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Re:The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City from Sc... by janalsncm on Friday August 25, 2023 @07:37PM (#37268397)
You can, but it requires a strong authoritarian hand. China used to be rife with corruption and organized crime, now corruption has been significantly reduced and organized crime is essentially nonexistent. Singapore is broadly considered one of the least corrupt countries on the planet. Mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking and people will simply go around your city.

You may think those punishments are unreasonably harsh, but then again you’re probably not a drug trafficker. And it’s not like the American punishments (decades in dangerous prisons) are much better.

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Re:The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City from Sc... by galaxyofdoom on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:52PM (#37268869)
Your comments about the state of organized crime and corruption in the PRC is outrageously absurd. If anything, the argument could be made the CCP itself is a corrupt criminal organization.
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Re:The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City from Sc... by orangepurple on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:49PM (#37269206)
Yes, but that is true of many countries at the highest levels.

Example:

New US government memos obtained by Just the News through a FOIA lawsuit reveal that the Obama Administration was still actively communicating with former Ukrainian Prosecutor Victor Shokin after Biden's December 2015 threat to withhold $1 billion in US aid unless then-President Petro Poroshenko fired him.

Senior State Department officials sent a conflicting message to Shokin before he was fired, inviting his staff to Washington for a January 2016 strategy session and sent him a personal note saying they were “impressed” with his office's work.

U.S. officials faced pressure from Burisma emissaries in the United States to make the corruption allegations go away and feared the energy firm had made two bribery payments in Ukraine as part of an effort to get cases settled.

A top U.S. official in Kyiv blamed Hunter Biden for undercutting U.S. anticorruption policy in Ukraine through his dealings with Burisma.

"10% for the big guy"

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Re:The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City from Sc... by imtringued on Saturday August 26, 2023 @06:40PM (#37277553)
You don't need to be a drug trafficker. They just need to plant evidence and off you go.
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