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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by grecy on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:48PM (#19374657)
American society functions on bribery, and anyone that thinks otherwise simply has their eyes closed.

"Contributing" to a congressman is literally giving them money so they make decisions favorable to you. That is identical to me giving a policeman $50 to look the other way.

Unlimited campaign contributions is just newspeak for "legal bribery".

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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by SlumptonFidget on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @12:14AM (#19375667)
Your "legal bribery" is another's first amendment right to support someone else's candidacy. Or so I was once told.
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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by grecy on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @12:28AM (#19375738)
Of course. In America money is speech, another indicator that the entire society is built around the idea that money can get you what you want.
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