[–] 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wow astroturfing is a new concept that has never happened before! Wow! All these historical examples of the exact same abuse of power was there all along but nobody noticed that it means that the systematic abuse can be prevented with legislation like other nations have! Who could have ever guessed that before when nobody knew not even the ones saying it over and over? This is ground breaking news that the term astroturfing actually existed and was ignored by the politicians that benefit from it! Wow

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago

    The first is the example of paying fines lower than the gains from performing illegal and heinous economical crimes such as not providing liquid assets as backing for short selling competitors into bankruptcy, poisoning water for generations and then making bank on the fallout, faking taxes, not paying workers and buying power plants and art that does not exist to use as collateral for even more crimes.

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