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by ronsor 587 days ago
Corporations have been making these kinds of statements for almost the past decade.
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worik 587 days ago
> Corporations have been making these kinds of statements for almost the past decade.

For ever...

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PittleyDunkin 587 days ago
Have corporations ever not played the "aggrieved victim" card?
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ronsor 587 days ago
The social/political appeal part is the new part. Companies have always released "we did nothing wrong" statements.
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ethagnawl 587 days ago
Yeah, the reflexive accusations of "witch hunts" and "crooked hit jobs" are a recent development. Their lineage is obvious and ... I guess you can't blame them because they (somehow) play with a significant percentage of the population.
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cj 587 days ago
Blaming the incident on “political retribution” (their words) implies that the US government is corrupt.

Such a weird thing to blame it on.

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jpadkins 587 days ago
why? Is the US gov immune from corruption?
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hulitu 582 days ago
> Such a weird thing to blame it on.

Yeah, should't be weird, should be obvious. (lobby, insider trading, etc)

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cpr 586 days ago
Are you joking?

The current US government is the most corrupt entity in the history of the world, if you multiple corruption times power.

And I love my country (USA), but just hate what the government has become over the past 60-80 years.

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hulitu 582 days ago
> The current US government is the most corrupt entity in the history of the world

Current ? "Mark Twain: 'There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress'"

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