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Discendo Vox posted:Yeah, I know Italy exists- it was the comparison point I was thinking of. If you're saying it's worse there, I believe you. The domestic politics of Japan with the whole one party hegemony and paired media system seemed worse. The Corruption Perceptions Index is not perfect. However, given the subject matter it really is better than you would think because people tend to have an idea when and how much they are going to need to bribe public officials going about their daily life. Japan ranks in the 70s on the CPI, among countries like Germany, while Italy is in the 40s among several countries in sub-saharan Africa.
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One of the partners in my last firm would sometimes, when a Russia would happen to block attempts at getting money from something state-affiliated via litigation, tell a European client that "this sucks balls, but what can you do, Russia is 130-something in the Corruption Perceptions Index, between [Sub-Saharan country X] and [South-East Asian country Z]" this was not wrong
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Look Sir Droids posted:Systems like this make me wonder why they don’t just do a monarchy. Bullshit democracies leave more room for corruption. Because that would mean tossing out the constitution Dougie Mac wrote for them, and culturally you do not challenge your boss.
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Oct 21, 2018 01:02
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Look Sir Droids posted:Systems like this make me wonder why they don’t just do a monarchy. Bullshit democracies leave more room for corruption. But they are a monarchy
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Oct 21, 2018 01:03
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Mr. Nice! posted:Because that would mean tossing out the constitution Dougie Mac wrote for them, and culturally you do not challenge your boss. Not Japan in particular, just that situation in general. A one party cabal with state run media doesn’t really count as a democracy. Why bother with the voting. And I mean legit monarchy, not figureheads.
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Oct 21, 2018 01:14
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America is basically a monarchy too. Don't @ me.
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Oct 21, 2018 14:31
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:America is basically a monarchy too. Don't @ me. @@@@
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Every time someone cites that  "well actually America is an oligarchy" article I die a little inside. That thing's a methods and concepts garbage pit.
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Oct 21, 2018 15:41
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:America is basically a monarchy too. Don't @ me. I think we would have been better off if we stayed with England. Change my mind.
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Look Sir Droids posted:I think we would have been better off if we stayed with England. Change my mind. The UK is currently busy shedding unnecessary jobs, economic growth and all remaining spare parts of itself because a bunch of idiots called a vote to score political points knowing that the vote would lose, then stampeded to campaign for the losing side. When that side accidentally won, the majority of the idiots decided to roll with it and continue to campaign on who can sabotage the economy harder. The opposition party would be extremely well placed to capitalize on this, but their leader thinks the outcome was a good idea and is doing everything possible to prevent a re-vote that would put him in power from happening. At the moment, 48% (but it's actually ~53-55% by now) of the country is represented by a party with ~5% of popular support whose even bigger idiot leader now has a job at Facebook apologizing for Facebook's taking lots of money from Russian trolls to make sure to push the vote in the first place.
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And both countries are far better off than France which desperately wants a do over so they can have le pen instead of macron
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mastershakeman posted:And both countries are far better off than France which desperately wants a do over so they can have le pen instead of macron Macron is the perfect example of the problem with milquetoast centrists. Seize the means of production or go the gently caress home.
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Isn't Le Pen a literal Nazi or am I confusing the name with someone else?
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Alexeythegreat posted:Isn't Le Pen a literal Nazi or am I confusing the name with someone else? Nope, they’re both Nazis.
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Alexeythegreat posted:Isn't Le Pen a literal Nazi or am I confusing the name with someone else? Yeah she is. But she says native french should have social benefits while macron is telling everyone they need to work more for less
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Adar posted:The UK is currently busy shedding unnecessary jobs, economic growth and all remaining spare parts of itself because a bunch of idiots called a vote to score political points knowing that the vote would lose, then stampeded to campaign for the losing side. When that side accidentally won, the majority of the idiots decided to roll with it and continue to campaign on who can sabotage the economy harder. The opposition party would be extremely well placed to capitalize on this, but So you're saying it's pretty much exactly as if we had stayed.
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Oct 21, 2018 22:45
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Having spent the last week in France I can confirm that everyone I talked to who brought up Macron disliked him, running the gamut from country farmers to wealthy retirees to May 68 leftists. However everyone also thought Le Pen was a shithead.
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Oct 21, 2018 22:59
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Melechon or bust, basically
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Having spent the last week in France I can confirm that everyone I talked to who brought up Macron disliked him, running the gamut from country farmers to wealthy retirees to May 68 leftists. So they’re French and hate everyone.
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Oct 22, 2018 01:03
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Just a reminder, I won a 2 million dollar jury trial last week.
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Oct 22, 2018 01:15
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If you win a 6 million dollar trial, can you petition to be nicknamed Steve Austin?
