https://twitter.com/razhael/status/1352660945097658368
"This is so similar to arguments I’ve heard from French businessmen who privately acknowledge paying bribes to secure contracts in the Africa. Almost verbatim."
And then this lady decides to reply like this:
https://twitter.com/Lady_Bexy/status/1352670417618497536
"It's unfortunate, African governments are notorious, since forever, for corruption/bribery/kickbacks. I can only think of one African nation that has managed to stop that cycle of abuse of power."
Imagine reading this whole text, tweets accompanying it, and then tweeting this.
It's especially funny, because in my incredibly limited government affairs class I took in high school, we were emphatically told that lobbying is very different from bribery because the money doesn't directly go to politicians, it goes towards their campaign funds. As though them being 'donated' money they would be trying to raise otherwise was completely different from just wiring the funds to their private accounts.
I still sometimes think about the sheer stupidity needed to truly believe that.
This is the direct consequence of how west started their social progress earlier than the rest of the world. Since they were the first ones to do capitalism, they refined their technique of taking bribes before the others did, while in the middle-east the bribery is done in less elegant ways.
Corruption is when you go into a smokey back room and you're handing a big burlap bag with a big $ sign on it by a middle aged balding man in a suit smoking a cigar.
-7DeadlyFetishes
Hmm what’s that one country she can think of? Apartheid South Africa?
