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What is your quintessential example of a historical ruling or law of unintended consequences? (lemmy.world)

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I just learned that the egregious US Citizens United (2010) decision is a convoluted result of several altruistic campaign finance reforms beginning with the 1907 Tillman Act to FECA (1971) and Buckley v. Valeo (1976).

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[–] disregardable@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago

The same thing actually happened in Colonial Vietnam with the French and rats.

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