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[–] blazera@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago

If money can make money that feedback loop will always break the system

[–] Dinodicchellathicc@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (12 children)

The world was a better place when politicians had to worry about get tarred and feathered, quartered, or thrown out of windows.

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[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

The idea of an uncorrupt government is naive, we would at least need direct democracy to prevent corrupt elitist groups from developing and taking advantage of the system

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[–] books@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (7 children)

.ml? I always thought it was for Marxist lenninist.

But that could have been tongue in cheek

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[–] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 20 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Keyword being uncorrupt.

Governments are run by people, at the end of the day

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