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How? Likely bribes. No way around it in parts of the world. Have to grease the wheels of diplomacy.

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The places that don't have bribery call it lobbying.

That way, the politicians can look down on other governments for the lack of sophistication in their corruption.

> The places that don't have bribery

This is an interesting sci-fi premise, but hard to imagine.

> places that don't have bribery call it lobbying

You're describing people without a civics education. Bribes (direct or promised after term), campaign contributions (direct and via PACs) and lobbying (direct and paid) are categorically distinct.

Reminder a certain political group are trying to make bribery legal in the U.S. by calling it a "tip."

> Reminder a certain political group are trying to make bribery legal in the U.S. by calling it a "tip"

Source? (My search keeps turning up Tip O'Neill.)

I suspect they are referring to the recent US Supreme Court decision.

Yes. Two issues, really. First, high wealth individuals could accept "tips" to get paid millions without any tax. And you could "tip" a Congressperson and it would not be called a bribe.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/sen-ted-cruzs-no-ta...

https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2024/07/us-sup...

Including the US, but here bribes are legal, it's called lobbying!

actually not comparable in price and scale. lobbying is cheap and limited, while bribes often become buisness ending very fast .

> lobbying is cheap

I heard Google and Microsoft spent bilions on EU lobby.

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