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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Could someone ELI5 what this comic is about?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

In the US if you give a politician money in exchange for voting against a bill, it's illegal (it's called "quid-pro-quo" in lawyer terms)

But if you just donate money to the politician, his family, or his campaign, without requesting anything - and then he "coincidentally" happens to vote against the bill which you didn't want, it is perfectly legal.

Basically, many politicians are regularly doing something clearly unethical and corrupt in a technically "legal" way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago
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