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e173f646 | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Remember when the Panama Papers came out? Remember that it evidenced a global network of tax-dodging, wealth-hoarding, criminal activity by the super-rich? Remember how literally nothing happened?
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1e7645be | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f9cb8dfe 
Remember when Cum-Ex came out? A huge German networking of tax-dodging?
Did something happen?
Nope! 
Only the lead prosecutor is going to be stripped of power.
In a similar case in Hessen, tax investigators were diagnosed with a "paranoid-querulatory" disorder. 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steuerfahnder-Aff%C3%A4re
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33ae49b5 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f9cb8dfe 

"We were full of righteous anger and dreams of vengeance when we got here, and a couple of blowjobs and hangovers later, it’s like nothing ever happened."

-James S.A. Corey, *Leviathan Wakes*
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Paarth :verified: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f9cb8dfe From the ICIJ, aka a group that helped publish the Panama Papers in the first place: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/five-years-later-panama-papers-still-having-a-big-impact/