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

Post by Foobar8568 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 2:28 PM UTC

s_dev wrote: post #472

Foobar8568 wrote: post #384

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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.

Post by superxpro12 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 2:30 PM UTC

TSiege wrote: post #462

ghtbircshotbe wrote: post #437

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.

The sentiment is not that this man shouldn't be prosecuted it is that the blatant double standard and growing endemic societal cancer that is corruption is being allowed to blossom while leaders target scape goats for the same behavior. What this administration is trying to signal with going after this guy is that the problem is not with them, it's someone else, that they're on the up and up. It is why scapegoating i…

Post by superxpro12 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 2:31 PM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #224

What’s the point of prediction markets? They are just ordinary gambling unless you allow insider trading and manipulation, because that’s the only way the market can acquire and represent novel useful information. But if you allow those things, you run into a host of well-documented problems which are the reason why those things are forbidden in other markets. As it stands, prediction markets seem like a tech-aligned…

Post by pmc123 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 2:34 PM UTC

alistairSH wrote: post #383

samsari wrote: post #277

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You're almost right, but "class" and "caste" are not synonyms and cannot be used interchangeably.

Except in the United States it is true. Something like 80% of new military recruits come from military families (parent, sibling, uncle/aunt, or grandparent). Similarly over the last few decades the number of medical doctors who have immediate family who are also doctors has grown. Social and economic class in the US is increasingly set in stone and hereditary.

Post by snowwrestler » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #224

What’s the point of prediction markets? They are just ordinary gambling unless you allow insider trading and manipulation, because that’s the only way the market can acquire and represent novel useful information. But if you allow those things, you run into a host of well-documented problems which are the reason why those things are forbidden in other markets. As it stands, prediction markets seem like a tech-aligned…