“White people use funny words for bribery”
Has the author never heard of Barack Obama?
How the US Legalized Corruption
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#12Powerful people get rewarded: monetarily, in kind, through social status in every single political system that ever existed. Water is wet. Why is this an important article again?
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#13Ugh why bring race into this... Even if the author makes good points, he's not going to convince anyone by saying 'white people have funny words for bribes' in the first paragraph. This is coming from someone who 100% agrees with the rest of the article. Still, I won't share this with anyone I respect.
Yeah think about all the primarily non-white countries with legalized corruption. Would they ever blame the culture of the predominate race in that case? Dollars to donuts the answer is no.
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#14Ugh why bring race into this... Even if the author makes good points, he's not going to convince anyone by saying 'white people have funny words for bribes' in the first paragraph. This is coming from someone who 100% agrees with the rest of the article. Still, I won't share this with anyone I respect.
Dividing Americans down racial lines rather than socioeconomic lines literally helps the benefactors of this bribery gravy train keep their grip on America.
It's hard not to notice that socioeconomic lines largely follow racial lines.
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#15Seems like an overly simplistic take. How do you have any form of political donation without it being labeled a bribe under this way thinking? I'm for much harder reforms on political money but this article is surface level at best.
> How do you have any form of political donation without it being labeled a bribe under this way thinking?
You could:
- Not have political donations at all (many countries run this way)
- Have very strict accounting on political donations so they go the party, not the individual
- Force politicians / elected representatives to wear the logos of the companies that are paying them so it's more transparent.
> this article is surface level at best.
The first step to fixing a problem is to identify there is a problem at all. As the article says, most have become to numb to this because it's seen as normal.
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#16To the comments that discredit the article for "bringing race into" the discussion, it's worth noting that:
1. the author is not white, nor lives in a place where white people are any sort of majority.
2. politics has largely been dominated by white people for much of America's history, so it's likely fair that these patterns were started and perpetuated by white people.
3. the author doesn't exempt non-white politicians from scrutiny (i.e. Obama doesn't get a pass).
4. it doesn't make his points any less valid, which is where the merit of this post lies.
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#17This article seems to use a lot of misleading language.
Like: "The US Treasury Secretary, for example, has taken $7.2 million in ‘speaking fees’ from the people she’s supposed to be regulating."
Not mentioned is that the speaking fees were prior to her being the US Treasury Secretary. They were all after she left her post at the Federal Reserve, and before becoming the Treasury Secretary.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dividing Americans down racial lines rather than socioeconomic lines literally helps the benefactors of this bribery gravy train keep their grip on America.
It's hard not to notice that socioeconomic lines largely follow racial lines.
So what? You treat every person as an individual. "It is hard not to notice scientific breakthroughs largely follow racial lines" See how idiotic and inappropriate that line is?
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#19“White people use funny words for bribery” Has the author never heard of Barack Obama?
He mentions Obama in the article. I read "white" as being a generic term for Americans.
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#20>America and the UK are the most corrupt places on Earth
That’s a bold statement when NK and China both exist. I’m thinking this guy really hates America and won’t let reality stand in the way of his hatred.