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He defines the grafter's core mentality not as need but as clever impunity: 'I'm smarter than you, and I'll get away with this.'
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Impunity
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "to the emperor all the time so okay so so let's think of like a most common example of graft okay which is the..."
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Jiang argues that elite sexual blackmail is not the primary motive for these operations because the participants also genuinely enjoy the abuse and seek power in order to practice cruelty without consequence.
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"to the emperor all the time so okay so so let's think of like a most common example of graft okay which is the..."
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"who was out to save the world um you know her her father was um Conrad Maxwell who was clearly I mean like like..."
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"like you know I mean like like like like like like that's that's that's that's that's who they are like like these are people..."
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"way around yeah it was just because they're that you know insane yeah yeah they it's it's I mean they're cruel I mean like..."
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"...the people and all those who have despoiled them in what impunity and those who reject liberty as a personal calamity and those who..."
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"...feet. I would gorge them with gold. I should grant them impunity for their crimes and they would be grateful. Right? If I'm a..."
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