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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm actually very centrist; I don't want to eat the rich.

After all, I'm a vegan and think that anyone involved in the meat industry should be put in jail.

So, dead center. That's me.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

The idea of an uncorrupt government is naive, we would at least need direct democracy to prevent corrupt elitist groups from developing and taking advantage of the system

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

If money can make money that feedback loop will always break the system

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (12 children)

The world was a better place when politicians had to worry about get tarred and feathered, quartered, or thrown out of windows.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Keyword being uncorrupt.

Governments are run by people, at the end of the day

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