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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

A close friend of mine used to work for the EPA until last year. He described it as an organization that formalizes bribes for exceptions, a simple cost of doing business.

But of course, billionaires are so greedy that that wasn’t good enough and they don’t want to pay the bribes anymore.