• sleepundertheleaves@infosec.pub
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    6 hours ago

    Corruption is still a way of life in the United States. But the bribes we pay to cops and regulators cost so much, only corporations and multi-millionaires can afford them. Corruption in the Third World is democratic; here, it’s a privilege of the rich.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      44 minutes ago

      You clearly have no idea what it’s like outside the Western world.

      (That’s a statement about your own privilege, not a criticism of them)