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Counterpoints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal https:/
by TylerE 29d ago
Counterpoints:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanborn_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanborn_incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Ring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Ring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1869) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1869)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9dit_Mobilier_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9dit_Mobilier_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_land_fraud_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_land_fraud_scandal
and that's just the 19th century, nevermind the 20th.
- VertanaNinjai 29d agoYour counter points span decades. That is not the scale or rate at which we are seeing today.
- Arodex 29d agoSee this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572770
- JohnHaugeland 29d agowow, in 150 years we find a handful of things much smaller than what has happened in the last 2 years the whisky ring is definitely relevant to a discussion of today’s problems this isn’t a ridiculous padded list of whataboutism