Panama Papers and List of People Named in the Panama Papers on Wikipedia
If justice isn’t legally accessible it will be acquired by other means.
The working class has been crushed by neoliberalism for 50+ years and there’s still no justice in site. The oligarchs that control “democracy” know there’s a high chance they’ll remain insulated from all the suffering they cause. They are so confident in this their goal now is to remove the illusion of democracy.
All they had to do was construct a society where the working class is exposed exclusively to neoliberal propaganda from birth until death. Several generations onwards, and here we are. Class consciousness is essentially none amongst large swaths of the working class population.
For that, we need mass organization, which is extremely difficult both logisticly (due to the size of the US and how spread out the polulation is) and politicly (decades of neoliberal and red scare propoganda).
Super heroes will not save us from this shit. Not ever. (Even if they weren’t fictional.)
So a rich guy who can put on a mask and beat up the poor while advancing the arms race with criminals becoming more unhinged or a guy whose family was murdered and starts turning to vigilante justice and became what every cop wet dreams that they actually are?
…Sure. That’ll help. /s
Here’s a ‘fun’ math problem for the whole family:
Step 1) Find out what a life is worth: What was the amount of money awarded to relatives in the latest court case that had a payout for a death?
Step 2) Find out how much money was embezzled.
Step 3) Calculate the damage done by those fuckers in terms of people killed.
The defendants in that case were acquitted because the income of money from illicit sources could not be determined, according to a court statement.
Sounds like the judge did their level best to find some random way to weasel out of doing their job. “Oh, wait, you can’t prove definitively that every single penny of the laundered money was from illegal sources? Guess that means everyone is innocent!”
It can’t just be me and my perspective. The world is just legitimately getting worse, in almost every respect. WTF.
The world is getting better in the long run by almost every metric, don’t get sucked into the doomer mentality.
Still fucked up ruling though.
Bro we’re about to kill the whole fucking planet and America just legalized political assassination.
There’s less people living in poverty today than ever before. We all carry around super computers that connect us with our loved ones at all times and contain all of human knowledge. If you’re over 5’8 and weigh more than 145 pounds then you’re physically better off than the average US soldier during WW2. Diseases that used to kill millions every year are now close to eradication.
Don’t mistake your increased awareness of global issues as things getting worse. This is the best time in human history to be alive. Anyone telling you different is looking at a very specific aspect of the past with rose tinted glasses.
The system still working as intended.
“I resemble these accusations!” - Judge
