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

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Post by kitsune1 »

sdenton4 wrote: post #471
lukan wrote: post #380

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 Blac…

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

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Post by kodt »

fsckboy wrote: post #490
TSiege wrote: post #462

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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…

it's a blatant double standard if you have evidence of people "doing it and getting away with it", but you don't, you just suspect it. and it's scapegoating if blame is centered on a person or group to explain away the totality of a widespread (or made up) problem, and that is also not happening here, instead "a person did something" and got arrested.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/options/articles/us-senato...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/08/polymarket-...

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

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Post by hx8 »

mpalczewski wrote: post #520
regularization wrote: post #488

Corruption means something legitimate is happening that can be corrupted. Maduro was president of a sovereign country. A bunch of kidnappers and murderers invaded the building he was in in Caracas, murdered everyone in the room, then kidnapped him and his wife. What's the "mission"? To pop up in some room and slaughter everyone in it, then kidnap his wife and him? In order to help steal the resources, billions of dol…

> Maduro was president of a sovereign country. It's funny how we accept the importance given to that statement. when he's just some dude who took control of a country and gave himself that title. As if the social construction means anything in this situation.

The idea of sovereignty is a cornerstone of how we organize our global society. This was an overt statement that the US controls South America, and that South America doesn't rule itself. Previously, we were relaying on covert methods for influence.

The relationship with SA has materially changed.

1. The United States is willing to violate South American sovereignty.

2. South America has offered little resistance to this incident.

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

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Post by JohnMakin »

> “When we identified a user trading on classified government information, we referred the matter to the DOJ & cooperated with their investigation. Insider trading has no place on Polymarket. Today’s arrest is proof the system works.”

Today's arrest is proof that Polymarket may have incentivized a key decision maker in this operation to make decisions in a way that would let him profit. This is peak levels of head up ass arrogance.

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

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Post by freedomben »

trollbridge wrote: post #531
freedomben wrote: post #522

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Thank you, this was my first thought as well. He essentially leaked classified mission info for the purpose of scoring some cash on it. Insider trading in congress is a big problem too, but there are some real differences here.

Such as that Congress can legally do insider trading since they won’t pass a law outlawing it.

Yes, absolutely. It's truly grotesque what they've done (exempting themselves from laws that apply to everyone else).

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

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Post by lukan »

sdenton4 wrote: post #471
lukan wrote: post #380

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 Blac…

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

I did not offer any explanation, I stated that wikipedia does not offer the one that was claimed here.

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

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Post by Pay08 »

rithdmc wrote: post #515
Pay08 wrote: post #503

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Have you seen people?

> You really need to read up on your history. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888542

The suffragette movement was hardly a revolution in the traditional sense.

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Post by lukan »

regularization wrote: post #488

Corruption means something legitimate is happening that can be corrupted. Maduro was president of a sovereign country. A bunch of kidnappers and murderers invaded the building he was in in Caracas, murdered everyone in the room, then kidnapped him and his wife. What's the "mission"? To pop up in some room and slaughter everyone in it, then kidnap his wife and him? In order to help steal the resources, billions of dol…

Well, it was disputed if he really was a legitimate president, but now it is clear, that the US government does not care about that either.
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