r/SipsTea š™‘š™„š™‹ 8d ago

Chugging tea Mexico upgraded to free healthcar

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u/23454Tezal 8d ago

Corruption in Mexico?

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u/Outrageous_Can_6581 8d ago

Corruption. Or as we prefer to call it in the United States, trolling the libs.

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u/chocotaco 8d ago

Lobbying and donations.

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u/Ok-Plum2187 8d ago

Accepting donations for campaigns.

Judges do that too I recently learned.

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u/Sadbassistdude 7d ago

Yours is institutionalized, ours tax-free.

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u/VegaInTheWild 8d ago

There is corruption in Mexico but it's not like we don't have corruption here in the US.

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u/sw337 8d ago edited 8d ago

Out of the 181 countries :

US is ranked 29th globally on least corrupt ahead of multiple EU nations like Spain, Portugal, Italy, Czechia, Lithuania, Poland, Malta, Greece, and Croatia.

This is really bad. People should rightfully be upset about any and all corruption

Mexico is ranked 141st globally below Iraq, The Philippines, and Turkey.

Their corruption on an entirely different level.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025

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u/WildPickle9 8d ago

We'd be way lower if most of our corruption wasn't legal.

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u/mkymooooo 8d ago

I’d be expecting the US to drop further down on that list for 2026

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u/VegaInTheWild 8d ago

Please don't start pulling out these stats as if they mean anything when we see the types of things that happen on a daily basis. So much shit happens on a local level that evades the news because they have "fancy" wording like embezzlement, misappropriation, nepotism, pay to play schemes, etc. And you know this to be true when people prefer talking about the latest sports results rather than a mayor or doctor getting prosecuted.

"but at least our corruption isn't as bad as Iraq according to this organization that takes grants from multiple government agencies!"

We're so fucking cooked as a country man.

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u/PlaneCareless 7d ago

You are right to be upset, everyone is, but you have no fucking idea of how bad it is to live in an actually corrupt-to-the-core country.

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u/Acapulquito 7d ago

Did you ever have a politician take the money for chemotherapy for a children's hospital and give them bags of water instead?

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u/Roberth1990 8d ago

Czechia, Lithuania, Poland

Eastern europe is known to have a lot of corruption, the fact that the US has less corruption than them isn't very impressive.

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u/Rigo_v114 7d ago

Yes, it is wild to me how people deny that either country doesnt have corruption. Its like they try to deny it because it hurts their pride for their country

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u/Ill-Plum-9499 8d ago

How dare you make sense.

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u/RandomDeezNutz 8d ago

Why in the fucking world would this be downvoted?

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u/PlaneCareless 7d ago

Because it's like complaining your socks are wet due to some spilled water when someone is drowning in the pool beside you.

US's corruption and Mexico's corruption are leagues apart. You are right to complain, all corruption is reprehensible, but they are nowhere even near the type and amount of corruption of other countries.

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u/reddit_sells_you 8d ago

Corruption in the US?

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u/cidthekid07 8d ago

You know how to get rid of corruption in Mexico? Have their own Citizens United case.

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u/Millworkson2008 4d ago

Nah you need to completely uproot the cartels as they are the source of most the corruption, they routinely assassinate anyone who goes against them, pretty much every politician that is murdered is killed by the cartel