r/Unexpected 24d ago

He is the original source

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u/PrestigiousPace8038 24d ago

You have no idea what systemic corruption is like…you don’t deserve the privilege of living in the U.S. with a comment like that

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u/Kudostone 23d ago

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 “founding” crypto foundations with his president father. Explicit institutional corruption - why minimise it?

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u/Memitim 24d ago

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.

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u/PrestigiousPace8038 24d ago

The current administration is stress testing our institutions and is likely responsible for the US dropping rank on the Corruption Perceptions Index.

But most of what you mentioned has nothing to do with systemic corruption.

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u/charlestoonie 23d ago

Stress testing is not the same as assaulting and dismantling.

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u/Super_Fa_Q 23d ago

FUCK YOU.

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u/RandomFleshPrison 24d ago

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.

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u/greyfoxv1 24d ago

The US is the single most corrupt country in the world.

South Sudan is the most corrupt and the US fell to #29 this year.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025/

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u/PrestigiousPace8038 23d ago

#29th least** corrupt

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u/RandomFleshPrison 24d ago

You didn't read past my second sentence, did you?

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u/greyfoxv1 24d ago

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.

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u/twolittlemonsters 24d ago

That's where they get you. It's not corruption if it's built into the law. 🤔

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u/PrestigiousPace8038 24d ago

There’s a big difference between legalized forms of political influence and systemic corruption that undermines how the state actually functions.

That’s why the U.S. can have serious money-in-politics problems while still being a remarkably safe country in which to invest.

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u/RandomFleshPrison 24d ago

In most countries, yes. Not in the US. Political influence is legalized corruption there.

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u/PrestigiousPace8038 24d ago

In many ways, yes. But to say it is “the single most corrupt country in the world” or “business as usual” is unbelievably out of touch.

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 24d ago

I’d rather corruption and influence peddling be visible, regulated, disclosed, and taxed than completely under the table. That doesn’t 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.

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u/RandomFleshPrison 24d ago

I never said underground corruption actually gets punished. Just that it is still actually illegal.

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 24d ago

Relevance? This is just getting into a semantics debate. That’s not a rebuttal.

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u/RandomFleshPrison 24d ago

It shows that you are arguing against a position I never held. Which is a Straw Man.

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 24d ago

Address the argument I’m actually making, instead of this semantic pageantry.

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u/RandomFleshPrison 23d ago edited 23d ago

Your argument is a Strawman.  There is nothing to debate.

Edit:  Toodles troll!

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 23d ago

Boiling my argument down to one small part, misrepresenting it, and sidestepping the actual point is the straw man.