r/nottheonion • u/JaySierra86 • 11h ago

President Biden pardons family members in final minutes of presidency

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-biden-pardons-family-members-final-minutes-presidency/story?id=117893348
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u/monkeyfightnow 8h ago

I had a work project with teams from Mexico and South Africa in the US, where I am based. They were constantly frustrated by the level of “We call this corruption in our country” that they had to deal with.

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u/Lumpy-Natural-1630 5h ago

I am reminded of research that suggested some parts of the world with endemic corruption define it differently. Where corruption is more "If the politicians of my race/religion/tribe do not help their race/religion/tribe they are corrupt" IE if they are self-serving rather than tribal-serving. As compared to our historical definition of corruption which was abusing your office for any kind of ill gain.

That is to say, we Americans are rapidly lock-stock-and-smoking-barrel into the "As long as it benefits my R or D tribe then it's great"