Since the US is trying to push for restrictions on SWIFT
Posted Feb 26, 2022, 4:27 PM UTC
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Anyone from the NYPD out there? Time to 'civil asset forfieture' all those empty central park apartments owned by Russian Oligarchs.
Go on! It's not like anyone could stop you.
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Problem is they arent owned by russians but rather “anonymous LLC 12345”
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Well...because then all of the democrat and all of the republican politicians wouldn't be able to secretly move their money around and avoid paying tax either 🤷
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It's not just Democrats and Republicans. It's all over the world...
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Hoping to use the same opportunistic tactics they use to get rid of common people rights like when they claim its to fight terrorism or sex trafficking like SOPA
Use “russian money”
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They'll eventually put together enough sanctions to almost ruin Abromovich
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That would hurt the wrong people.
/s
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The US is often seen as the biggest tax shelter country in the world
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Because we, the USA, are one of the tax shelters.
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The US is one of the worst offenders.
And South Dakoda is one of our worst state offenders.
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Because united states is also that country.
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RUSSIAN TROLL: Those poor Russians! What about this other distraction! What about that? If we are trying to hurt these poor innocent Russians why aren’t we trying to hurt blah blah blah.
This is lazy whataboutism. Russians aren’t even trying anymore. You can tell their heart isn’t in this cause they know Putin has gone insane.
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RUSSIAN TROLL: Those poor Russians! What about this other distraction! What about that?
A) You realize the point is to hurt russian ability to move and spend money. How is hurting russian money now pro-russian?
B) Doing more than one thing at a time is possible especially when there is more than 1 person doing things and especially true when hundreds, or millions , or billions are doing something
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The people that would need to authorize those sanctions are the same people benefiting from those tax shelters and bank secrecy.
Welcome to reality.
Taking a strong stance to fight against power with cynicism
Yep. Those countries are serving the interests of the rich, all of the rich not just russian oligarchs.