• Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I think Epstein is wag the dog for Israel

    Which is wag the dog for an international consortium of “banking interests” around since the 1800s who profit off of endless war

    I’m not sure who the banking interests are wag the dog for, probably some JERKS

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      Absolutely not. These are all massive human rights violations and none of them should be disregarded in favor of any other one. And the participants and benefactors of Epstein’s island should all be severely punished. There is no amount of wag the dog that will change the fact that children were routinely sexually abused for blackmail on the rich and powerful.

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    I mean I still remember the Panama Papers, CumEx, Snowden, Wikileaks, Chelsea Manning. Nothing ever happens to the people in power. This was always gonna end like this.

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      4 hours ago

      Check out the Pandora papers! You won’t hear about that on NBC

      The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published beginning on 3 October 2021.

      Think Panama part 2, lots of world leaders banking internationally to avoid the taxes they make into law for everybody else. Not a peep from “mainstream media” that I know of.

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      6 hours ago

      Exactly. People in power learned a while back to just wait out the outrage and continue doing whatever the fuck they want.

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      i remember all of those except CumEx. Given the spacing between Panama and Snowden i think that was during the year i spent dead for tax purposes and i do not want to google CumEx. What does it stand for?

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          what i mean is, is it short for something. i would have known about that, i feel like i should have known about that, that was my profession. i had clients in germany. just, i legitimately have two missing years in my memory.

          it means WithWith or WithOut as far as i know. give me a little, i’m not googling Cum Cum

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            Basically, very rich people got reimbursed taxes for losses that never manifested (or twice for the same thing, I think both schemes existed)

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              that’s not what i’m asking. i know how to buy losses. i can set you up with losses if you want to buy losses, same way the rich folk are doing. it’s a very uncomplicated scheme. i’m asking what the Cum and Ex in CumCum or CumEx are short for so i can look it up and do my own research without googling Cum how much more explicit can i be

              like how FedEx means Federal Express

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    So the Bush’s and all the presidents who want something to stop trending they just bomb countries??

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        because it’s a country. south korea has never not been at war. it is just a natural consequence of being a State

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          Yeah I remember when South Korea traveled accross the ocean and land to invade Poland. Your usual state behavior. /s

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            pick any country and look at its history. including yours. they are always fucking at war, either invading, being invaded, or asking another state do it for them. my point being, the korean war (what created south korea) has never ended, which i’d wager is causative to the dismal quality of life in both south and north korea even though it has long ago ceased being an active hot war.

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      Well that’s been common knowledge since I first took an interest in geopolitics, several decades ago. We didn’t call it “stop trending” back then but yeah.

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    13 hours ago

    Most people in the US are just so fucking stupid. Here I am in the middle of them just hoping another MAGA or two goes vigilante on their own politicians.

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    14 hours ago

    Does it really mean much if people aren’t asking Google for “epstein files”? I don’t think I’ve ever looked for that (or used Google to do so).

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    Ok, but this says that the google search for “Epstein files” died on 18 of february, 10 days before USA/Israel started the attack. So the war is not about the Epstein files, which I agree with. It is about USA’s foreign policy.
    It is in the interest of USA and Israel to severely damage the Islamic regime of Iran.
    It is in the interest of western allies to help or be quiet about the attacks and not to raise too much of a ruckus about it.

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      Wait why is it in US intrest to severaly damage Iran? there was a deal by Iran to give up all its nuclar stockpile and convert the rest to fuel irreversibly under full inspection and verification by the UN nuclar watchdog. AND they also would invite American oil companies to invest and trade with them. That was the deal Israel bombed away in the middle of negotiation.

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        Oh its not about the nuclear stuff, I don’t think even the Trump admin believes that shit, even though they lie about it. I mean it from a military point of view and geopolitically.
        Israel, USA and USA’s partners in the area (Middle East) stand to gain because the Islamic regime is the one financing opposing factions in the are.
        And on a larger scale, USA and USA’s allies stand to win because the Islamic regime is the one actively aiding Russia in its war of conquest against an European country - for how many months/years now … 3 years? 4 years? I lost track. Anyway, for a loooong time they have sent thousands upon thousands of drones to bomb Ukraine.

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          You mean who opposing factions to US? Yemen? Lebanon? Syria? Iraq? Are you high? Wtf does the US have to do with these third-world countries in the middleeast?

          Furthermore, India, North Korea and even China trade and help Russia in its wars. Iran had to trade with them because of US sanctions in first place.

          If the US wanted to boost trade, economy, and stability of the environment and peace in the reigon, and actually help the people of Iran, they would have lifted sanctions and trade with them instead of this. That way the US would even have irresistable leverage on Iran that would force them to not send a dime to finance Russia in its war as you said.

          Lastly, I dont know who you are referring to by US allies… or US government allies… and how do you define an ally. A genocidal aparthied and oppresive family dictatorships are considered US allies by your standards?

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            If the US wanted to boost trade, economy, and stability of the environment and peace in the reigon, and actually help the people of Iran

            USA/Israel don’t care about the Iranian people, that’s merely a propaganda stunt.

            Furthermore, India, North Korea and even China trade and help Russia in its wars.

            An open conflict with China is undesirable by both parties almost in equal measure. NK is already sanctioned up the ass, an open conflict would lead to a conflict with China. And I would like you to notice that India is being gradually weaned off the Russian teat, so to speak. Take a look at India’s trends in regards to defense-related imports. Its not a process that started recently, but almost a decade ago. They used to get +65% of their shit from Russia, but in the present that number dropped to 40% and they’ve been replaced by France and Israel. I have a hunch that these numbers will continue to lean geopolitically west-ward.
            India buying of Russian oil has been deemed as an acceptable cost, as they value India’s resources more - and India’s greatest value is people, they have a lot of those. Cheap labour for western capital.
            Hence the “mother of all deals” that was recently signed.

            A genocidal aparthied and oppresive family dictatorships are considered US allies by your standards?

            I’m sorry. Are you new to the whole USA business?