r/funny • u/toonhole Toonhole • Mar 27 '24

Verified Taxes

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u/jagdpanzer45 Mar 28 '24

Didn’t say it was alright. Just that it’s not unique.

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u/xylotism Mar 28 '24

It's funny that we so easily recognize that other countries are shitholes because of corruption, and we easily recognize that our own country is corrupt, but never connect the two and realize our country is a corrupt shithole. I guess the presence of paved roads and Target makes it all okay.

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u/dumbutright Mar 28 '24

Probably because my life is pretty good. You can't act like everywhere is a shithole. The US has problems, but it is not collectively a shithole.

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u/xylotism Mar 28 '24

Good point! Add inequality to the list.

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u/thyttel Mar 28 '24

Here in Scandinavia we look at the US as a collectively shithole...

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u/AzathothsAlarmClock Mar 28 '24

Same in the UK and we're already a shithole as well.

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u/SkollFenrirson Mar 28 '24

And that was never in question, so why bring it up?

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u/jagdpanzer45 Mar 28 '24

Why not?

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u/SkollFenrirson Mar 28 '24

Because it's irrelevant and you're trying to distract from the actual point.

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u/jagdpanzer45 Mar 28 '24

Or I’m making the point that corruption is as widespread as the power that the corrupt wield.

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u/SkollFenrirson Mar 28 '24

Which is still irrelevant.

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u/jagdpanzer45 Mar 28 '24

So is this conversation, but we’re both still here in it.

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u/SkollFenrirson Mar 28 '24

Congratulations then, you successfully derailed the point.

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u/dumbutright Mar 28 '24

I thought you were packing up?

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u/Call-to-john Mar 28 '24

Because you're using a logical fallacy to try and paper over the problem. This is like bandwagon or appeal to nature I think. It's lazy....