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SlyFrog posted:So they’re French and hate everyone. To paraphrase Sartre, Hell is other Frenchmen
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Oct 22, 2018 01:36
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Just a reminder, I won a 2 million dollar jury trial last week. Was 2 million the spread from the award to the final judgment? What was the final judgement?
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Just a reminder, I won a 2 million dollar jury trial last week. drat, that's one hefty speeding ticket.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Having spent the last week in France I can confirm that everyone I talked to who brought up Macron disliked him, running the gamut from country farmers to wealthy retirees to May 68 leftists. Hollande left office with like a 4% approval rating, and his predecessor is under investigation for corruption, so pretty sure France just elects than hates idiots Macron fits the bill perfectly
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Oct 22, 2018 04:19
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Nice piece of fish posted:Macron is the perfect example of the problem with milquetoast centrists. Seize the means of production or go the gently caress home. Macron is seizing the means of production ... for the oligarch class.
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Just a reminder, I won a 2 million dollar jury trial last week. drat, that elderly widow must have been loaded.
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sullat posted:drat, that's one hefty speeding ticket. Wrong Texas law goon
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How dare you
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blarzgh posted:How dare you Y'all look the same.
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Just a reminder, I won a 2 million dollar jury trial last week. Oh yeah? Well I just got a 17 year old girl acquitted from a spurious rent claim from a lovely landlord company, five thousand dollars cash money 
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My war story is the best, I just got invited to a casting for an ad video by virtue of speaking some Swedish and looking ~~--*nordic*--~~ (i.e. my head isn't shaven and my suits aren't tracksuits) Also it pisses me off that my dark blonde hair is classified as a type of redhead in this country
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Alexeythegreat posted:My war story is the best, I just got invited to a casting for an ad video by virtue of speaking some Swedish and looking ~~--*nordic*--~~ (i.e. my head isn't shaven and my suits aren't tracksuits) I think that's fair, you pretty much look exactly like every lawyer I know. Don't know about the redhead thing though, I think that might just be brown hair to be honest. Fake edit: Although, I just looked in the mirror and my hair honestly looks darker. My beard is blonder, maybe? And I've shaved off all my hair so maybe that doesn't count any more. So yeah I totally believe you as scandinavian. Maybe finnish.
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blarzgh posted:Was 2 million the spread from the award to the final judgment? What was the final judgement? Our initial number was 138k. They wanted 2.1m at hearing, got 2.1m on the award (my cases all have an admin phase then trial de novo in real court). At trial, we said 138k. They said 2.1m. Verdict: 138k. Jury said "we never even considered their number."
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Business this time by the way, no more war widows for me. I'm moving up in the world. Even got a corner office now.
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Nice piece of fish posted:Oh yeah? Well I just got a 17 year old girl acquitted from a spurious rent claim from a lovely landlord company, five thousand dollars cash money I want more details on this
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Business this time by the way, no more war widows for me. I'm moving up in the world. Even got a corner office now. You are office-ally (not officially) my hero! You did good. Hope you've got supreme health coverage and that your secretary is really hot and that he likes you  mastershakeman posted:I want more details on this Really? lovely slumlord company rents out borderline illegal student apartments for shared accommodation. Landlord failed to provide a safe environment for said girl and she vacated after a couple of weeks, landlord hosed up the contract, tried to go after girl for breach of contract through collections for six months of rent, I shut that down, then they tried to get a summary judgement from the county tenant/landlord tribunal to circumvent my procedural objections, I shut that down and girl is free and clear having to pay nothing and since she's a minor I collect my fee from the county legal aid fund.
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So I've got a friend staying from California. For fun, he brought over a sample ballot. He was weirded out by our how-to-votes, I was weirded out by the write-in slot. Do write-in candidates ever win? I'm guessing the answer is "very rarely" at most, in which case my follow-up is "why include the option, and if they decline the position, does it just go to the second highest candidate?"
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Whitlam posted:So I've got a friend staying from California. For fun, he brought over a sample ballot. He was weirded out by our how-to-votes, I was weirded out by the write-in slot. Do write-in candidates ever win? I'm guessing the answer is "very rarely" at most, in which case my follow-up is "why include the option, and if they decline the position, does it just go to the second highest candidate?" One of Alaska's current Senators won as a right-in candidate in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Alaska,_2010 Otherwise it's more common in small counties where you can convince 10 people at the polling place to write you in.
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Pook Good Mook posted:One of Alaska's current Senators won as a right-in candidate in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Alaska,_2010 Oh yeah, that makes sense. I can see how that also might happen more for those really weird minor things that probably only like five people actually care about, like school building inspection commissioner or whatever the gently caress. Cheers.
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