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[–] 224 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 174 points 1 year ago (4 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

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (2 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)

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  • [–] 124 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 112 points 1 year 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?

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    [–] 94 points 1 year ago (7 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.

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    [–] 92 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    1 thing happened: a journalist got killed.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Something did happen carbombed the journalist who reported on the corruption

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

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

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    [–] 5 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Nothing ever happens guy wins again

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The magic the gathering class of people are apathetic

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Not a good damn thing

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I think about this more often than I like.

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