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The problem is that the elaborate credit systems that they have created to underwrite infrastructure or property development – so-called “local-government financing vehicles” – undermine more sustainable borrowing and lending, while weakening state-owned banks’ balance sheets.

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But they're also trying to undermine everything in the game.

Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country, they can compromise our security, they can undermine democracy, they can cause the deaths of those that defend us.

They use political violence to intimidate, physical violence to terrorize and mental or emotional violence to undermine.

And there's this Flaubert quote that I love: "I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it."

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