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[–] Athena5898@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

We gotta burn this shit to the ground

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

if only it were just california

[–] billgamesh@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Part of it is just california... How long until we get high speed rail anywhere else?

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

CA has functionally as much hsr as the rest of the country, don't give them too much credit

[–] billgamesh@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

fair enough

If this is a quote, who said it?

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Not in California, but If I suspect my local officials are accepting cash under the table, how would I go about exposing it?

Is there a way to trigger an IRS audit or something like that where the corruption gets dragged out into the open?

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

You live under a dictatorship of capital

So jot that down

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is there a way to trigger an IRS audit or something like that where the corruption gets dragged out into the open?

lmao no

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

This, unfortunately. Even when the local news reports on corruption (which is rare because they're also part of the problem), nothing happens. A mayor in a nearby town to where I am got exposed for taking kickbacks from businesses to get exempted from regulations.

That mayor was then reelected. Shouldn't even be allowed to run for office. Should be in jail. But the cops would rather terrorize the homeless. The burger-brained Americans affected by this think small business owners are the most important people in our society so the corruption is good, actually.

[–] SeducingCamel@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

I think this past year especially has shown us that exposing bad shit happening is no where near enough. They've realized they have zero consequences because we don't [redacted]

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago