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All politicians are crooks. Left or right, doesn't matter. They are both accepting bribery under "lobbying".


This seems like a perilous line of thinking: If all politicians are crooks, then we should get rid of politicians. Without politicians, we either have anarchy or dictatorship. Politicians don't seem so bad at that point.


"All politicians are crooks" is often used as a way to discourage the public from participating in any sort of politics. Outside of this threads context – don't take it that seriously.


So when EFF goes and talks to their Senator to ask (“lobby”) for privacy laws you call that “bribery”?




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