• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    20 minutes ago

    At first I thought “wow Trump has a friend’s back” then I remembered Trump doesn’t have any friends, hmmm why he do this?

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    26 minutes ago

    At this point, some hacker (even one with thigh-high striped socks) is gonna take one for the team and leak the declassified Epstein Files, and as well as post every piece of information about the ICE agents. Seriously!

  • lennybird@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Easier to take bribes with crypto. I still stand by this being a huge factor in reduced accountability and accelerating corruption.

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      57 minutes ago

      I still stand by this being a huge factor in reduced accountability and accelerating corruption innovation of capitalism.

      Corruption succeeds within a corrupt system.

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        34 minutes ago

        Personally I’m partial to believing that capitalism is like a nuclear reactor; can be good, can be bad. Needs sophisticated control rods to maintain stability and prevent it from getting out of control.

        Nordic model nations in a nutshell who are realized not idealized models for some of the happiest and most stable nations on the world.

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      9 hours ago

      My conspiracy theory is that BTC took off because Russia used as a tool to avoid sanctions. If you look at a chart the timeline matches up and they have had sizeable crypto holdings.

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        8 hours ago

        Oh 100% agreed. Also no surprise that the likes of Musk and Russia have heavily promoted, defended, and relied upon encrypted communications like Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, etc.

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    16 hours ago

    We were always told the framers of the Constitution were old timey genius’s, but they couldn’t foresee a corrupt piece of shit selling pardons? It’s ridiculous and should never have been a presidential power. They fucked up.

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      15 hours ago

      They expected that voters/citizens and other branches of govt wouldn’t stand for it.

      Instead they’re either in on it or too cowardly to do anything.

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        8 hours ago

        In all fairness, they never could have prepared for the impact the internet has on politics.

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      14 hours ago

      Exactly. Many were historians and Christians.

      They already had the previous example of indulgences within the Catholic Church.

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    18 hours ago

    This can be easily explained: Trump is a two-bit fraudster, and low-level gang members such as himself are expected to look out for their organizations’ leaders.

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    18 hours ago

    Sure, why the fuck not? It’s not like laws matter anymore, apparently.