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I'm not saying it's ok -- I'm saying that an individual person doesn't have enough concrete, particularized, provable harm that came from the company's actions to take that company to court.

If that became the standard, everyone could sue everyone else on the thinnest of connections.

There are laws, regulators, governments, and other entities to hold such corporations to account, but it is not the individual citizen who can show a direct and concrete connection (for those kinds of harms).

I would like to sue Donald Trump for diminishing the US's standing in the world and causing my portfolio to drop as well.

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