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U.S. Intel report says key gulf ally meddled in American politics
Author : lob_it
Score : 13 points
Date : 2022-11-12 20:34 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.washingtonpost.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.washingtonpost.com)
| hunglee2 wrote:
| > It reveals the UAE's bid, spanning multiple U.S.
| administrations, to exploit the vulnerabilities in American
| governance, including its reliance on campaign contributions,
| susceptibility to powerful lobbying firms and lax enforcement of
| disclosure laws intended to guard against interference by foreign
| governments
|
| What can you say?
|
| A political system dominated by electioneering, where democratic
| success is determined by campaign financing, is guaranteed to
| attract this type of behaviour. Can't really even blame the UAE
| for doing this, no doubt everyone else with the resources is
| doing likewise. Got a problem with these outcomes? Plug the holes
| in the governance, reform the political system.
| goodSteveramos wrote:
| How? Soon some of their billionaires will figure out they can
| buy their way to becoming US citizens with HB-5 investor visas.
| Then their interference on behalf of the UAE becomes just
| another part of "our hallowed democracy"
| lob_it wrote:
| Everything points to domestic protocols in 1st world countries.
|
| I'm watching the Medibank hacking in Austrailia too, where
| abortions and other medical procedure data is being sold by the
| hackers.
|
| I've already laughed at divesting from tcp/ip. Nothing changes in
| the 1st world without tcp/ip as a domestic protocol :)
| livinginfear wrote:
| This is hardly news. Without an actual report to refer to, one
| can't help but wonder if this article is part of some kind of
| narrative building exercise. A few years ago the TV-watching
| public was introduced to this concept with all of the concern
| about so-called Russian hacking. All I could think was _if you
| think what our enemies do is bad, you should see what our allies
| do._
| lob_it wrote:
| Who needs enemies when you have friends like that /s
|
| Dumping tcp/ip does make online voting and other 21st century
| conveniences that require privacy a 1st world evolution :p
| uejfiweun wrote:
| America is the most powerful country in the world. Billions of
| people in over a hundred countries depend on the moves that
| America makes. You'd have to be a fool to think that this is so
| shocking. In fact, the shocking thing to me is that the US is
| singling out the UAE here, when it's pretty obvious that
| basically every country out there is meddling in the same exact
| way.
| stjohnswarts wrote:
| But this report is about the UAE, so why try to steer it away?
| we all know that UAE isn't the only one, there are the obvious
| ones like China and Russia and there have been reports on them,
| no reason to hold back and make UAE special and give it special
| treatment.
| stjohnswarts wrote:
| We do it to ourselves and it was magnified by citizens united
| which allows unlimited PAC spending by completely anonymous
| corporations. That's not free speech, that's pure corruption and
| opening up avenues for things like this to happen. This and
| basically legal bribery through lobbyist who can buy time with
| senators and reps.
| user3939382 wrote:
| I love this topic how x country "meddled" and "interfered" in our
| elections.
|
| Go read 1: the Princeton study proving our "democracy" is a sham
| since the votes of the people have no impact on policy, and 2:
| the longgg Wikipedia article detailing all the foreign coups
| we've been involved in.
|
| Let's start with overturning Citizens United and congressional
| term limits, then we can talk about "meddling" in our politics.
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