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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

Cool. Now let's make immigrants legally people in the US.

[–] SurfinBird 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Pretty sure that means they’re corporations too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

No corporations have more rights than people

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

That holds true by the transitive property. It's just good math.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

An american court ruled about the Hippos in Columbia, so it 's just theoretical:

“The ruling has no impact in Colombia because they only have an impact within their own territories. It will be the Colombian authorities who decide what to do with the hippos and not the American ones,” said Camilo Burbano Cifuentes, a criminal law professor at the Universidad Externado de Colombia.

Article from 2021:

https://apnews.com/article/hippos-animals-personhood-pablo-escobar-e89daf05efb37efd3d35e6dabce56726

There are 170 hippos in Columbia, they are all descendants of the 4 animals Escobar brought there in the 1970s. Their number will reach 1000 in 2035 if they can't find a solution. They are trying to sterilize them, and transporting them to mexico and india, more info about current efforts on wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamuses_in_Colombia