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Good points. However a big difference here is that this organized debauchery and perversions is weaponized to blackmail the most powerful countries in the world into supporting fascists in a small little country to do unspeakable things, that is also exporting that fascism to those home countries.

So the blackmail angle, to ultimately destroy the liberal democracies that these countries are built on, makes it a little different.

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minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Blackmail definitely isn’t unique to this situation. The US has specific provisions for conflicts of interest to safeguard against this kind of blackmail because they know it happens. MAGA simply ignore it all and was allowed to. Power finds a way and blackmail is as old as politics.

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- hector@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I am sure it’s not unique, do we have any more historical examples we can point to though? All I have is the borgia pope.
  
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  - minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Examples of blackmail in politics? Seriously?
    
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    hector@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah what you have a lot of them on the tip of your tongue? I can’t think of any that have been exposed as such, not off the top of my head.
    
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