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Greenwater Services will get the job done. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I think the media latches onto simple corruption cases like this because they’re easy for people to grasp.

Or because they don't matter. It's millions while the war is costing billions.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    Well that's a bit of a false equivalency. Yes the war is costing billions in tax payer money and innocent lives, which is bad, but that isn't corruption. That's just a warmongering administration getting into and losing unnecessary wars.

    All these random, relatively small, examples of corruption are sometimes uses of taxpayer money like in this case, but that isn't the problem - if the pool needed to be resurfaced then that is a legitimate government expense. It wasn't necessary, but that'd just be waste if we stopped there. The actual problem is the corruption - the facilitation of funding to the Trump campaign and Trump family, illegally, through pay for play schemes.

    Both things matter, and obviously the war matters more as it has cost innocent lives, they are not the same type of thing though.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Right. However if newspapers would start investigating the war expenses, don't you think they would find billions wasted in corruption?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    I think they are investigating that though, right? It's just a different sort of story, requiring more reporting investment and more specialized reporters. I've seen lots of reporting on the war over the past months (humanitarian, economic, military, etc. etc.)

    Obviously though most of that reporting is institutionalist, serves western interests, etc. I just don't expect different from the corporate press

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    so like, remember how every time the military gets audited they fail the audit? if a company in the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) fails their audit, they get kicked out of the MIC and can't do business with the gubmint but the military itself misplaces billions of dollars every year (mostly bribes being paid and not being properly accounted for. just write them down, military dudes) and whoopsie poopsie, failed audit whatcha gonna do we got nukes.

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