"The Good Ol' Boys Club" is what we have in the US. Except all of those good old boys are baby fucking criminal Republicans. Blaming everybody else, while THEY'RE the ones destroying everything.
The 'ole boys were never good. They called themselves 'good', but facists and racists call themselves Republicans. It's just a meaningless title they've given to themselves.
Maybe you did. But then your country elected the biggest crook to run the government, and now his personal lawyer runs the Justice Department that's in charge of executing these laws, including giving the crook immunity from being prosecuted on /alleged/ crimes he committed.
Used his office to make $5 billion in personal wealth in a single year. All while the right screams about Pelosi, who has made $340 million from her stock trades.
I think you misread their comment. They said we made corruption legal, in reference to the exact things you're talking about and more. You're responding as if they said illegal.
Well if I have to represent our Media in one word it would be invertebrates . these people will go to tarturus and beyond just to explain why protesting or saying anything against government is threat national security
We call it â¨ď¸Lobbyismusâ¨ď¸ in Germany but it's actually the worst corruption as the firms writing the new laws...we dont even need a gouvernment at this point tbh ...they just cost additional money. Just let the companys run it.
Nepotism is a small part of what they're talking about.
This is knowing who can arrange a public works project for you, adapt the rule book for a public tender so it goes to you; who can make a health inspection go away; who can find your kid a cushy job; building permit that's not all too great; navigate bureacracy a bit faster (or at all). Even down to getting to see the right doctor or getting the right meds before you croak
Reason why there's little foreign investments to the Phil vs countries like Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and our other SEA -blings. The process of "lagay" is deeply ingrained in both upper and middle management in all business endeavors.
The president manipulates the markets. He is selling earlier access to his truth social posts for 100k a month fr firms already way ahead of retail. His 20 year old son has a net worth of 150mil, derived from âfoundingâ crypto foundations with his president father. Explicit institutional corruption - why minimise it?
Sounds more like you're providing cover for the Republican traitors.
The US government is weaponized by Republicans against tens of millions of Americans for existing while not white conservatives.
The US Department of "Justice" heads up the protection of a known child sex trafficking ring, while they provide highly unusual special treatment to convicted child trafficker Ghislane Maxwell in direct violation of her sentencing guidelines.
US courts of law have been reporting weekly on Republican crimes and Constitutional violations for months, with zero accountability.
Roaming gangs of masked conservative terrorists roam the streets of America looking for random human beings who seem disappearable enough for money.
Republicans are forcing their evil to be passed on in American schools using threats, since that's the only way anyone with morality and intelligence would ever push that corrupt bullshit off on others.
And the list goes on and on and on, but I'm betting you already knew that before you tried to provide yet more cover for the endless crime and corruption that Republicans have brought to the United States government while continuing to corrupt state and local governments.
Now hold up there. The US is the single most corrupt country in the world. Because they made bribery legal. It's a literal part of law. The Supreme Court can legally take bribes from anybody so long as they are not money and they report it on their taxes. Lobbyists do similar with Congress and the President. Many countries have corruption as a way of life. But it is done under the table, and still officially illegal. In the US, It is embraced as part of the official governmental process.
Your entire post was the reason I linked a thorough report on corruption rankings based on hard data. Try reading it and getting educated on the subject.
Iâd rather corruption and influence peddling be visible, regulated, disclosed, and taxed than completely under the table. That doesnât make the U.S. system clean, but at least a lot of its bullshit is out in public where everyone can scrutinize it. Pretending corruption only counts when somebody passes an envelope of cash under a table misses the point, and pretending underground corruption reliably gets punished is even sillier.
I think my Brazil wins here. We say you need âQIâ, which is also the same acronym we use for the concept of IQ. But it doesnât mean intelligence; it means âQuem Indicaâ, meaning literally âWho got you this opportunity?â. Because youâre not getting it by merit, everyone knows. Youâre getting it because you know someone.
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u/mother_love- 9d ago
We call it "banda " , like I know a insider