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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by jen20 on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:49AM (#23871804)
> This current government isn't even pretending to do anything else.

The current government in the UK is uniquely poor compared to every UK government that has come before it. The situation there does not extend to "western nations" in general - just those run by incompetent/malignant (take your pick) populists.

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by AndrewBissell on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:04PM (#23875540)
The populists may have dispensed with the pretense of claiming not to be corrupt, but the corruption the parent describes was certainly there long before they came on the scene.
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