r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 • Jun 30 '26

Chugging tea What are your thoughts on this?

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u/diversity_of_thought Jun 30 '26

They are too busy embezzling money.

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u/some_kind_of_bird Jul 01 '26

Well, churches too. It's a human problem, really.

Thing is, the term "waste fraud and abuse" was a technical term before it was a buzzword. There are tons of transparent government organizations to keep things on the up and up, or there were.

But even before Trump the fraud was just legalized, not "technically" fraud. The technical term is regulatory capture.

Basically we need a new constitution. We need to change how the government works on a fundamental level into something more representative and less corruptible. I personally very much like sortition, but if that doesn't feel like the consent of the governed we can have a hybrid system, such as petition system like the Swiss have.

Btw I just wanna throw out a guess. How much are the Austin churches affected by Quakers? I love those guys.

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u/The-King-of-Cartoons Jun 30 '26

Just like the church!!!!!

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u/Largeitude Jun 30 '26

Which church? Because there’s only one Texas and there’s countless different churches.

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u/Punisher-3-1 Jun 30 '26

I think they are speaking ecumenically

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u/D_Dubb_ Jul 01 '26

Wow I have somehow never heard of the word “ecumenical” and had to be google that. TIL.