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[โ€“] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)
  • we find here two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt means and for the most corrupt ends โ€“ and the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians, who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality exploit and plunder it. *

Frederick Engels 135 years ago

That shithole's banana republic politics is the longest running gag in history.