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

Post by inetknght » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 2:41 PM UTC

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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.

Unfortunately enforcing any laws on congressmen is very difficult. In all decent democracies elected politicians have immunity or similar safeguards, since the separation of powers (as theorized by Montesquieu in the middle of illuminism) which represents the foundation of democracy demands that both the legislative and executive power be separated from the judicial one. “Making the politicians pay for their crimes”…

Post by Pay08 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 2:49 PM UTC

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Sad that you want a return to the Reign of Terror.

Why do people assume revolutionary action must be violent? Emmeline Pankhurst will want to have words with them.

Post by ryandrake » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 2:50 PM UTC

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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".

No matter how many have good grades, you can always pick the top n by grades—unless there's a ceiling that the top m > n have all hit. Which, if you're talking about "grades" as in GPA, is plausible. MCAT seems more relevant, though. According to Claude: "Roughly 0.1% or fewer of test-takers score a perfect 528 in any given year — typically only a few dozen individuals out of the ~120,000 or so who sit for the exam a…

Post by Pay08 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 2:52 PM UTC

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But, being more respectful to you and who i orignally replied to — yes actual revolution could/would be brutal and could/would create a much worse daily life for the non-elites. Still, as I bet you could agree when not aguing semantics, its inexusable for people to declare we should accept corruption

> yes actual revolution would be brutal, and could/would create a much worse daily life for the non-elites. 50% of revolutions in the past 200 years have been non-violent, and the non-violent ones have a much higher success rate. Even for violent revolutions, most aren't brutal. When there is brutality, it's usually because the pre-existing conditions were already brutal.

Post by Pay08 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

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Sad that you want a return to the Reign of Terror.

Return? We never had a reign of terror. There have been hundreds of peaceful revolutions.