Of course something happened. They started supporting the overthrow of democracy and the installation of fascist regimes in Western countries.
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One of the funny things about the Panama Papers was how few Americans were in it. This is not a point in America's favor, but an illustration of how loose and flimsy American tax law is in practice. You don't need these elaborate shell companies to avoid taxation, because tax avoidance for folks in the mega-million brackets is baked into the system.
Obama did a response to the film The Laundromat (which is excellent), where he said, yes this is one of the keystone problems we have, but there is not going to be a fix for it, because the people that could fix it are benefitting from it. I've never seen him quite that defeated before.
1 thing happened: a journalist got killed.
Didn't the person who leaked that get blown up by a car bomb? That's not nothing.
Not quite. So far as I'm aware the actual leaker remains anonymous, and the journalist they originally gave the documents to is okay. However, two journalists who were involved in picking apart the actual content of the papers and reporting on it were murdered, Daphne Caruana Galizia and Ján Kuciak. Galizia was the one who was killed with a car bomb
Fucked
It caused mass protests in Iceland and the prime minister resigned over it.
At least Iceland cared?
Same as 2008
Makes me wonder, how is Snowden doing and why did it take me so long to remember his name
You see, you can't prosecute them, otherwise they won't invest or something.
They'll go hoard all their wealth and not circulate it (something that a capitalist economy needs to "work") in another country
Not "nothing" happened. Daphne Galizia, a journalist who worked on the expose, was assassinated with a car bomb. Last year, all former employees of Mossak Fonseca (the Panamanian legal firm that helped create the tax dodge structures for the offending corps) were acquitted.
We need to be fucking shit up
Remember the Epstein files?
The insurrection?
Trump's felonies?
Trump's rapes?
As soon as the government opens, we need to blast about the Epstein files.
We've also known for decades rich people like to gather at the pedophile island. There is no such thing as a good billionaire.
There were people prosecuted for this I believe, but it only happened in countries where the law actually exists so it wasn't the US, UK, or anything like that.
We are all hamsters, running perpetually in cycles of production and consumption, inching ever closer towards demise.
We gave some of them direct or indirect positions in the US government I think.
They do it in Nevis now. They set up companies there, the government refuses to reveal who owns which company, and the filthy rich hide and launder billions through those companies.
Not a good damn thing
The magic the gathering class of people are apathetic
Nothing ever happens guy wins again