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Re: Bitcoin Whale Shorted $1.1B Right Before Tariffs

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Post by blooalien » Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 12:10 PM UTC

billy99k wrote: post #13

wredcoll wrote: post #11

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It is genuinely amazing how fast it feels like it happened. The whole monica lewisnky thing happened because there was an investigation into Clinton making maybe 100k off a partnership with a guy who later got arrested. Granted that was over 20 years ago now, but like, hillarys emails???

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> ... "the added cherry from the 'security' community saying that hosting your own email server for confidental emails is no big deal."

Literally nobody (sane) in the security community would ever say that. On the contrary, they'll tell you that running your own email server for any reason is a whole can of worms that nobody wants to mess with, and if you give them twenty minutes of your time to listen intently, they'll list you a whole laundry-list of reasons why.

Re: Bitcoin Whale Shorted $1.1B Right Before Tariffs

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Post by wredcoll » Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 3:04 PM UTC

blooalien wrote: post #51

billy99k wrote: post #13

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> ... "the added cherry from the 'security' community saying that hosting your own email server for confidental emails is no big deal." Literally nobody (sane) in the security community would ever say that. On the contrary, they'll tell you that running your own email server for any reason is a whole can of worms that nobody wants to mess with, and if you give them twenty minutes of your time to listen intently, they…

Note how he switched from the word "classified" to "confidential". A bit of a different meaning there.

Re: Bitcoin Whale Shorted $1.1B Right Before Tariffs

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Post by wredcoll » Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 3:06 PM UTC

estearum wrote: post #18

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #15

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Regular people get charged for that level of violating regulations around classified information. They also get charged for having classified information in their bathroom or in their garage.

Yeah agreed. I'm not sure any civilian politician would really be charged for that type of violation though. Would've been nice if the DNC apparatus didn't downplay as if it didn't matter at all though: it does! Note that this is actually quite different from the Mar-a-Lago case where Trump was asked to return documents, he said he did, then said he didn't have them, then asked people "what if we just said we didn't…

> Would've been nice if the DNC apparatus didn't downplay as if it didn't matter at all though: it does

How exactly are you supposed to respond to the republican weaponization of the investigatory process for partisan political gain?

In the grand scheme of things, it really actually was not a "big deal".