US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after group’s lawyer picked for top job

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guerrilla ◴[04 Apr 25 12:56 UTC] No.43581623[source]▶

The US has been corrupt for a long time with its revolving door but it's getting so blatant that frankly it's shocking. As a ruling class, you want to at least pretend to have some illusion of fairness. It's starting to looking some backwater Balkan nation or something.

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1. derbOac ◴[04 Apr 25 14:51 UTC] No.43583284[source]▶

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Not trying to be hostile but while everywhere has corruption, and the US definitely has a history of things to be shameful of, it's been nowhere near the scope of what we're seeing now, at least in recent history.

I see arguments about "this is the way it always has been" as essentially normalizing rampant authoritarian corruption. To me, it's taking projection and accepting it as fact without evidence.

Also, regardless, it seems two wrongs don't make a right, and the appropriate response is to reject it when it it exists.

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2. impossiblefork ◴[04 Apr 25 23:03 UTC] No.43588661[source]▶

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Not this kind of corruption. There are places where prosecutors have real independence.

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