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Re: China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes

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Post by fuckinpuppers » Sun, Jul 12, 2026, 2:12 AM UTC

In the US that’s republican representative behavior! With a pardon to boot

Re: China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes

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Post by ragazzina » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 12:34 PM UTC

insane_dreamer wrote: post #514

ragazzina wrote: post #422

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>plenty of people who are corrupt aren't purged This sounds really interesting, do you have any examples?

have you lived in China? just look around and you'll find plenty of examples. the country literally runs on "favors"

Ah OK, so no.

Re: China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes

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Post by rcbdev » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 6:18 AM UTC

mrandish wrote: post #500

rcbdev wrote: post #494

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> [...] but only if my boss and the company decided to be real jerks about it. Another reason not to work for jerks if you can avoid it. Worker protection rights in the U.S.A. truly are seen as a joke.

I've spent a lot of time in the EU working with tech companies, have a lot of friends there in tech companies and am on the board of a Swiss company at the moment. While it's true the average corporate worker generally has more protected rights in the EU, in my experience that additional government regulation doesn't usually pay off in ways that really matter that much to most employees most of the time. As a thought…

You assume that bay area technology jobs are the norm. They seem, as far as I can tell, to be the absolute anomaly in the U.S.

Tiger insurance seems very necessary for e. g. retail, restaurant, construction etc. workers in the U.S., as they seem to be disproportionally targeted by tigers and earn next to nothing.

Everyone deserves to be treated fairly, even if they don't live in California and know how to programm.