Anti money laundering agency right next door to a bunch of giant industrial money laundries? That’s German efficiency.
They don’t even need to leave their building, just sit in the front door and arrest every suit that walks past.
Anti money laundering agency right next door to a bunch of giant industrial money laundries? That’s German efficiency.
They don’t even need to leave their building, just sit in the front door and arrest every suit that walks past.
Yes that’s the only point in this debate, but what kind of person Putin is and what kind of state he runs has been well known for quite some time. Navalny’s death is just another data point in a long history of awfully convenient and totally natural deaths of Putin critics and/or other dissidents and defectors.
His fate was sealed the moment he returned to Russia, I am honestly surprised that they let him live for so long.
If only the media could stop parroting every shit those vile people say, it’s playing right into their hands.
The social fabric in our society is ripped in such a way that old people often feel “left over” whereas in other societies they remain an integral part and can still have meaningful interactions, where they feel able to provide to society and be respected for it.
Western Societies have now been bombarded by incessant neoliberal propaganda for decades. A lot of that propaganda takes the divide and conquer approach to make cutbacks to social security and workers’ rights palatable to the public. One day it’s the unemployed who are at fault for cutbacks to pensions, the next day it’s the pensioners who are too expensive to finance proper unemployment benefits. This has been going on and on for decades, with ever changing marginalised groups being played against each other. Meanwhile boundless egotism and individualism has been lauded as the ultimate life goal of “freedom”.
The result of this is a society of egomaniacs who are only looking out for themselves and hate arbitrary people for being in the arbitrary drawer they have been stuffed into by the currently prevalent propaganda.
The thing is that enslaving people is a crime in most countries. Wouldn’t it be great if companies had a person responsible for their actions who could then be held responsible for crimes committed in the name or for the benefit of said company?
Unfortunately, nobody seems to be willing or able to prosecute the CEOs of big corporations.
And the enshittification continues.
But Apple makes overpriced ego boosting lifestyle products anyway, so anyone who thinks they need their crap deserves it.
Which big corporation that operates internationally has any morals?
I wouldn’t buy a VW vehicle based on their decline in quality and affordability during the last few decades alone. If you don’t want to buy products that contain components or materials made by Chinese, or really, any, slave labour, you’ll have a hard time buying any industrial product. Of course, the usage of slave labour by corporations needs to be stopped, but as an individual, that’s hardly possible, because often you don’t have any choice. This problem needs concerted action by governments, ideally with personal consequences for the people responsible.
If they build crappy cars of their own, they have no need to import crappy cars from abroad. Indeed convenient.
In its correct pronunciation, it sounds like an English expletive that can be used on Putin. So all is not as bad as it seems.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Don’t mess with Plato, apart from being a philosopher, he was a competitive wrestler who would occasionally threaten to beat up people who disagreed with him.
This has been company tradition from the very beginning. The only thing they had going for themselves was building affordable quality cars at some time in the past.
It must be, otherwise there would be no good reason why “Kant” is pronounced like “cunt”.
Let’s wait and see how they agree or disagree after the subsidies they received for moving there have run out, and some other place offers subsidies for setting up shop there.
Subsidy hopping is a thing.
I still blame those first time voters for not informing themselves properly before voting. They all should know people whom they could ask, and are old enough to remember, if they only cared enough.
To me it sounded like tax dodging and corruption. Could have fooled me, sneaky bugger.
I bet that book also unironically mentioned the Invisible Hand of the Market™
The copyright industry is pretty much a legal protection racket. Nothing is sacred to them. In Germany they have been suing Kindergartens over singing old childrens’ songs with the children.
At least here, a good chunk of that money does indeed fund other cultural endeavors.
Cultural endeavors is a very polite way to put it. A large chunk of it goes to only a handful of big performers in the music industry, the small ones who would actually need money get very little.
It’s more like German politicians love donations from the big money launderers and tax dodgers so much that they continually make sure to systematically underfund, understaff, and disempower any authorities tasked with investigating and prosecuting financial crimes.