Okay let’s break this down into the three unrelated parts:
Which genocides? Sounds to me like you know that the genocides you’re referring to actually have huge amounts of evidence, so you’re intentionally avoiding saying which specifically to avoid scrutiny.
Most genocides ever committed? The country has only existed since 1776, and humans have been committing genocide for a hell of a lot longer than that.
none that they actually discovered via authentic journalistic investigations
What the hell is that meant to mean? Who is “they”? None of what? What makes a journalist’s investigation “authentic”?
Nonono, you’ve passed the point of getting off that ride.
What’s happened here is you came in spouting absolute bullshit with nothing to back it up. Then you got called out for it by this “hipster”, and realising that, you’re trying to back out by pretending you never wanted to have this conversation in the first place.
Now you’re doing the internet equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and yelling LALALA to convince yourself you’re right, and that you’re not giving your government a free pass to commit genocide, it’s just those damn westerners trying to “make you have morals” and “form sentences that actually mean something”.
“you say capitalism but yet you live under capitalism, checkmate” doesn’t really work, because you don’t just get to choose the economic system you live in
Sure, capitalism has brought significant improvements to quality of life, but given that the systems that preceded it were largely feudalism and subsistence farming, that’s not really a high bar.
And it certainly doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t continue to develop economic and social systems that are even more equitable.
Okay but the bottom 5 are all capitalist countries.
Even if that wasn’t the case, just linking a corruption index doesn’t prove your original statement:
corruption is more common where there’s no opportunity to make money
Edit: since you’ve edited and added words, let me add:
I would even go as far as to say that your evidence in fact suggests rather the opposite trend: countries where wealth is more equitably distributed have lower rates of corruption
Are you aware that this is an article about how the poorly managed transition to capitalism allowed highly concentrated wealth and power, and thus corruption?
postcommunist Europe’s economic transition and institutional vacuum provided ideal opportunities for state capture. The most attractive jobs sought by corrupt officials were associated with the privatization process, institutions that regulated business and the customs bureau
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Google now (lemmy.zip)
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