Courruption in Russia. Is it really corruption when it is the norm?

[Stinky The Clown]

It seems to me the country runs, such as it does, in ways that we might see as corrupt, indeed, as we define corrupt.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Of course it is. Please don't post time-wasting useless bogus theses. . . . nt

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Who are YOU to tell me what to post.

This is a discussion board, not YOUR personal playground.

And I completely disagree with your "of course it is".

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Who are YOU to say I told you? I did not. I asked you. I write carefully. I ask you to read carefull

[Stinky The Clown]

10. I read it as scolding

Why not just ignore me? Waaaaay less stressful. It will certainly improve my own DU experience.

Peace, dude.

[Doodley]

12. Yes, I read it that way too.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. You asked a question. I answered it. You didn't like the answer. Fine. . . . nt

[Stinky The Clown]

17. Actually, it was the tone, not the essence.

But hey, let's be friends. Wanna go to the next record pop?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. You've made excellent posts in the past that I've enjoyed and benefitted from. I anticipate more,

... which is why I clicked in the first place.

[Elessar Zappa]

3. Are you the board police?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. No. Are you the board police police?

OP just finished saying this is a discussion board. I answered the OP's question.

You couldn't be bothered.

[Stinky The Clown]

16. Actually, you said the OP was a waste of time

And to that point, consider: Posting to DU, and similar boards, left and right is largely a waste of time.

It's all kind of echo chamber entertainment.

Anyway, see ya around campus. Maybe at the malt shoppe?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. OP meaning the Original Post. The thesis. Not the writer. Sorry you think DU is entertainment

I learn lots and lots of stuff on DU and from reading other "boards". Like this: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216413169



I thought you were serious. I'm sorry I mistook your entertainment for a serious attempt at commentary.

My error.

[Mister Ed]

5. That's twice in five minutes.

Surely - surely! - we can find it in our hearts to show our fellow DUer's a little more kindness and forbearance.

It's a discussion board. There'll be nothing to discuss if people like the OP just keep their thoughts to themselves, or people like the OP of this thread just clam up and go and use Google:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216430717
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216430717#post2

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. I answered OP's questions on both threads. You can't be bothered on either. . . nt

[Mister Ed]

9. Yes, and answered them very rudely indeed. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. The thesis remains a time-consuming, needless unfounded thesis with no real arguments or evidence

Better? Says the same thing as "time-wasting, useless, bogus". Is "bogus" too strong a word for you?

[lapfog_1]

4. Imagine the entire planet run like Russia

Now imagine it was in the l1920s...

oh wait, somebody already did.

[Doodley]

11. Good question. Is it corruption when millions don't have healthcare in America and

Republican lawmakers are funded by insurance companies? No. It is just the way it is, and most people accept it or think it's great. So, is corruption in Russia really corruption. Not officially, and not to those who know no better because of the propaganda has withheld the truth.

[Caliman73]

13. Yes.

[former9thward]

20. No.

I have spent a couple months in Russia on two occasions. Of the 43 countries I have spent time in it would be in the bottom half of corrupt countries. Can you find corruption there? Of course. But having grown up in Chicago I did not find it particularly bad in Russia. I was not there doing multi million deals so maybe the corruption is worse at that level. But its worse everywhere at that level.

[radius777]

21. All countries are corrupt to varying degrees

including our own.

The difference is we have mechanisms to critique and oppose that corruption. We have rights of freedom of speech/assembly as well as free and fair elections. The Russian people have no such rights or mechanisms to at least keep the corruption in check.