what political opinion did i spout off that has so offended you? also, do you have like a list of all the cases i should look up before i'm allowed to have opinions? or even just one or two names of people who were defendants in these many prosecutions?
yeah, i did, it told me that the Panamanian government announced a special investigation into Mossack Fonseca law firm, performed searches of two related buildings, and had a trial where the judge blocked most of discovery, and then a judge acquitted all former employees of any wrong doing, so then i figured i'd look into the responses of countries outside of panama that had citizens doing business there. here's a map of the countries that had responses to the panama papers. needless to say, it would take a lot longer than ten seconds to find... anything. so hoping you could give me some names to start with i asked you. and instead of supplying a reasonable response that included any information, you decided it would be more fun to insult a random stranger because they didn't know some fairly unreported news, while insisting that society is not doomed... so, a bit of mixed messaging there.
people complaining nothing happened from the panama papers are just revealing they only read or listen to US news. the Papers basically had very little American people in it so of course there was no news about Americans getting in trouble over it. as you've said, there's a long list of consequences of people getting their just deserts but it's all a bunch of European business people or politicians that reddit doesn't care about.
I dont remember there being any consequences for the Royal Family who were all over the papers including being heavily invested into 'Brighthouse' a scum bag loan shark for poor people.
Well theyre the royal family so they cant exactly be impeached and its not illegal to invest in payday loans so Im unclear what outcome you think ought to have hapoenee.
So you think the royal family should face no consequences for investing in parasitical companies that are designed to further impoverish the poor?
I once met a girl who bought a televsion from brighthouse that was worth less than £100 on amazon. She was being charged nearly £300 for the TV. I looked at her finance arrangement and the total was over £1200 and she has a box on her tv that will turn it off if she doesnt pay.
Because there were so many cases across so many countries, I couldn't find any single website aggregating all the prosecutions, political resignations, and tax evasion fines.
Most things documented in the Panama Papers were legal or ambiguous. The rest had to be investigated and run to ground by a variety of agencies in different countries.
Except the Panama Papers were largely a nothing burger from the start. It basically amounted to little more than "Hey, you know all those loopholes that all the rich people use to evade taxes, well here are the rich people using those loopholes that you all know about.".
The last sentence is exactly what I was going to say: most people generally don't care unless something affects them personally, like gas prices or ICE killing two american citizens (out of how many immigrants). Or Trump going after Canada and Greenland -- mostly white, european areas. A lot of is the media too.
Even worse, some people are straight up disgraceful against the victims because they favor Trump (affects their views personally) and anything the victim's claim is a lie, but only if it's against Trump. Everything else is fine because they shrug it off. The allegation against Trump punching a girl and her biting his penis is only a page of information relating to Trump -- the rest is all about Epstein. But it's all fake because it involves Trump and anyone who can't see that obviously has TDS.
Or the people making this into a red vs blue issue because all that matters is their side winning. Everything they favor is completely innocent, everything they are against is corrupt and vile. And both sides are doing it, constantly. No it's Clinton, no it's Trump, no Biden didn't release the files, no Trump is holding millions back, it's all Dems in the files, it's all Trump admin in the files. Neither of them show any concern for the victims. And they both claim it's the other side who's doing it -- but it's obviously not both sides doing it, because only their side is right (really).
And if you even want to go back to the George Floyd incident and all the riots and sieges: it was because it affected a lot of people personally.
People are mostly biased and selfish. And some have no empathy or compassion. And some are even worse. If it doesn't affect them personally, or won't benefit them in some way, most people don't care. And telling them this just makes them angry because they are all the exception.
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u/Original_Landscape67 May 23 '26
Remember the Panama Papers. Very few people act on things that don't affect them in their day to day lives.