• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    2 hours 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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    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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    12 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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      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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        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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      11 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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        10 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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    18 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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      17 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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        10 hours ago

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

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            Let’s be honest they’re opium is nothing like modern fentanyl. Their weapons are nothing like what I can pick up at Walmart. Their methods of communication weren’t even in their infancy compared to things like telephony in the internet.

            Some of them would be high off their tits in the street, I’m certain Benjamin Franklin would be addicted to porn…

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      Exactly. Many were historians and Christians.

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

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