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Another leak that will have people "outraged" by aggressively upvoting and commenting on articles for two weeks. The news cycle will move on, the leakers will b

Another leak that will have people "outraged" by aggressively upvoting and commenting on articles for two weeks. The news cycle will move on, the leakers will be car bombed [0], and these papers will be memoryholed. You can wait around for four years til a new set of old rich people get voted into power (maybe they'll be blue/red this time!!!!) and hope they get rid of the loopholes they all use. Maybe a couple more """revolutionary""" politicians will be elected who VERBALLY DISMANTLE AND DESTROY a couple billionaires in a senate hearing (OMG SO AWESOME!!!). Decide for yourself if you think anything will change. There does exist a great equalizer, but I won't mention it. I like staying unb&. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb-kills-panama-papers-journalist https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb...

adflux 5y ago
What's the equalizer? Revolution?
- esarbe 5y ago
  In all honesty, that's the suitor they are toying with, isn't it? As long as they can squeeze some more profit out of the common people, there's no reason not to do it. (Just see how Amazon treats it's workers.) It's only when people are on the barricades that they will relent.
- culi 5y ago
  https://www.britannica.com/topic/guillotine https://www.britannica.com/topic/guillotine (/s)
- petre 5y ago
  No, justice. What currently happenes to Szarkozy. Of course, all of this happens in a country that guilotined their king and his wife, so the revolution helped a bit in that regard.
  - namdnay 5y ago
    I really really wouldn’t take France as an example of how to deal with corrupt politicians. There’s an astounding complacency around corruption here, a politician in the US or UK wouldn’t have been able to get away with 1% of what Chirac or Juppé or Sarkozy got up to in the 80s-90s
    - petre 5y ago
      Probably, but at least Szarkozy is a positive example up until now. I hope he does some time for what he did.
- clydethefrog 5y ago
  The Great Leverer is indeed historically only achieved by violent means. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/the-great-leveler https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/th...
Qw3r7 5y ago
My thoughts exactly, which sucks.

adflux 5y ago

What's the equalizer? Revolution?

esarbe 5y ago
In all honesty, that's the suitor they are toying with, isn't it? As long as they can squeeze some more profit out of the common people, there's no reason not to do it. (Just see how Amazon treats it's workers.) It's only when people are on the barricades that they will relent.
culi 5y ago
https://www.britannica.com/topic/guillotine https://www.britannica.com/topic/guillotine (/s)
petre 5y ago
No, justice. What currently happenes to Szarkozy. Of course, all of this happens in a country that guilotined their king and his wife, so the revolution helped a bit in that regard.
- namdnay 5y ago
  I really really wouldn’t take France as an example of how to deal with corrupt politicians. There’s an astounding complacency around corruption here, a politician in the US or UK wouldn’t have been able to get away with 1% of what Chirac or Juppé or Sarkozy got up to in the 80s-90s
  - petre 5y ago
    Probably, but at least Szarkozy is a positive example up until now. I hope he does some time for what he did.
clydethefrog 5y ago
The Great Leverer is indeed historically only achieved by violent means. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/the-great-leveler https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/th...

Qw3r7 5y ago

My thoughts exactly, which sucks.