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How The US Legalized Corruption (indica.medium.com)

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[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 years ago (4 children)

Corruption has been legal since 1776; there's not a day in this country where things weren't corrupt, either morally or legally or what-have-you.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (2 children)

Way before that. It's been legal since the start of countries/empires as a concept.

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I'm talking about the history of the United States in particular.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

Then it's been legal since the Europeans set foot on the soil of what's now the US. Let's not kid ourselves in thinking the American revolution was about anti-tyranny. It was just about some other people wanting to be the tyrants in place of the then current tyrants.

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