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Re:MKUltra by jasonvorhe on Thursday May 16, 2024 @08:17AM (#40377398)
Who cares? Do you honestly think things are much different in the US or Europe? It's just more corporate corruption that doesn't leak through society where you suddenly find yourself having to openly bribe a cop for a traffic violation. It's also not like anyone really cares about corruption or Germany would've long been penalized for not having implemented a EU ratified anti corruption law.

If anyone in the West actually cared about corruption we wouldn't be sending billions in cash and military equipment to Ukraine.

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Re:MKUltra by kolinko on Sunday May 19, 2024 @04:24AM (#40405276)
Yes, they are much different in Europe. We have a direct comparison in Poland - over the last 20-30 years the levels of corruption almost equalised with western countries and it’s like night and day.

And I’m speaking both about corporate and government corruption.

Have you been to Russia? Do you know people that live there? Did you speak to them about corruption? (asking about anecdotes, because stats don’t appeal to you I understand)

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