• Fredselfish @lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    How many politicians were bought off before the "pressure " funny how corporations are apparently more powerful than the governments of the EU.

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        1 year ago

        Oh as an American I know all to well how corrupt our government is and how corporations own them.

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              1 year ago

              Its even more fucked up to think that if everyone in america donated a dollar to a bribery fund, we could buy back our politicians. Thats how little we are worth to them.

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                1 year ago

                Unfortunately they still vote against us. So be throwing our money away. Because if that would work we already have the working mans Pac and be doing just that.

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                  1 year ago

                  No ones tried it yet, because the overwhelming bulk of society doesnt realize just how worthless they are to a politician, when you break the bribes down to a per-constituent cost.

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    1 year ago

    This was honestly one of the key things in my head that made the EU better than the US. That they protect their citizens and nature at least so far as to ban toxic chemicals. Neoliberal society really just drops the ball when things get tough.