Doomsday31415

Doomsday31415 t1_iy7aabt wrote

These oil companies should be forced to pay hundreds of trillions of dollars for the damage their disinformation campaigns have caused. At an estimated 1 trillion tons of excess CO2 and $600 per ton to remove it, $600,000,000,000,000 is the (current) cost to undo that just part of the damage.

Oh, they don't that much money? That's fine, we can just nationalize their asses instead.

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Doomsday31415 t1_itilj3x wrote

As far as the constitution is concerned, both fall squarely under the state's authority to regulate how businesses do business. There may be concerns about the state regulating international commerce, but that has nothing to do with the 1st amendment.

Also, the BLM example mentioned is a red herring. Keeping your doors open to a certain group is not "donating" to them.

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Doomsday31415 t1_it9e2pw wrote

The US military only provides equipment to movie studios that the US military approves of. All the others have to come up with all that equipment on their own, and are basically doomed to fail as a result.

Your "only this very specific narrow example" is a red herring that ignores that it's very common for the government to provide incentives (e.g. government contracts) for companies on condition of whatever the government wants.

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