The U.S. just hit its lowest score ever on an international corruption measure
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Lowest score so far...
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Drain the swamp! (Of all regulation standing in the way of Musk's capture)
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Right? This only tracked through 2024. It's about to get much worse.
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The last 3 weeks have already surpassed Russia, and every 3rd world "shithole" country.
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And that's saying something!
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If you take a peek at world history there are certainly some reasons for that correlation, and it's not a pretty story.
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Have no fear it will only get worse from here.
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Dang, Norway and Sweden are doing great things.
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Not really. Just look at eastern Europe and Russia.
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During the Trump/Musk presidency? What are the odds!?
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I'm not sure we should put much faith in these scores.
I see Canada looking pretty yellow here, but we just had a provincial government call an early election and send out $200 bribe cheques. Sure they don't call it a bribe, but I haven't gotten a paper cheque from the government in years (direct deposit, yay) and now I have a paper cheque and a voter card showing up in my mailbox just days apart. It's getting pretty obvious over here.
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What? With Trump running the country like a mafia protection racket? How could that be?
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it only covers data through 2024.
Start digging a hole.
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In the last decade or so, when people called USA a 3rd world country, it was mostly tongue in cheek.
Not anymore.
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Tbf, I was calling it 3rd world country with iPhones. Although I'm pretty sure the USA was one of the countries that invented the terms "1st/2nd/3rd world countries" as a way of dividing themselves from the brown poors
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Shit! So I guess we better do something about it?
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Also it's corruption perception, which is used as a proxy because actual corruption is basically impossible to measure, but it also makes the whole thing culture-dependent. Namibia is a good example: They consider themselves more corrupt than South Africa which they definitely aren't, they just have a lower tolerance for shenanigans.
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This score will plummet...
South Sudan better watch out! We're coming for their spot!
