Why do people say political lobbying is a major problem in the US and is nothing but bribery? (Congress, illegal?

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I really don't care which party is lying, robbing and cheating. I want it all to stop, and a lie detector could do just that. It could also save a lot of time and money currently being wasted on trials and investigations. And the best thing is it would be fair to everybody and save us a shitload of money. Of course crooked politicians would hate it so I wouldn't ever expect this to become reality. Back to MAGA

A lie detector has little influence on stuff that the Supreme Court doesn't deem a crime.

 

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As for Russia. The EU is spending a serious amount of money trying to "fix" Russia. By virtue of booting them out of Ukraine. Something that quite a few people in the MAGA crowd have a problem with.

You're goddamned right I have a problem with it. It is YOUR fucking fault that Russia is being asswipes.

When the USSR fell apart, where was Western Europe? They turned their collective noses up at the Russians. They wouldn't let them join in Their Reindeer Games. They barely even helped when the Russian People about starved to death.

WE, The USA, had to bail them out. As usual. Then we told Europe, "Hey, it's your backyard, you take care of it." And the euro-weenies did -- Nothing. You were too busy building your HSR systems, providing free health care, giving out 2 years of Maternity and even PATERNITY leave, unlimited unemployment benefits......

So a Strong-Man emerged. Shock.

That guy's name was Putin, And he's there because your idiot, selfish, scumbag leaders wouldn'y do anything to help Russia when they needed it.

As to Ukraine, as an individual Country I believe we, The USA, on another Continent entirely, supply the most aid by far.

Don't try to bullshit me. Save it for your Wine and Cheese crowd.

So when Russia comes knocking at your door, call somebody who gives a fuck

 

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You're goddamned right I have a problem with it. It is YOUR fucking fault that Russia is being asswipes.

When the USSR fell apart, where was Western Europe? They turned their collective noses up at the Russians. They wouldn't let them join in Their Reindeer Games. They barely even helped when the Russian People about starved to death.

WE, The USA, had to bail them out. As usual. Then we told Europe, "Hey, it's your backyard, you take care of it." And the euro-weenies did -- Nothing. You were too busy building your HSR systems, providing free health care, giving out 2 years of Maternity and even PATERNITY leave, unlimited unemployment benefits......

So a Strong-Man emerged. Shock.

That guy's name was Putin, And he's there because your idiot, selfish, scumbag leaders wouldn'y do anything to help Russia when they needed it.

As to Ukraine, as an individual Country I believe we, The USA, on another Continent entirely, supply the most aid by far.

Don't try to bullshit me. Save it for your Wine and Cheese crowd.

So when Russia comes knocking at your door, call somebody who gives a fuck

Our social security outdates Russia's collapse by multiple decades. We maintained it even when there was a mandatory draft and military expenditure several orders of magnitude bigger than it is today.

So please get of this. Europe can live how they live because of the US BS.

I'll give a little history lesson for the criminally uninformed.

Yes the US helped out Europe tremendously after WW2 via the Marshall plan. It was however not done out of some altruistic motive. It was done because of the economic reality that a devastated Western Europe would not be able to withstand the Soviets.

So the US rebuild Europe, in exchange for being the dominant partner militarily, economically and culturally. A partnership that has lasted for seventy years to EVERYBODY'S satisfaction.

Europe however had a different philosophy in terms of how they arranged their post-war society. Favoring a mix of Socialistic and Capitalistic policy preferences. Strong unions which are capable of countering corporate greed. Resulting in regulations that favors the working class. And high taxes ensuring a pretty high base standard of living.

In fact so did the US. Until Ronald Reagan,
convinced you idiots that corporations when left to their own devices would choose to not maximize their profits out of a sense of civic duty. Something that changed in a few decades in people like you being unhappy about the state off your country but not being able to identify why the middle class disappeared, and an income gap rivaling the robber baron era, besides that is, blaming foreigners for it.