[HN Gopher] Only action against corruption can solve the world's...
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       Only action against corruption can solve the world's biggest
       problems
        
       Author : 1st1
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-08-20 19:23 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | samvega_ wrote:
       | This is one of those things westerners say to make themselves
       | feel better: corruption is what the _foreign_ oligarch are
       | perpetrating. Considering that the Afghanistan war was used to
       | funnel 2 trillion dollars to the military industrial complex at
       | the cost of tens of thousands of civilian lives (not to speak of
       | the Iraq war), it 's pathetically chauvinistic to keep focussing
       | on the ghost of foreign corruption, of which one is served with
       | information with the greatest confidence from the absolutely most
       | biased source imaginable.
        
       | LatteLazy wrote:
       | The problem being that its normal every day people who are
       | corrupt: supporting wars and spewing CO2E and then crying its all
       | the fault of big oil...
        
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