• Makan@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 years ago

    Corruption has been legal since 1776; there’s not a day in this country where things weren’t corrupt, either morally or legally or what-have-you.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      Yeah, I’m just reading Parenti’s Democracy for the Few and it really lays out how the whole country has been bought and paid for from the start.

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      4 years ago

      Way before that. It’s been legal since the start of countries/empires as a concept.

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          Then it’s been legal since the Europeans set foot on the soil of what’s now the US. Let’s not kid ourselves in thinking the American revolution was about anti-tyranny. It was just about some other people wanting to be the tyrants in place of the then current tyrants.