The U.S. just hit its lowest score ever on an international corruption measure
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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!
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Just wait until the conservatives get into power. Why else do you think that PeePee is looking at America and furiously taking how-to notes? The entire party is no different from the Republicans.
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Yeah, the fact that Russia is so red in this picture leads me to believe that something is off when it came to collecting the data. Russia doesn't exactly have freedom of speech, for instance.
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Fun fact: The terms first/second/third world counties had to do with what side you were on in WWII. First were the Allies, second Axis powers, and third were the neutral countries.
Since the Allies won WWII, they recovered faster and were pretty wealthy during the cold war era. No one really says "second world country" since the Axis powes got smashed. "Third world countries" were generally those too poor to have contributed much during or after the war, so "third world" got associated with a shitty place to live.
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"America Is the Only Country That Went from Barbarism to Decadence Without Civilization In Between"
and apparently goes the other way just as easily
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Reminder: this is with the score artificially inflated by not counting the legal corruption that's already baked into the US political system on purpose.
Probably wouldn't break 50 otherwise, BEFORE Trump.
