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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 hours ago

Remember when it turned out that on top of this the USA was also being run by a cabal of pedophile nazis and then they got voted back in anyway and then the richest man in the world publicly did a nazi salute on stage and then openly went around every government department installing his own servers to do fuck knows what and then the president of the USA sent the military into American cities and talked about cancelling elections and still nothing happened? And also when the president staged an attempted coup, picked up 36 felonies and buried his ex wife under his golf course? And also took a bunch of highly classified documents home and kept them next to his toilet and then his son in law mysteriously got two billion dollars from the Saudi government for no apparent reason?

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 50 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] rmrf@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

+1 for a link to the video please

[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Any chance you have a link or transcript?

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I found a related clip, not precisely what the commenter mentioned but it's the same mold - Obama talking about the Panama fraud itself, rather than the movie

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 32 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

1 thing happened: a journalist got killed.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 hours ago

Her name was Daphne Caruana Galizia and she was murdered by a car bomb

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 43 points 4 hours ago

Of course something happened. They started supporting the overthrow of democracy and the installation of fascist regimes in Western countries.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 40 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago

Excellent point. The miles long US tax code leaks taxation on the wealthy like a sieve, by design, such that many of our billionaires pay less than average working class citizens. It’s grotesque, and even now they’re pushing to strip healthcare from millions to pay even less.

I have heard some dems a/b testing recently on ideas of taxing wealth not work. I really like that approach in theory, hope it sticks and we can finally start narrowing the insane and utterly untenable wealth gap.

[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 165 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Didn't the person who leaked that get blown up by a car bomb? That's not nothing.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 112 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] ultrafastsloth@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago

Ján Kuciak, murdered together with his wife in their house, in their bed while sleeping. Meanwhile our current (Slovak) government party at that time campaigned and promised to “catch their killer and solve the murder”. You can guess whether they delivered on that promise( spoiler: they didn’t)

[–] Trill88@lemmy.world 21 points 5 hours ago
[–] chunes@lemmy.world 64 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It caused mass protests in Iceland and the prime minister resigned over it.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 23 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago

Same as 2008

[–] derry@midwest.social 2 points 2 hours ago

I think about this more often than I like.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Not literally nothing. A good few people were arrested and over a billion dollars was recovered as a result. Germany issued an arrest warrant, but Panama doesn't have an extradition treaty with Germany, and refused to hand them over because the owners of the law firm that facilitated the tax evasion held Panamanian passports. There was however a few US Citizens who were indicted on tax fraud charges and thrown in prison for it.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 hours ago

Makes me wonder, how is Snowden doing and why did it take me so long to remember his name

[–] BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online 78 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 19 points 6 hours ago

We need to be fucking shit up

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Remember the Epstein files?
The insurrection?
Trump's felonies?
Trump's rapes?

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 80 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

This is good, straight to the shit post office.

I Stole This For Free

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 9 points 5 hours ago

As soon as the government opens, we need to blast about the Epstein files.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You see, you can't prosecute them, otherwise they won't invest or something.

[–] knowone@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 hours ago

They'll go hoard all their wealth and not circulate it (something that a capitalist economy needs to "work") in another country

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 32 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

We've also known for decades rich people like to gather at the pedophile island. There is no such thing as a good billionaire.

a dead one is the best kind

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Nah, they stole more and are more blatant about it. Something happened, just nothing good.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

They made virus to cover it up. Now they're covering virus with AI.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 13 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

We are all hamsters, running perpetually in cycles of production and consumption, inching ever closer towards demise.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

mitochondria, who do all the hard work

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago

We gave some of them direct or indirect positions in the US government I think.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] Trill88@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Not a good damn thing

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

The magic the gathering class of people are apathetic

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 3 points 6 hours ago

Nothing ever happens guy wins again