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linhns ◴[] No.46193743[source]
Sounds like Paramount bosses are bidding in anger.
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moffers ◴[] No.46194053[source]
I think the political angle of this should not be discounted
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Spivak ◴[] No.46194785[source]
I mean it's not even politics in the way most people think about it—like this is just blatant corruption. Trump moved in and said this is my swamp.

We're not even gonna get a good investigative journalism podcast about the corruption because it's just right there in front of you. There's not much to uncover.

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softwaredoug ◴[] No.46198013[source]
We need some kind of independent anti-corruption agency, like the one we told Ukraine they had to have to receive aid.
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heurist ◴[] No.46199276[source]
Didn't that anti-corruption agency end up being corrupt too? Hard to follow all this stuff.
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1. Muromec ◴[] No.46199823[source]
Nah, they are fine. They ate head of presidents office alive last week.

Add: it's also not one anticorruption agency, but the whole bunch of them -- law enforcement one (think of FBI, but investigating corruption in government), special prosecutors office, another agency monitoring assets of anyone close enough to government (including immigration officers on a country level) and their family and a whole separate court with judges vetted by independent panel.

It's elections of Doge of Venice level of indirection.

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2. perihelions ◴[] No.46202505[source]
> "Nah, they are fine. They ate head of presidents office alive last week."

That's the same guy who tried to take over that anti-corruption office. He would be controlling it now, if it weren't for the massive country-wide protests about it. I'm not sure that they're doing fine.

Economist, July 2025:

> "On July 22nd the Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, passed a bill that would place the country’s two main anti-corruption bodies—NABU, which investigates wrongdoing, and SAPO, which prosecutes it—under the control of the presidency. This was not the work of rogue MPs. It was orchestrated from the top by President Volodymyr Zelensky and his all-powerful chief of staff, Andriy Yermak."

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/07/23/volodymyr-zelen... ( https://archive.is/kYh4w )

BBC, last week: "...was forced to U-turn after mass demonstrations",

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0nljm4y74o ("Andriy Yermak: How Zelensky's right-hand man fell from power" / "Fall of Zelensky's top aide - reboot for Kyiv or costly shake-up?")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_anti-corruption_protests_...

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3. Muromec ◴[] No.46202931[source]
>That's the same guy who tried to take over that anti-corruption office. He would be controlling it now, if it weren't for the massive country-wide protests about it. I'm not sure that they're doing fine.

Well, they won for now, that's what matters.