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		seanhunter 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificia... You don’t seem to appreciate: they paid for the ballroom. They have a right to set policy. That’s how an oligarchy works

testing22321 11 days ago [–]

That’s how campaign contributions have worked for a long time. Now it’s just a touch more blatant.

The rest of the world has always called it corruption.

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