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harumph

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1. Concur. It's like people thinking that the legacy media is anything but a loss leader for oligarchs.

Reply to gab13by13 (Original post)

Sat Apr 11, 2026, 08:21 AM

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The market is so corrupted, it no longer about risk and loss - but about power and making sure the firehose of grift is maintained.
I used to believe the saying "Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait." was an exaggeration. Not anymore.
Expose all shell companies. Claw back ill gotten wealth. Jail fraudsters - in a real jail - for a non-trivial term.

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