@ChristiJunior@Publius@redmaple that, and also more mundane forms of corruption like buying a whole new fleet of police cars because the new engines allegedly produce a slight bit less emissions but in reality it's just using the national money printer to wet a lot of beaks both in the government and private sector.
@xianc78@redmaple@ChristiJunior@Publius performative acts that inconvenience the little people for the sake of optics are easy, but the actually hard things are hard so the easier thing to do there is say that the bad thing that is happening isn't actually happening and then punishing anyone who points out that it is indeed happening despite what the official line has touted.