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Privacy Is Dignity · 1w
Have people stopped to question this phenomenon of "money laundering"? It's a term used to coerce us into compliance. The term "money launderers" makes us think of international drug barons, funneli...
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Yeah lol money laundering is not a crime, not by any moral or natural law. Tax evasion? Definitely a crime. Using money for crime? Well yeah you're committing a crime. But "money laundering" is just pre crime bullshit that is made to subjugate, not fight crime.
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nostrich · 1w
In the current tax regime. Tax evasion is the crime while theft (taxes) should become a sanctioned crime, which it is not. The world is upside down for a long time already.
Scoundrel · 1w
"money laundering" is like "hate crimes" money anonymization is not illegal, and neither is hate. However the state WISHES it could make those things illegal, so it settles for increasing the penalties of other crimes based on whether the crimes are associated with hate or money anonymization.