• Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
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    Mastercard is a several hundred billion dollar company.

    They’re actually literally the kind of institution that should be willing to open themselves up to liability to fight for citizens rights, instead of always taking a hard-line against citizens at the behest of the Federal government. They absolutely have the money to fight such a thing in court, if the Federal government cracked down on them… and to remind you… The Fed’s haven’t done that. I would say they had a leg to stand on vis a vis liability if the Federal government had made an example of them in the past nearly 30 years since medical marijuana was first legalized in California in 1996.

    This is just puritan bullshit with a hand-wavey excuse as to why.

    They have the money to fight it and easily win, if they cared. They don’t. It’s not about liability. The Federal government has a long history of not bringing a case unless they’re absolutely going to win it, they don’t waste the money. They haven’t been liable yet in decades, so why now?

    Why now is an exercise in puritan control. Just like these chucklefucks do to sex workers in the porn industry.

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        1 year ago

        It’s not like the DOJ would put anyone in jail. They would get fined and then move on with their fucking day.

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          They could lose millions and third party payment processors would potentially cut ties with them. It could literally tank their entire business. Don’t get me wrong. I wish weed was legal and I also wish there wasn’t financial pressure from banks and lending institutions to blackball the weed industry, but if there is any industry that is going to stick strictly to federal law, it’s the financial sector. I don’t think they have anything against weed, I think they have something against loosing millions of dollars.

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            I think you really overestimate how hard the US government is willing to go against rich private corporations, no matter what they do.

            Norfolk Southern got complete control of the situation when they derailed a train with toxic chemicals in a small Ohio town. Their losses have not been catastrophic to the company, they’re still chugging along.

            And they poisoned an entire town of people! Feds slapped em on the wrist and moved on.

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      Corporations don’t give a shit about citizens rights or improving the lives of citizens, they only care about ever increasing profits to the exclusion of all else