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> Again, this is not true. RTE broke both the Ansbacher scandal (where all the rich had offshore accounts) and lots and lots of the planning corruption stories

> Again, this is not true. RTE broke both the Ansbacher scandal (where all the rich had offshore accounts) and lots and lots of the planning corruption stories that became all the 90s/00s tribunals. What?? RTE didn't break that - the Revenue did. RTE had to cover it, because it would have been obvious if they didn't. (And to this day, not one person has been prosecuted over it). All those tribunals came to nothing, and RTE have defended DOB in particular right to the hilt. Ever see the terror on Tubs' face when Denis' name comes up? They could hardly be more obviously corrupt, and the BAI don't ever say a thing about it. > Any close relationship existed only in the heads of gullible politicians. I don't think they'd tell their employees about their deals with the "gullible" politicians who are canny enough to stay in power for the last hundred years. > This sort of weird accounting is basically everywhere. I hesitate to call it corruption, but it's super problematic. Bro. When corrupt behaviour is so normalised that you don't even see it as corruption, just 'problematic', that's a sign that your corruption calibrators need a good clean. And they really, really do. That's what I'm trying to tell you, but you seem to disagree even when you agree. > do you have a source for this claim as I haven't heard it before? https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/rte-scandal-whistleblower-claims-broadcaster-gave-kickbacks-of-50m-to-ad-agencies/a848924733.html https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/rte-scandal-whistleblowe...

disgruntledphd2 3y ago
> Bro. When corrupt behaviour is so normalised that you don't even see it as corruption, just 'problematic', that's a sign that your corruption calibrators need a good clean. And they really, really do. That's what I'm trying to tell you, but you seem to disagree even when you agree. This was entirely needless. I could have said that you sound like a raving paranoid, and that would have been equally needless. But I didn't (well, almost) because I'm trying to assume good intent. Lets be 100% clear, you don't know me, you have never (probably) met me and yet you are making assumptions on my integrity that are completely beyond the bloody pale. I'm going to bow out now, as this conversation is unlikely to improve my (or your, presumably) mood. Have a nice day!
- mandmandam 3y ago
  If I sound like a "raving paranoid" while describing things that actually happened, I think that says more about our regulators than about me. > I'm trying to assume good intent. Only for the DPC. Which is weird tbh, given that you haven't pointed to a single effective uncorrupt regulator that might prove the counterfactual. > you are making assumptions on my integrity that are completely beyond the bloody pale. Not my intention. G'luck!

disgruntledphd2 3y ago

> Bro. When corrupt behaviour is so normalised that you don't even see it as corruption, just 'problematic', that's a sign that your corruption calibrators need a good clean. And they really, really do. That's what I'm trying to tell you, but you seem to disagree even when you agree. This was entirely needless. I could have said that you sound like a raving paranoid, and that would have been equally needless. But I didn't (well, almost) because I'm trying to assume good intent. Lets be 100% clear, you don't know me, you have never (probably) met me and yet you are making assumptions on my integrity that are completely beyond the bloody pale. I'm going to bow out now, as this conversation is unlikely to improve my (or your, presumably) mood. Have a nice day!

mandmandam 3y ago
If I sound like a "raving paranoid" while describing things that actually happened, I think that says more about our regulators than about me. > I'm trying to assume good intent. Only for the DPC. Which is weird tbh, given that you haven't pointed to a single effective uncorrupt regulator that might prove the counterfactual. > you are making assumptions on my integrity that are completely beyond the bloody pale. Not my intention. G'luck!