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  • I would argue “rule of law” is not relevant to American oligarchs.

    I agree. But it’s relevant to me.

    I want my government to work within the rules. I don’t want my government to be able to tax people on "strongly hold opinion"s and "everybody knows"es.

    I’m not saying that taxes can’t be improvement. But taxing international companies is extremely complex problem. No one found completely bulletproof solution yet, and it’s almost impossible to do unilaterally without multiple sides collaborating. Everytime someone say “the should just…” it’s a gross oversimplification that present reality where solution is obvious and everyone not implementing it gave bad will or lack competency or gut.



  • That’s not unreasonable. That’s a law-suit. They will get back all this money with surplus.

    Imagine that you have a company A. And you legitimately licens something from 3rd party company B. That’s your cost.

    And you license something else from company C… that’s your profit some how?

    On paper your relationship with company B and C is identical. There is nothing tangible linking you to company C more than B.

    And if you manage to find something, they will shift the structure and change it.

    You probably pay higher taxes than some of those companies.

    Pirates. Enemies of the human kind.



  • If only tax-evasion was so easily solved. The are not shy of restructuring completely just to fit into any gap that law created. On paper “BigBadCorpo US” and “BigBadCorpo Irealand” could be two completely separate entities, with BBCI turning zero to no profits becouse it license brand from BBCUS.

    You would think that Worner Bross is a movie making company. It’s not. On paper it’s a company that lend very overprices movie equipment. To shell companies created solely for the purpose of creating one movie…

    Taxes are hard and people who employ literal armies of layers have the edge over slow law making.











  • Ideonek@lemm.eetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldWhat is anti-propaganda?
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    In comics Anti-hero, is not a villain. It’s a hero, using same tools as villains would (Deadpool, Punisher, etc).

    Anti-pripaganda. Is a propaganda with opposite vector. Same tools, different goal.

    If propaganda is “USA is roten country with systemic oppression off all but 1%, that is comming for our freedom and our resources”, the anti-propaganda would be “USA is the greatest country in the word and things we do are good becouse we are ones doing it. What even is a Patriot Act? Only terrorist should worry about stuff like this.”



  • Maybe. But your impression of it may be skewed, because there are a lot of non-USA people here. That creste some mismatch in terms that tend to overwaight the perceived size of left-leaning people. But it’s terminology, really. What in USA is considered “left” more-or-less align with what is considered left outside of USA. But what an average Trump supporter call “conservative”, in the rest of the word is simply know as lunacy.