11 mo. ago • 98%

hey remember when the panama papers came out and revealed that all the rich people in the world are a part of enormous criminal conspiracy...?

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It isn't the case that nothing happened. That one journalist who was most closely involved in it all got blown up in a car bomb, and all the other interests clamped down and made it harder and mor lethal for other journalists to follow suit. Yay for Israeli and Argentinian zero day exploits, anyone can buy acccess to your phone!!

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- Do you have a link? Looks like Bastian Obermayer is still alive.
  
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  They're thinking of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist who uncovered the involvement of several Maltese politicians and who was then murdered with a car bomb a year later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia
  
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  You're right, I think I'd read stories about some other journalist being targeted and killed after the Panama Papers. It seems like the latest news is that the main journalist was not killed, but people are still looking into the specifics of what happened.
  
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In April 2019, the ICIJ and European newspapers reported that the global tally of such payments exceeded one billion USD, and is now at 1.2 billion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers

Looks like lots of payments happened as well as arrests!

The wheels of justice are slow, but they do move.

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- I just wish I was more sure of which direction they moved.
  
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  C'mon Chives, don't be coy. You know which direction.
  
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- The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they do turn.
  
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  They turn, for Just Us (this phrase is not uttered by or for you and me FYI)
  
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- I'm happy you have faith left in the system. Someone has to believe the system and unknown and mostly unelected and unaccountable beurocrats are coming to save us and not holding just enough people accountable to placate the masses. If not for this beautiful optimism, who or what would hold us back from taking both individual and collective action in replacing, reforming or ignoring said sytem after all?
  
  Also, may I recommend that anyone with their senses left intact stop using or trusting Wikipedia a decade or so ago?
  
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  I agree reform sounds great! I agree many systems can be improved. Lots of government officials could do with some more accountability.
  
  I personally still love wikipedia for this kind of high level analysis, but you are welcome to use whatever sources you like!
  
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At least Iceland ousted their government at the time after the revelation. Which is why it is up to the collective people to mobilise. A government is only in place so long as the population allows them to. "People get the government they deserve." After all, there are only thousands of politicians compared to the millions of ordinary citizens.

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Yeah and at least a couple of people involved in getting that information out got dedded.

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Did they think poor people enforce the rules?

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The monsters killed Daphne Caruana Galizia over it.

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A journalist got assassinated, so I wouldn't say that nothing happened.

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- This is even sadder than the original message 😢
  
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Well yeah, because they own and run everything.

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Amd then they to connect that shit with qanon. Most obvious propaganda ever.

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For a dramatization of the Panama Papers, watch the comedy-drama film The Laundromat streaming on Netflix.

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All the rich people in the world?

Yeah that sounds like a fair take

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- It's not that far off, really.
  
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  It is pretty far off if you actually stop and think about it for even two seconds instead of just blindly parroting something only because it agrees with your world view.
  
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- Thanks for this. Don't collectivise. Judge people on the content of their character, not the number of digits in their phony fiat ledger account.
  
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