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[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 217 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 163 points 2 days 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 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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)

[–] RandomlyGeneratedName@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Society needs to give billionaires the same treatment. They should feel safe nowhere.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 hours ago

Many countries elect them to high office and/or have nothing bit high praise for these parasites.

[–] Trill88@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago
[–] chunes@lemmy.world 76 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Same as 2008

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 107 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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?

[–] tripledip@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

I remember when DOGE cannibalized pepperidge farm as a company and deported all of the workers.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 11 points 2 days ago

The American populace is so house-broken.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Yes I do recall

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Land of the free....

[–] LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

Bruhhhhh so succinct

[–] arin@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Something did happen carbombed the journalist who reported on the corruption

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 points 2 days ago

and then the news dropped the stories after she was killed, they were waiting for a moment to stop talking about the papers. Now they arnt even talking about epstein files.

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And then they're was surprisingly (or, in hindsight, not so surprising) little reporting on the carbombed journalist

[–] cuerdo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i think it was ruled a suicide, no foul play

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago (6 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.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Any chance you have a link or transcript?

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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

[–] rmrf@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

+1 for a link to the video please

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[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 118 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 99 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is good, straight to the shit post office.

I Stole This For Free

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 8 points 2 days ago

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

[–] BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online 91 points 2 days 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 25 points 2 days ago

We need to be fucking shit up

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days 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 19 points 2 days 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.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 68 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Honestly, this is probably it. Look at who has bankrolled Trump's campaign and (nonexistent) presidential library.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

1 thing happened: a journalist got killed.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 days ago

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

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

What do you mean nothing happened. Meryl Streep made a movie about it. And THEN nothing happened.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] knowone@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

shakira, JACKIE chan was also in the paper, i wonder if this one of his motivations for trying to be part of the CCP.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 14 points 2 days 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.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

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

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days 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.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago

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

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The real message was - taxes are for suckers like us. Conclusion - don't be a sucker.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days 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.

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

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

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