictional persons" with the same rights and protections as you and I. Since then, the Court has steadily expanded the rights of corporate "persons" up to and including last year's Citizens United decision granting them the right to spend unlimited amounts of money to buy elections.
When it comes to crime and punishment, these corporate "persons" actually have rights which are far different from ours, particularly the biggest ones.
When a corporation is found breaking the law, it's usually the corporation -- the fictional person -- which gets punished meaning, the stockholders pay a fine. The actual flesh and blood persons who oversaw or ignored the criminal behavior are left alone. It's like you and I having an avatar which goes to jail for us every time we rob a bank.
Actually, since 2003, the government doesn't even bother prosecuting. Instead, they offer "deferred prosecution agreements" whereby the corporate criminal pays a fine and agrees to certain behaviors in lieu of a trial. "Fictional persons" which have recently avoided prosecution in this way include AIG, AOL, Barclays Bank, Boeing, BP, Daimler Chrysler, Halliburton, Health South, Merrill Lynch, Pfizer, and UBS.
It gets worse. Since the actual fines involved are generally pretty small, why shouldn't executives decide to keep on breaking the law and treat the fines as a cost of doing business? If profits gained from illegal activities exceed the fines, why not?
Serious fraud in our biggest banks and brokerage firms damaged millions of lives, yet not a single executive has been put on trial, much less gone to jail. Instead, they've been given bailouts and bonuses.
The way it stands, "fictional persons" get to be "fictional criminals" as well, and they enjoy a very different criminal justice system than the one that punishes you and me.