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

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So you take issue with the idea that an out of mob that burned down 35 blocks of a mid sized city was motivated by envy and resentment of the prosperous black community. Instead, you assert it was a mob that assembled to lynch a young man who was arrested for assault after he stepped on the foot of or grabbed the arm of a white female elevator operator when he tripped in the elevator. I guess they got out of hand whe…

I take issue with the statement "There were too many successful black men" and wikipedia as proof for that. Honest representation of facts is important to me in general.

https://www.neh.gov/article/1921-tulsa-massacre

"After an all-night battle on the Frisco Tracks, many residents of Greenwood were taken by surprise as bullets ripped through the walls of their homes in the predawn hours. Biplanes dropped fiery turpentine bombs from the night skies onto their rooftops—the first aerial bombing of an American city in history. A furious mob of thousands of white men then surged over Black homes, killing, destroying, and snatching everything from dining room furniture to piggy banks. Arsonists reportedly waited for white women to fill bags with household loot before setting homes on fire. Tulsa police officers were identified by eyewitnesses as setting fire to Black homes, shooting residents and stealing. Eyewitnesses saw women being chased from their homes naked—some with babies in their arms—as volleys of shots were fired at them. Several Black people were tied to cars and dragged through the streets."

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"One kid groped another kid" is an insufficient explanation of this kind of violence and looting.

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

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What about the rest of the Trump clan and their shady shit? Donald Trump Jr. serves as an advisor to both Kalshi and Polymarket...it's just comical

In France, in the 80s-80s, a comedian trio did a sketch on rural hunters, and the final was about the difference between the good hunter and the bad hunter, the whole sketch was like 6-7min and 1min was about the good and bad hunter. I keep remembering this sketch each time I read about the differences in prosecution in the US between social classes. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/FJCplaZBgg0

You have to switch your VPN to France to watch this video. Just FYI. I didn't get it at all btw.

From what I gathered:

What's the difference between a good hunter and bad hunter.

A bad hunter shoots anything that moves, a good hunter shoots anything that moves. Perhaps something was lost in translation.

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

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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.

Just ban gambling. That solves good part of it. Then ENFORCE EXISTING LAWS. That solves good part of it. Talking about any other solutions will have to wait for govt that's not crooked. It doesn't need revolution, it needs to not have criminals at helm

> Just ban gambling. That solves good part of it.

does that include the stock exchange?

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

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post #314

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Are we now not at all allowed to reference problems in other societies? We can complain about western society, and complaints from 100 years ago, when even my grandfather wasn't born yet, are valid criticism of America/Europe/... but things that happen today in India, Pakistan, Turkey are off limits?

Who complained about bringing up the foul stuff that goes on outside the US?

No one did of course, but it's a common tactic of distraction to try to focus the attention on something else. That way people don't have to experience the discomfort thinking about the negative thing going on in their own society.

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Because there are so many applicants that have good grades. A more cynical view is that the governing boards want a way to pick and choose who they let in. So they create "holistic" application systems to get "360 degree view of the candidate".

> Because there are so many applicants that have good grades. So train more doctors.

That would increase competition and thus depress wages for existing doctors, who are the ones who make the decisions here. I heard, from a medical school attendee, that she overheard some doctors discussing whether it would be a good idea to require a fifth year of medical school to become a general practitioner (luckily, they were like, "Eh... nah"). It did not seem like it bothered them that this would make it even harder for civilians to get medical care.

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

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Many people here are talking about how more powerful people are also corrupt and are getting away with it. All corruption is bad. This soldier put the life of everyone on the mission in danger by doing this.

These things aren't mutually exclusive. I don't see what is wrong with rightfully complaining about how insider trading is very rampant.

This soldier deserves his punishment. I just wish they would enforce these laws on our congressmen.

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> Because there are so many applicants that have good grades. So train more doctors.

That would increase competition and thus depress wages for existing doctors, who are the ones who make the decisions here. I heard, from a medical school attendee, that she overheard some doctors discussing whether it would be a good idea to require a fifth year of medical school to become a general practitioner (luckily, they were like, "Eh... nah"). It did not seem like it bothered them that this would make it even…

I thought lawmakers made the decisions. Silly me! :-D

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Tulsa once had what was known as Black Wall Street. There were too many successful black men, so 1921 in the whites massacred everybody. They even brought in planes and dropped bombs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre

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Read between the lines.

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> Medical schools require a lot of volunteering But...why? Why not just let in the applicants that have the best grades?

Because there are so many applicants that have good grades. A more cynical view is that the governing boards want a way to pick and choose who they let in. So they create "holistic" application systems to get "360 degree view of the candidate".

> Because there are so many applicants that have good grades.

Sounds like we need more spots for these people to go

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

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Many people here are talking about how more powerful people are also corrupt and are getting away with it. All corruption is bad. This soldier put the life of everyone on the mission in danger by doing this.

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