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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago

How to eliminate corruption

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How to eliminate corruption

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago
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  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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    “Corporations are people and money is speech!”

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Yet they are allowed to buy and eat other “people”

  • pleiades@lemmy.ml
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    They’re just voting with their dollars, it’s real democracy!

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    It’s freedom.

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    I recall someone once saying they found a comparison between bribery and lobbying and the explanation for why lobbying wasn’t bribery was cause it’s legal, lol

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      that’s cause it’s literally what it is, legalized bribery

  • Smeagol666@crazypeople.online
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    I know, right? The Supreme Court was feeling left out, so they legalized bribery gratuities for judges.

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    Doesn’t this apply to all “democratic” countries?

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      it sure does, the US is just the most blatant about it

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Not all of them have a formalized lobbying mechanism. It still happens, but at least there’s a chance of a corruption sentence if it’s scandalous. In the US they are called “super donations” and bragged about

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    lobbying wasn’t enough they had to normalize insider trading . politician becoming corporation executives as well , truly the most corrupt government in history

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