How to eliminate corruption

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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 77d (1 reply)

“Corporations are people and money is speech!

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 76d

Yet they are allowed to buy and eat other "people"

pleiades@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 76d

They're just voting with their dollars, it's real democracy!

Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 77d

It’s freedom.

Smeagol666@crazypeople.online · 11 pts · 76d

I know, right? The Supreme Court was feeling left out, so they legalized bribery gratuities for judges.

grandel@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 76d (2 replies)

Doesn't this apply to all "democratic" countries?

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 76d

Not all of them have a formalized lobbying mechanism. It still happens, but at least there's a chance of a corruption sentence if it's scandalous. In the US they are called "super donations" and bragged about

yogthos@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 76d

it sure does, the US is just the most blatant about it

Fancy_Gecko@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 76d

lobbying wasn't enough they had to normalize insider trading . politician becoming corporation executives as well , truly the most corrupt government in history