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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by antonvs on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:09AM (#49573252)
As a general rule, someone trying to use a simple single numerical measure as a skeleton key to understand politics across nations is an ideologue with an agenda.

As for the Genghis Khan comparison, I may have made an error. We may just be dealing with severe cognitive limitations here.

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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by 0xDEAFBEAD on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:51AM (#49573453)
If you think slavery is the key to explaining everything about the US, the burden of proof is on you to show that. Just because something gets discussed a lot does not prove that it's important. Donald Trump is himself the child of immigrants who immigrated to the US well after the end of slavery, and maintained a residence in a state (New York) which opposed slavery. The relevance of slavery to his presidency is at best unclear.
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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by anon84873628 on Saturday September 05, 2026 @10:22AM (#49576773)
No one even mentioned the Trump administration. The major connection is through the Supreme Court.
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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by antonvs on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @07:50PM (#49618803)
The burden is on you to have studied the subject in even the slightest detail before you mouth off with your ridiculous hot takes. There are plenty of discussions of this available.

Do you need me to spoonfeed you about where you can find them? Or do you not actually have the intellectual capacity to be able to use a search engine, or a chatbot?

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