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it would be interesting if the result of this was that everyone stopped donating to any politician because they don't wanna end up doxxed some kind of poetic Justice
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Replying to @eigenrobot
isn’t a political donation a public statement of agreement with a politician did that change?
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Replying to @swimming_blerd
Yes and we need to make any agreement with politicians Verboten
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Replying to @eigenrobot @swimming_blerd
But also it's not it's mostly buying influence for people who know what they're doing
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Replying to @eigenrobot
"i want influence on public matters, but in a private way" congratulations_youplayedyourself.gif
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Replying to @swimming_blerd
it used to be how things were done it was probably net neutral from a policy side but it was very good for political stability
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Replying to @eigenrobot
how so? it seems to me like a closed process would inspire more speculation and mistrust
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Replying to @swimming_blerd
some amount of bribery of public officials is optimal as an offset to democratic systems which operate as an inefficient regulatory and allocative system
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depends on how abstract you're willing to be
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Replying to @swimming_blerd
bribery actually is much better than extortion https://www.jstor.org/stable/40649276?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents …
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