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Transparency advocates, however, warn that suspending enforcement could deal a significant blow to global anti-bribery efforts.
“This pause will work to the advantage of unscrupulous business actors around the world who until now feared U.S. criminal pursuits,” Transparency International said in a statement calling on other OECD Anti-Bribery Convention members to increase their enforcement following the U.S. shift in policy.
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JD Vance telling all of Europe:
“If Your Democracy Can Be Destroyed By A Few Hundred Thousand Dollars Of Digital Ads, It Wasn’t Very Strong To Begin With”
Goes well in line with this…
“If Your Democracy Can Be Destroyed By A Few Hundred Thousand Dollars Of Digital Ads, It Wasn’t Very Strong To Begin With”
Not to detract from his general shittiness, but to be fair he’s correct. How to make democracy more resilient to external bad actors is an open and very important question.
How to make democracy more resilient to external bad actors is an open and very important question.
Maybe our descendants will figure it out the next time they implement democracy.
That’s assuming they survive climate change
He is on the wrong side of this argument though, suggesting any involvement in the result of even a rigged election is undemocratic, and “soviet era like”.
“It looks more and more like old entrenched interest, hiding behind ugly, Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion,”
“Wait, we can ‘pause’ laws?”
Well, not legally. We need to make that matter again.
I’m still looking for ways to work toward that, short of violence.
Well, with Trump, the obvious answer is generally the correct one, so I’d venture to guess that he and those around him are taking bribes.
Because it’s easier to offer bribes? Duh
