shakira, JACKIE chan was also in the paper, i wonder if this one of his motivations for trying to be part of the CCP.
We gave some of them direct or indirect positions in the US government I think.
We are all hamsters, running perpetually in cycles of production and consumption, inching ever closer towards demise.
Nothing ever happens guy wins again
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.
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.
Of course something happened. They started supporting the overthrow of democracy and the installation of fascist regimes in Western countries.
Honestly, this is probably it. Look at who has bankrolled Trump’s campaign and (nonexistent) presidential library.
Makes me wonder, how is Snowden doing and why did it take me so long to remember his name
Nah, they stole more and are more blatant about it. Something happened, just nothing good.
1 thing happened: a journalist got killed.
Her name was Daphne Caruana Galizia and she was murdered by a car bomb
They made virus to cover it up. Now they’re covering virus with AI.
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?
Yes I do recall
Bruhhhhh so succinct
I remember when DOGE cannibalized pepperidge farm as a company and deported all of the workers.
The American populace is so house-broken.
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 for a link to the video please
Any chance you have a link or transcript?
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
There is a fix but it will be bad
Heads or tails
Both.
I think about this more often than I like.
Well the rich people aren’t going to be the ones doing anything about it. Did any of you?
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.
