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the window is un-limited so there is not rush. the government has been for sale for a long time and will continue to be so regardless of who is “running the cou
by bdangubic 10mo ago
the window is un-limited so there is not rush. the government has been for sale for a long time and will continue to be so regardless of who is “running the country”
- solumunus 10mo ago[flagged]
- bdangubic 10mo agoyes
- wyldfire 10mo ago> the government has been for sale for a long time The government has been under significant influence of corporations for a long time: this is true. But now bribes are being accepted unabashedly. Presumably, hopefully, this won't last beyond the current administration. To equate the two is dishonest.
- bdangubic 10mo ago[flagged]
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- bdangubic 10mo agonope, I just don’t fall for the sensantionalism and clickbait shit like “oh oh shit is really bad now, OMG we were such a sancuary before but look at us now…”
- arcatech 10mo agoNobody in these comments has said that. You keep arguing against something that isn't being said here.
- bdangubic 10mo ago> what they're saying is that it has gotten so bad now that the crimes are being committed constantly and in the open with no fear or worry that anything bad will ever happen. this is all false and coming from your own echochamber. it has always been this way, just now you read to much shit on your social media feed and getting all upset how sky is falling, democracy is dying, shit real bad now…
- queenkjuul 10mo agoLiterally nobody has said things were good before. Only that they are objectively worse now
- wyldfire 10mo ago[flagged]
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- queenkjuul 10mo agoWhy would you think I'm saying that
- bdangubic 10mo agoAre you saying that just because maga people say something is true that it is actually true?
- queenkjuul 10mo agoSo why would i also be saying that
- bdangubic 10mo ago[flagged]
- queenkjuul 10mo agoYou can make all sorts of hilariously wrong assumptions about me all you want, but i won't entertain them. I'm not on the team you think I'm on. My media diet isn't what you think it is. You're reading an awful lot into what i did actually say, and i think it's pretty revealing.
- arunabha 10mo agoCan you tell me the last US president to accept literal bars of gold and jumbo jets from foreign monarchs? Or the last one who ran a crypto coin, pardoned a crypto billionaire who he claimed not to know?
- bdangubic 10mo agohow is that different than say this? - https://www.npr.org/2016/06/12/481718785/clinton-scandals-a-guide-from-whitewater-to-the-clinton-foundation https://www.npr.org/2016/06/12/481718785/clinton-scandals-a-... I can list other Admins as well if necessary? Trump insanity is public though, maybe we like our corruption more private, is that it?
- nathan-wall 10mo agoYou seem to have a problem with, for starters, differences of scale. All corrupt politicians should be prosecuted, and we have had our fair share. All politicians are not equally as corrupt, and the differences in the levels of corruption are staggering.
- bdangubic 10mo agohow do you measure this? by number of clickbait-y articles you get fed inside your echochamber? or is there a more scientific scale by which we measure corruption that I can educate myself on?
- arunabha 10mo agoAn imprecise, but workable start might be to count the dollar amounts in question and evidence of direct conflict of interests. In both, the current administration has far exceeded previous ones. As others have pointed out, the degree and magnitude of corruption matters. While all corruption is problematic, there is a vast difference between bribes of billions of dollars vs a few thousand. Or, if you prefer, you can count the number of times a president has pardoned someone he openly says he doesn't know anything about. At least the previous presidents tried to make up a plausible sounding reason.