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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

"now"...

Seriously, we can't limit ourselves based on what we've seen in our lives.

With a progressive president and Congress to back them up, we could 100% just say we're seizing their money and throwing them in prison.

Fuck it, there's honestly nothing stopping us except learned helplessness.

Take the wealth they stole from us, put them in prison, and just don't let them out.

They would 100% do it to us. Our society doesn't benefit from them being here, they don't pay taxes or do anything to pay us back. So whether they abscond and we only get domestic assets, or they're dumb enough to stay and we get everything.

Either way, we benefit.

And before anyone mentions shell companies, yes, we would also need to finally crack down on those too. If you're hungry and thirsty you don't do neither, you do both.