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This is the sort of "made up data that is politically convenient" that I would expect to see only from the most corrupt governments in some of the poorest, most
by cs702 7y ago
This is the sort of "made up data that is politically convenient" that I would expect to see only from the most corrupt governments in some of the poorest, most underdeveloped parts of the world, not from the most powerful nation on earth. I'm speechless.
- jerf 7y agoThis is not even remotely new. You just haven't seen it before, because literally nobody cares about what these documents say.
- matheusmoreira 7y agoWhy would the USA not be corrupt just because it's a powerful nation? It covertly surveils its entire population and can strip citizens of their rights if they think they're terrorists. If anything, their power just makes the corruption worse.
- beepboopbeep 7y agoBecause it's a democracy with a very well established bureaucratic epidermis that stretches from federal to local level. It's a vast and complex entity that operates on defined rules. Until trump, the infection of fickle, cynical politics never made it very deep because the folks operating in that bureaucratic layer were career people with operational ethics (and frankly were quite boring-- by design), not nominated people. The sycophants are purging those people now. The rot is making its way deeper into the inner workings of the country like a cancer. Now they're not afraid of lying because that's what their rulers want them to do. Do whatever it takes to make the boss look good or suffer the consequences. That's the kind of behavior you expect from North Korea. Not the USA.
- omgwtfbbqhihihi 7y agoWell developed does not mean that it is well designed.
- beepboopbeep 7y agoApparently it was because we've been spared this north korea nonsense for so long.
- m463 7y agoIt's just like other countries, but the cost of corruption is in US dollars (more expensive). Traditionally the press has been the checks-and-balances solution. I wonder whether we will be better off now (with ubiquitous cheap communication) or worse (with big journalism disappearing).