This is just defeatism. Not all politicians are corrupt. And even corrupt ones also have to respond to other kinds of pressures, if those are strong enough. Defeatism is what makes democracy die.
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salacious_coaster@feddit.online 3 days ago“Say it in a way politicians can hear” means bribes. You got politician bribe money sitting around? I don’t.
trajekolus@piefed.social 3 days ago
ripcord@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You and a bunch of other people together do. You’re not changing anything on your own.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That’s the type of mentality that keeps individuals from even attempting to build a large gathering of like-minded people to actually push for a change. Yeah, I’m not doing any kind of damage by myself, but that should not keep me from trying, and asking others to also try. Fuck that defeatist mindset.
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Get together with others and try, is my point. A current main issue is lack of attempts to coordinate efforts, and people talking like everything is an individual effort.
plyth@feddit.org 2 days ago
Would you have $100 for your future? The population could bring the bribes.
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It surprises me from time to time just how cheap some of these politicians sell out for. If I could get together with my neighbours all contributing $50 and buy a legislator or two, we could probably get funds for a stadium.
thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“The former Royal Bank of Scotland submitter who was offered sushi rolls in exchange for helping try to rig the Libor rate-setting process has been banned by the UK’s financial regulator.” ft.com/…/23868e36-0095-11e6-ac98-3c15a1aa2e62
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Without being able to read that article, I choose to interpret that quote as if a renown personal chef was on offer for a number of years to provide world class sushi rolls whenever the mood strikes.
mjr@infosec.pub 2 days ago
It’s worse than that. It was one batch of rolls, specifically yesterday’s rolls.
Read the Bloomberg Chats That Got a Former RBS Libor Trader Paul White Banned for Life - Business Insider – businessinsider.com/read-the-bloomberg-chats-that…
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 3 days ago
That's because that's actually just the down payment. The recurring comes from board seats and roles in name only later down the line.
boatswain@infosec.pub 3 days ago
Who wants a stadium, though? Those things are a blight.
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Oh I hadn’t meant an actual stadium, moreso stadium-level money for public works That said, there are stadiums that are defacto multipurpose community centres. Those aren’t half bad.