30 People Are Sharing What Strange Events Were Sort Of Collectively Forgotten About

Donald Trump's "tax cut", when enacted, removed a tax deduction the middle class depended on for years. Most middle class workers paid more in income taxes after his "tax cut". It was primarily for the rich and corporations. Yet the voters forgot all about that.

Convenient for the elite, I imagine.

It wasn't "collectively forgotten". The Panama papers soon became a non story because, as was pointed out early on, a lot of the hidden money was hidden quite legally thanks to loop holes. The papers revealed surprisingly little illegal activity and soon faded from public commentary because realistically, it really was just a lot of rich people trying to minimise tax rather than avoid and there is a difference.

Wikipedia has a huge explanation on this. It's not forgotten. Please link to your sources when posting on bored panda.

there was a whole movie about it. :) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5865326/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_16

When a law is written so absurdly bad that they allow supporters of the law to walk away with $400 billion in taxpayer money, you have to wonder if the law wasn't written so badly deliberately. Especially when those companies gave absurd campaign contributions to the people who wrote those laws. The only thing that the post-Nixon campaign finance laws accomplished was to make Congress dependent on crooks for re-election.

Bell South ran the cable between two rural towns alongside the road in front of my house. Pocketed the money, and didn't connect a single thing to it.

Government grants in a nutshell. Free money if you're hooked up with politicians

Non US here-isnt there any way that the companies can be forced to return the cash?

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90s, it's a plural...

I remember this. Instead of making the bankrupt company who left the fertilizer clean it up, Newly elected Florida governor Ron DeSantis had it diverted into into the bay. Florida law dictated the mess be cleaned up by the offending company.. I always had the impression that DeSantis emptied it into the bay because Tampa residents didn't vote for him. Yes, he is that petty.

Those poor things.

When did that happen and what company was responsible for it?

The sugar industry in Florida is responsible for a large amount of environmental damage. But it is all ignored as their lobby is so powerful and their monetary contributions to congressmen is so great.

I barely remember it

Note that they did all have copies made, even of the unreleased stuff on them, and UMG usually works exclusively from copies because the fidelity of the masters gets destroyed over time. The master loss is horrific, I am only stating that nothing that was destroyed in the fire was lost entirely. Is that the right word? That nothing was the only copy in existence.

This seems less concerning than others

Wow. This must have been really squashed.

I remember. Though I do not know that anyone besides music enthusiasts (ok, freaks like me) should be bothered by it.

That was exactly 2 days before I was born tho :O

or when they failed to warn a school down wind from the first test and the girls were playing in the radioactive dust

Honestly, the US lost ones are not that concerning. At least we know about where they are, we just can't find them. One is somewhere in the ocean near Savanna, GA, another is in the ocean somewhere near Delaware, one is 16,000ft down in the ocean by the Philippines, one is somewhere near Japan, again in the ocean, the last one is only part of a nuke, and is somewhere in the ocean by northern Greenland. The US ones we are relatively sure nobody has them, they are just lost in the ocean. The ones from the former USSR are way more scary. Nobody knows how many of those were lost when the USSR broke up, they claim none, but ya, right. Ones that were lost when this happened, somebody probably has.

This was in the news recently. Definitely not forgotten.

Wendy, if you decide to read this comment here's ten bucks. Buy a sense of humor and a few more IQ points.

Probably sitting in some thrift shops because no one knows their value.

Censorship by the Chinese government. Saw some bits about it during covid, about the brutal crackdowns and mass arrests, then nothing. All censored.

Many of those that protested now live in the UK, pimarily to avoid jail in Hong Kong.

no, they continued until the CCP sent in shock troops, bashed in skulls, arrested thousands (many who have not been heard from since), etc

There were anti-government protests (sometimes violent ones) on the mainland at the end of 2022, just before lockdown measures were relaxed. That also seems to have been basically forgotten.

Just been in the UK media about protestors being jailed by China so, no, not forgotten.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-us-government-trillions-lost-sept-11-670264168912

Lots of things were forgotten after 9/11...