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Originally Posted by 4-2-7
Corporations, 
Please do show me that reference in the amendment.
Even after I show you that "Contrabution" is not "Money" your mind is a wash. The lefty brainwashing of the big bad corporations and they're evil money. |
This is so typical of your 'argument--' you make a stupid claim, and then offer insult to any who don't buy your bushwah.
First of all, the word 'contribution' is not used in a vacuum. It is used in a proposed amendment. The amendment contains other words, arranged in sentences, that add essential meaning to the bare word. They explain and limit what is meant by 'contribution.' So every expansive sense of the word in the dictionary is not what was meant. What is meant, as the amendment says, is regulation of 'the raising and spending of money and in-kind equivalents with respect to Federal elections, including through setting limits on ... the amount of contributions to candidates...'
So we are not talking about every kind of contribution under the sun. We are talking about contribution, to candidates, of 'money and in-kind equivalents.' While it suits your polemic purpose to widen the sense of 'contribution' as much as you can, words in general are not used to mean every sense in the dictionary at once. Their meaning is narrowed by the context of use. Only stupid people, who don't understand this, will be impressed by your argument.
And your insulting claim that people who disagree with you are 'brainwashed' is ridiculous. Again, anyone who is not stupid can see that those who argue with you are aware, capable, discerning, and in every way your intellectual superiors. One is left to wonder what makes you think you have a mission to make stupid arguments in service of greedy power-seeking corporate interests. Do you imagine you are thus displaying intellect and power in debate? If so you are an utter idiot.
Or are you being paid to do this? You must hope your paymaster does not discover what a poor job your are doing, in that event.