@66087130 If this isn’t a screaming neon sign that western democracies have to pay attention to financial transparency and influence on politicians & government officials I don’t know what is.
We have let our own billionaires corrupt our system and make it vulnerable to foreign authoritarian government influence. 

 @d591b4ac @66087130 well. In Austria this is more apparent than anywhere else:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibiza_affair?wprov=sfla1 

 @66087130 @1fa29b3f the   U.S. is up there too these days 

 @d591b4ac @66087130 never underestimate the avant-gardist Austrian streak though... the only (?) country where fascists fought a civil war against... fascists. 

 @66087130 @1fa29b3f Ok fair point, though currently in the U.S. we have lunatics talking about using authoritarianism to save the country from authoritarianism so yeah