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

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

#181
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Ah enlightened centrism rears its head again. Remember folks: at all points both sides are exactly the same /s.

Everyone knows how the parties are different Its valid to be more annoyed by the ways that they’re the same your cause is not my cause, its better for the viability of your preferred party if you remember that

Its valid to say a lot of things. But it doesn't escape you from having to own those choices.

You are what you'll accept, and you looked at the choices given and said "I'm okay with either one".

Because the consequences of whatever mutual dissatisfaction you had still means one of them gained power and implemented their agenda anyway. And you were okay with that.

You don't get to not make a decision and then pretend you aren't culpable for your inaction.

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

#184

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

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.

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

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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…

> derivative markets will exist up to the divine wrath of god We already bet on the weather.

Which is totally up the gods — or a hairdryer:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/23/hairdryer-or-l...

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

#190

It seems like it would be highly demoralizing to US soldiers that they are prosecuted for betting on the outcomes of the battles they are risking their lives for but those insider trading commanding them aren't.

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.

If you are in Kuwait you will find yourself under rockets whether you knew in advance or not

I think the worse aspect is if the news of an attack being leaked to the defender and you are being blown to bits as their ballistic missiles are not decimated in their preemptive strike.

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