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US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

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Post by watwut »

bawolff wrote: post #163
herewulf wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine doing an easy tour in your air conditioned Kuwaiti logistics office and then getting blown to bits by a ballistic missile because no one bothered to tell you about the war that was being initiated which would cause such missiles in retaliation. Yeah, that's demoralizing too.

I mean, surely everyone in the middle east knew a war was on the horizon. Obviously not the exact plan or day, but it wasn't a secret that usa was gearing up for a war.

The war was surprised and host of people said so - goverments, expats living ij region, locals. And were pisssed

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Post by pyrale »

int32_64 wrote: post #102
herewulf wrote: post #79

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Imagine doing an easy tour in your air conditioned Kuwaiti logistics office and then getting blown to bits by a ballistic missile because no one bothered to tell you about the war that was being initiated which would cause such missiles in retaliation. Yeah, that's demoralizing too.

There will be derivative contracts of prediction markets to predict if an insider is indicted for betting on a specific prediction. And those prediction markets will have derivative markets to predict if an insider in the prosecutor's office bet on that contract. And those prediction markets will have derivative markets to predict if a special prosecutor will prosecute the other prosecutor. And those prediction marke…

> additional derivative markets will exist up to the divine wrath of god

We already know that Jesus will come back in an election year

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Post by eptcyka »

nandomrumber wrote: post #192
wraptile wrote: post #184

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At this point insider trading issue has run away so hard I don't see how it can be tamed without revolutionary frameworks. If we look at crypto then I'm not sure we want to live in a world where insider trading is normalized either so we ought to start working on these new frameworks as soon as possible but nobody seems to care.

> without revolutionary frameworks I’d argue that the level of corruption we’re seeing, not just in the USA but all over the Western world, hasn’t risen to a level that warrants revolutionary action. > nobody seems to care And it would seem that the masses tend to agree. We are much much better off tolerating this level of corruption than we would be attempting a revolution. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter how fat the…

So a slow decline is OK?

Nah, life would be better if a cleptocrat couldn’t find his way into power.

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Post by varjag »

remus wrote: post #210
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #173

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> sycophants in DC Who? Because if you have evidence of military secrets being leaked through prediction markets, we actually need that journalistic record maintained.

I don't think the parent mentioned military secrets in particular? But the insider trading is already well documented e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cge0grppe3po

Pretty sure Count 1 through 5 above cover insider trading by administration officials too.

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Post by nixass »

sigmar wrote: post #42

Since this is relevant to many HN comments, copy-pasted the charges from the pdf indictment in the linked page: Count 1 - Unlawful Use of Confidential Government Information for Personal Gain Count 2 - Theft of Nonpublic Government Information Count 3 - Commodities Fraud Count 4 - Wire Fraud Count 5 - Engaging in a Monetary Transaction in Property Derived from Specified Unlawful Activity

> Count 5 - Engaging in a Monetary Transaction in Property Derived from Specified Unlawful Activity

For a moment there I read this as the unlawful activity was Maduro's arrest, and someone made money on that fact.

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Post by jcgrillo »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #216
rapidaneurism wrote: post #200

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You mean any non crypto payment system? :)

Going to guess that anyone in the U.S. military has their crypto wallet aggresively profiled by various spy agencies.

And literally every other thing they do on the internet.. remember that Strava shit? You have relatively technically unsophisticated people with high level access and not a lot of adult supervision. That seems like a juicy target. I assume there are a lot of well funded and staffed outifts around the world who have noticed the same thing.

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Post by yieldcrv »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #218
yieldcrv wrote: post #194

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the other person was talking about not making a decision, so you've transposed an idea not mentioned at all onto my comment good luck out there what to remember: the goal of the parties are to win friends and influence people, it's a weird meme that you aren't doing that and neither is the other party. time to re-evaluate the communication style yeah? proselytizing isn't working

The idea that nobody in American politics is trying to win friends nor influence people is indeed a very weird meme! As you say, that implies there's a big lane of persuasion that isn't being filled for some reason, even though everyone who's heard of Dale Carnegie knows it ought to be. Have you considered the possibility that the meme might be false? That would explain neatly why it's so weird.

amusing.

parties are losing members and partisan’s methods are not effective

there is a big lane of persuasion that isn’t being filled

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Post by foo12bar »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #173
SlightlyLeftPad wrote: post #171

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Huh that’s interesting. The sycophants in DC seem to be able to do everything listed here with no repercussions.

> sycophants in DC Who? Because if you have evidence of military secrets being leaked through prediction markets, we actually need that journalistic record maintained.

There's plenty of evidence of it happening, if you consider the odds of surges of pre-market trading of oil futures 20 minutes before Trump tweets on Iran happening coincidentally. The actual finding of who's who has to be done by the U.S. law enforcement, who aren't really interested.

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Post by pbkompasz »

looksjjhg wrote: post #177

That’s hilarious … so he’s arrested and put on trial and all the senate and congress are doing the exact same and free? lol

I like how when people talk about corruption they think about Nancy Pelosi or some other congressman/senator making couple million $ on the stock market over their entire careers due to insider trading. Just last week Trump made a bet of around $1B on the price of oil going down before doing a fake announcement.
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