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[-] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wasn't talking about people in countries that have been bribed.

[-] machiabelly@hexbear.net 82 points 1 year ago

lmao this is so dumb. Every campaign promise in every democracy is a bribe then?

[-] Commiejones@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

No.... because they never fulfill their promises. geordi-yes

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 80 points 1 year ago

Maybe the US should try bribing people instead of bombing them

[-] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago

You live in the US, how are you not being bribed to think the way you do?

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

In fairness the statement is consistent. The US government does it's damndest to do nothing what so ever for the citizens of the us.

[-] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

What makes you so sure of that?

[-] NoGodsNoMasters@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

Maybe the US should start "bribing" with infrastructure projects then, I thought they were all about their soft power or whatever

[-] jack@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know the US is upstanding because it won't even bribe its own citizens by giving them anything that would improve their lives no matter how hard they vote. True democracy!

[-] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago
[-] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Most POC do not like China either, it's only a few countries.

[-] happyandhappy@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago

dirty browns bribed by the dirty yellows

[-] jack@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

China ~~helped other counties improve the material conditions of their people~~ bribed the dumb dark folk.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

"I only want a government that doesn't do good things for me!"

[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

The nefarious Chinese are tricking people into supporting them by checks notes improving their material conditions.

Thank God I live in America where I'll never have to worry about the government doing that.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

[laughs in IMF loans]

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