Remember, you can’t transfer modest sums of money without intense scrutiny — coz tErRoRiSM — but corporations can funnel billions of dollars through fake corporations, run by fake &/or dead people, registered at locations that have never existed, solely to commit tax evasion — a crime you would spend decades in prison for, if you did it at 1/1000th the scale.
This is from the same establishment that argues against your access to encryption — coz pEdOs and tErRoRiSM — but Epstein didn’t hill himself, and 99.99% of his pedo establishment accomplices were let off scott-free.
And people argue against overthrowing their governments in favour of upholding this.
I mean yeah, the French Revolution had 2.5 million combatant casualties in addition to 1 million civilian casualties, which was similar in population deaths relative to World War One for France.
If estimates are correct, the French population was around 28 million at the eve of the French Revolution. 3.5 million deaths is 12.5 percent of the population of the country at that time.
So if violent revolution has any historical accuracy, the population of 330 million in the US today would mean that more than the entire population of France during the French Revolution would die (41 million people)
I’m not arguing that revolution isn’t the answer, but a casual “overthrow the government” is a significant loss of human life to achieve said goals.
Had the ancien régime been allowed to remain in power, it’s likely it would have killed far more people.
you’re almost certainly right, but if you’re wondering why people are hesitant to initiate a revolution 3.5 million deaths is a pretty good explanation
I didn’t say that wasn’t that case, just that to get people to agree to something that drastic normally requires more significant impact on their day to day lives. By convincing many of the current population they are “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” the upper class have done very well at ensuring that many are “just comfortable enough” to do very little while they are moved into a system built to capitalize on their labor and keep them under control
If corps can do this and its legal, I should be able to claim my dog as a dependent on my taxes.
Well, no, because you see, you’re not filthy rich, so you actually have to abide by the law.
I often wonder if it ever pisses Martha Stewart off that she did time for a crime that nowadays, is just seemingly a part of doing business for the super-rich. (as well as much much worse)
The world has gotten so much more fucked up since then. A little insider trading to save a few measly millions is NOTHING compared to what blatantly do in the open nowadays.
Wasn’t she also jailed in the US? I never understood why politicians there are allowed to do insider trading. Then again, previous prime minister where im from basically did the same, but said “sorry”, so it’s cool.
It is explicitly not illegal for Congress to do what Martha did. There was an article yesterday that Pelosi just made like 500k doing it?
One of the actual “both sides are shitty” examples is insider trading. It seems like a no-brainer that it should be illegal for our politicians to do it, but they refuse to vote on a bill to make it so.
Several vampires and highlanders just woke up with a lot of their cash missing.
One listed director — at 942 years old — would have been born in the 11th century.
You do not want to fuck with that elder vampire.
