Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread • Hacker News Board

Re: Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

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Post by mitxela » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 6:44 AM UTC

vjvjvjvjghv wrote: post #152

socalgal2 wrote: post #72

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U.S. Trust in Government Depends Upon Party Control https://news.gallup.com/poll/697421/trust-government-depends...

Same for supporting issues. If the "other" party proposes something, people are automatically against. As soon as "their" party supports it, they are all in. The MAHA movement is a good example. If democrats had said something about the problems with high sugar food or additives, republicans would have shouted "nanny state". Now that Kennedy is talking about it, they support it.

Chief republican politician Mitch McConnell once filibustered his own bill because democrats also supported it. https://theweek.com/articles/469675/mitch-mcconnells-amazing...

Re: Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

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Post by defrost » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 6:45 AM UTC

blooalien wrote: post #278

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #61

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It's more like a third. > 35% approve, 61% disapprove, 5% not sure https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

> 35% approve I also gotta wonder what percentage of this group is amplified beyond reality by bot armies and hostile foreign actors. There can't really be that many people so completely detached from reality, can there?

> so completely detached from reality

isn't really the crux of the problem with modern day USofA, more and more people are completely attached to their algo tuned bubble, curated for them by the data scientists of .

It's not just the hostile bot armies of foreign actors tugging on the strings of perception, the distortion is coming from inside the borders.

Re: Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

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Post by klntsky » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 6:51 AM UTC

My impression is that americans got only those types of corruption most people can't benefit from personally (like skipping fines, getting some minor government benefits, local permits, getting legal work processed faster, etc). For most of them it's just on the TV and on the social media.

Re: Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

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Post by padjo » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 6:53 AM UTC

I mean the Supreme Court made bribery legal in Snyder so it's hard to imagine why anyone would think corruption isn't rampant.

Re: Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

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Post by fifticon » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 6:57 AM UTC

rush86999 wrote: post #182

It's like everyone knows the dirty truth, but no one wants to do anything about it. Why? Self-interest has made everyone blind to open corruption. The worst part is reality hits 3-4 years later, and the big guy is already out and about. Already with his billions, partying in the Caymans. Welcome to democratic oligarchy!!

The worse part is whatever competent hoodlums will arrive after him, to enjoy the gates he has crashed

Re: Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

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Post by 0xDEAFBEAD » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 6:57 AM UTC

Chermska1 wrote: post #270

0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #127

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Here's a map which attempts to estimate when slavery was abolished across various parts of the world: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/zsnr8q/year_of_abo... The US wasn't much of an outlier. As a general rule, anyone who tries to use slavery as a skeleton key to understand US politics is most likely an ideologue with an agenda. Sane people don't propose struggle sessions for events which happened 100+ years…

The poster you responded to did not mention slavery, they mentioned the confederacy, which held a variety of views, many of which still inform the politics of many Americans today. Acknowledging this reality seems reasonable. Your replies indicate your disdain for appeals to the history of American slavery in political discussions, yet you were the one who brought it into the conversation, diverting the thread by ini…

This is bad faith hair-splitting. You know perfectly well what tshrimple thinks "Nuremberg trials" were needed for, or why they think confederates were "evil fucks".

Re: Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

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Post by TylerE » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 6:59 AM UTC

blooalien wrote: post #278

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's more like a third. > 35% approve, 61% disapprove, 5% not sure https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

> 35% approve I also gotta wonder what percentage of this group is amplified beyond reality by bot armies and hostile foreign actors. There can't really be that many people so completely detached from reality, can there?

Lotta racists and other bigots that like a president that "agrees" with them.

Re: Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

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Post by 0xDEAFBEAD » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 7:00 AM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #246

hackernud3s wrote: post #218

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I was thinking more that Nazi's rounded up and gassed a million Jews. So I'm not in a forgiving mood if you're making joking comparisons or trying to be cute.

They did that in the end. In the decade leading up to the final solution they engaged in a lot of shenanigans that have already been replicated by maga.

Many governments engage in "shenanigans". One of the biggest mass deportations in US history was directed by Eisenhower, the same guy who beat the Nazis. Switzerland just recently considered a more severe halt to immigration than anything contemplated by the US.

Re: Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

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Post by Hikikomori » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 7:03 AM UTC

0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #196

tw04 wrote: post #184

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The question isn’t whether prisoners work in other countries which I’m confident you know and dodged. The question is whether the prisons in Brazil are private, and are allowed to sell prison labor FOR A PROFIT, incentivizing both greater incarceration rates, and disincentivizing release. The answer is no, I’m not aware of ANY other country that allows a private organization to profit off the labor if people imprison…

You're moving the goalposts. Your comment stated: "And does Brazil have their own 13th amendment that allows them to use prison labor as their modern slave workforce?" The article I linked states: "Most countries’ legal systems, however, carve out an exception for prisoner-workers, permitting the state to require them to work..." So my quote directly answers your original concern. Your new concern is about private pr…

>You're moving the goalposts

Rich from someone that brought up slavery from nowhere.

Re: Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

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Post by dandanua » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 7:04 AM UTC

I wouldn't call it corruption when the richest man decides how the government's money should be spent. He is not an official, after all. I would call it a dead democratic system. EOL.