Throatbane

QERMİT (🇹🇷🐸)

and the sequel trilogy is blorp

That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.

the good news is, who cares about any of this

Here's our Venezuela topic page with more investigations.

And we'll have more on this in 2026 for sure.
www.occrp.org/en/regions/l...

At the top is defense minister Vladimir Padrino López. Reporters have linked him to properties and companies worth millions.

And a select group of 35 generals hold positions in companies authorized to receive lucrative state contracts.
www.occrp.org/en/project/r...

And here's Revolution to Riches, a series of investigations based on internal army documents. They show how generals key to the regime's survival have enriched themselves.

Socialism is all well and good, but 1/3 of the top brass are in private business. www.occrp.org/en/project/r...

“On the upper floors they’re playing basketball, and in the basement people are being tortured," says a local journalist.

Teams in the Professional Basketball Super League are controlled by security officials accused of abuses. Here's our story on that. www.occrp.org/en/feature/c...

it's certainly not "being a dick to strangers on the internet"

my calling it lawlessness is not a condemnation?

I didn't say "medical bankruptcies are not a problem in the Unites States." I said, correctly, that the post is misleading and using a fake number. It's doesn't help anything to try to convince people that things are much worse than they really are.

I don't know! It wasn't the zeroes I was disputing.

facts matter, right?

That U.S. number was rated “mostly false” by Washington Post fact checkers.

It’s from a single study that counts a bankruptcy as “medical” if a person even “somewhat agrees” that medical bills or illness contributed to their bankruptcy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...