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In highschool I once ran for the position of student council treasurer more as a lark than anything else. I ran a campaign of complete honesty and assured my fellow students that I would lie and steal and basically wallow in corruption, however, there would always be money when they needed it and I would keep my skimming within reasonable limits.
I lost that election.
You didn’t lie about lying, that’s where you failed. You should’ve lied harder and actually held it for yourself, then you’d have been believable, smh.
The guy that won highschool president for my grade ran on “This position is a joke and you should vote for me as a protest candidate.”
His campaign consisted of bribing people to vote for him with donuts and making outlandish, joking claims like “eliminating homework and finals week.” He also told everyone he “100% wasn’t going to do anything expected or required of the position.”
When your electorate is rebellious highschoolers, thats just running an effective campaign
I think that plus racism is a proven winner for current potus.
I mean, the rich can still outbid you
Well, the Balkans are also a more direct democracy: these situations can happen anywhere, anytime, with no rich people in sight.
This is something I have always said about Louisiana in the 1990’s. DA asked for $100. I went to the ATM, paid the man, and the charges disappeared. Then moved to Texas and everything was by the book until my rich CEO offered to “call his buddy” the DA. After that, I didn’t have to worry about speeding tickets again.
PS: Yes, I had a lead foot. Still do, but not as severe.
Bribing US politicians is much cheaper than you think. They will sell out their country for just a few thousand
Oh can we bribe the mods?
The rich certainly can’t
Yes, but they don’t like taking bribes directly so you’ll have to use their proxy.
I am their proxy.
So direct all bribes to me.
Can’t find anything in the rules that forbids it…
I was literally saying this to a friend. The difference between a country with “rampant corruption” and a “modern western democracy” is the entry price for the bribes.
Shit entitled westerners say for $200
what does that even mean
Dumb fucks should try actually living in a state run on baksheesh before opening their spoiled mouths is what it means.
What’s a backsheesh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baksheesh
Think “offer this policeman a humble gift and he’ll overlook your crime” (which may or not may not be a real crime) when the police salaries are paid almost entirely in humble gifts.
If you set the bribe amount at a peppercorn (i.e. a trivial though non-zero amount), close loopholes allowing multiple bribes and strictly enforce it, you may be onto something.
Nice fucking try, Big Peppercorn
Every fuckin thread with one of these shameless Peppercorn reps
You don’t even need to bribe them, just trade favors is enough. They are very, very cheap.
I don’t have a link, but I remember an exposé a few years ago where some politician sold out their constituents for like 10k-100k in campaign contributions.
The response was along the lines of, ‘why don’t we just make a Kickstarter to buy them back’
Obviously this results in a bidding war we probably can’t win… And it’s, in theory, what PAC is supposed to be; but it might be useful in both defining a given politicians price, and in driving up the cost of corruption.
That feels very ‘free market’ to me.
edit: fixed autocorrect typo.
You can make that kind of money elsewhere. What senseless idiots.
No no no. We can bribe too, we just suck at it, we call it tips, and we only bribe after the fact and it has little to no bearing on our service rendered.
