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AuthorizedShitPoster t1_itnyw6h wrote

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My examples were just from a couple of days. Just google and you'll have enough to read for the rest of your life, literally. My favorites from before the election was one guy handing out tax payers money to his relatives made up company or 5/8 of the parties in parliment getting caught literally trying to circumvent corruption laws regarding anonymous donations. Don't tell me there's no corruption please...

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Sjatar t1_ito27ue wrote

I'm not telling you there is no corruption, I'm telling you "corrupt as fuck" is a overstatement.

As if the shared second lowest corrupted country in the world is "corrupt as fuck" you need to normalize your ranking system or accuse the index of being wrong.

I'd like to also clarify the anonymous donation example. You cannot donate to a party anonymously since 2018. These parties also never took the money as the anonymous donor was in fact a undercover reporter from a popular TV show "Kalla Fakta" which have successfully uncovered a large amount of corruption scandals in Sweden. Again not saying there is no corruption. I'm saying it's hard to get away with it and the current laws have strict transparency requirements.

It could be that Sweden has a low amount of corruption but most if not all are publicly documented. Other countries which seems to have the same amount might in fact just have a large dark figure of corruption which is not publicly documented.

I cannot find the first example you gave.

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AuthorizedShitPoster t1_ito3nkz wrote

Mohamed Nassir Abdullahi Ali (S) is the guy I was referring to in the first example.

I'm not saying I don't believe Sweden is less corrupt than most countries. I'm saying there is endless amounts of incidents that are in fact corruption. It doesn't really matter how severe each incident is when it happens constantly. We shouldn't accept Swedens corruption just because other countries are worse. It's like saying sexual abuse is fine because you didn't put your dick in someone.

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Sjatar t1_itofwqk wrote

It's def not saying that. It's like saying that even if crime is bad it's very inefficient to root it all out. In the greater picture the life of a average citizen has to be the goal, while corruption scandals are embarrassing for Sweden there is not a rampant increase of them. As happened in 2018, when donations have to be declared, prevention of loop holes and more transparancy is being legislated.

Sweden is doing good and much better then other countries according to independent reports. Not sure why you cannot take back the phrasing "corrupted as fuck".

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