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Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2026.1779810/full

#HackerNews #Corruption #SocialTrust #Democracies #Autocracies #PoliticalScience

Frontiers | The price of accountability: corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies

IntroductionWhile corruption exists in both democracies and autocracies, its social consequences may differ fundamentally across regime types. Democratic nor...

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Mar 14

“Social scientists have identified at least three major forces that collectively bind together successful #democracies: #socialcapital (extensive social networks with high levels of trust), #stronginstitutions, and shared #stories. #Socialmedia has weakened all three.”

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Mar 3

“It is in Israel’s interests to replace the states that challenge its domination over the #Palestinian people and occupation of Palestinian lands by #failedstates, rather than #democracies.”’

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Mar 1

#WhenTheTaleWagsTheDog

*👉️️️️️️️Who says #DonaldJTrump is unpredictable?👈️️️️️️️*

(12/n)

...have caught too few of these modern-day tyrants👈: #Raisi, #DaSilva, #Yoon + #Maduro.

However, much more serious than these individuals is the global degeneration of #democracies into #plutocracies and the almost enslaving trend of #Technofeudalism*..

* Technofeudalism:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111949124362576334
(#Thiel, #Musk, #Zuckerberg, #Bezos, and many others) in connection with #enshittification 5), and #shrinkflation 6).

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Feb 23

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

#GeoPol #EUpol

Thx for pointing this out.

I feel strongly that anyone with any interest in #EU countries should read that article:

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1916422/us-tech-giants-allying-with-european-far-right-to-strip-back-eu-rules

The same thing seems to be happening in almost(?) all Western #Democracies.

A century ago, it was the #RedScare that befell the world 🌍 with the #CommunistInternational. It was soon followed by the fascist "#BrownScare," aka "#NationalSocialism, " aka #Fascism.

A #FascistInternational is in the making.

US tech giants allying with European far-right to strip back EU rules

Amid rising EU-US tensions, a new report has accused Big Tech of courting far-right MEPs to weaken the EU's regulatory power on AI and data.

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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈Feb 17

That's probably not high enough bandwidth. Are there any #democracies with a satellite that would like the idea of fucking with #Musk and company?

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Mark Feb 16

“And also for reminding us that what has become a boring everyday reality for the West, such as #rights and #freedoms, constitutions and #democracies, #prosperity and predictability, which we stopped caring about and began to undermine and question, is something you are ready to fight for,” Tusk noted.

https://www.euronews.com/2026/02/15/we-must-not-stop-being-good-tusk-says-in-munich

#RussianAggression #USAggression #Europe #peace

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Tusk in Munich: "We have to be strong. We must not stop being good".

'Those who think that everything can be bought should also remember that, according to this philosophy, everyone can be sold,' Donald Tusk said at the Munich Security Conference.

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Joseph Lim

Feb 10

#Thailand’s corruption score slips
"🇹🇭 ranked fifth in #Asean, w #Singapore the highest & #Myanmar the lowest at 169th.. #Transparency #International said global ave score in 2025 dropped one point to 42 & 122 countries scored below 50, signalling #widespread #public #sector #corruption. “Only 5 countries now score above 80 (down fr 12 a decade ago), & recent slippage in high-scoring #democracies shows corruption risks can rise even where #institutions once looked secure"🤦‍♂️
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/3194353/thailands-corruption-score-slips

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🌈 KGB agent StyLovitsch the 🦄Feb 10

And there is an Army of scientists, that tries to transfigure, that the authoritarian submission of the poor wouldn't be caused by the free liberal 'western' #democracies. 🤮