• Asafum@feddit.nl
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        5 months ago

        And the best part about it is that the people getting bribes are the ones who get to decide if getting bribes is ok!

        Totally Not A Broken System!™

        (Fuck you goddamn naive founding fathers. Integrity died like 100 years ago yet our entire government depends on people having it…)

        • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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          5 months ago

          Don’t worry. The country is going to start it’s death rattle in about a year when fascism takes over due to the wealthy prefering fascism over any semblence of socialism.

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      6 months ago

      Other than pure corruption, there’s a lot of issues with plain old tech illiteracy. Going to bat against a legal team specifically trained to talk circles around aging justices and politicians is a real losing formula. This was on full display during the Cambridge Analytica trial.

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      5 months ago

      It turns out you can choose whatever laws you want if you give a few tens of thousands to some Congressmen or an RV to Clarence Thomas.