3 ms·
By the same token: you are making these statements with the same level of certainty as "water is wet": the US is less corrupt because duh. However, the main re
by riehwvfbk 2y ago
By the same token: you are making these statements with the same level of certainty as "water is wet": the US is less corrupt because duh. However, the main reason for your argument is mostly marketing: the US has successfully marketed itself as "free" and "fair" over the years. Whether or not this is factual is very much debatable.
Oh, and don't bother looking up studies by US-based think tanks ranking the US as awesome at fighting corruption. Because duh.
- jncfhnb 2y agoThere are many studies that are not run by the US. Even the US based one’s tend to put the US at maybe the bottom of the top quartile. There’s many countries that score significantly better. I think it’s kind of stupid to argue that corruption is more prevalent in the US than China, but mostly I’m just here to shit on the argument that a cherry picked conviction is worth anything as an argument that corruption is less tolerated. Targeted convictions on charges of corruption are like the hallmark of corrupt governments. It’s not a useful data point at all.