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[–] 5 points 1 hour ago*

Do we still call it "pulling strings", when it's just the heads of the respective executive bodies directly talking to each other?

I feel like "pulling strings" implies that you open a little loophole in the bureaucratic weave by knowing whom to contact and what to say. This here is more like blunt force corrupt cooperation.

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