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| ▲ | gritspants 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I am bothered by the fact that many people have just resigned themselves to this state of affairs. Rather they're leaning in to this behavior themselves in small doses, incrementally, believing that having integrity is for suckers. |
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| ▲ | Bratmon 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | So what's your suggestion, enlightened one? | | |
| ▲ | gritspants 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | I understand the sarcasm. One thing I liked was the NYT's recent interview with (former General) McChrystal, who suggested making some form of service mandatory, not necessarily military but teaching, charity, and public works. I don't believe these issues can be solved at the macro level. The US has many crumbling institutions and they are still ripe for the taking. Participate in volunteer events, the local FD, join the local Masons, or similar. Engage with people directly, locally, even or especially with people who you assume hate you (they probably don't). |
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| ▲ | smokedetector1 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| this is such an unserious take. Insider trading is prevalent on both sides. But the brazen daily market manipulation done by this administration is different. If you dont see that you are willingly blind |
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| ▲ | Bratmon 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Okay enlighten me: Why is it good when Democrats insider trade but bad when Republicans take the exact same trades? | | |
| ▲ | acdha 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | It’s not different because of who’s doing it but due to scale: creating news which steers markets is worse than trading based on insider information, and there’s a scale question as well (billions versus millions). I want them both prosecuted but in terms of priorities I’d favor the police going after armed robbers over porch thieves. | | |
| ▲ | whamlastxmas 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think this sort of thinking is why we have people who continue to vote against their own self interests. The fact is we really don't have enough information to make meaningful conclusions about which party is causing more harm with insider trading. It would take a team of accountants and lawyers years to confidently measure this. A random individual isn't going to assess this well. But because people confidently draw often incorrect or baseless conclusions based on vibes and what largely democrat controlled corporate news media tells them, they're going to fall into us versus them mentality at party lines instead of better understanding that both sides are screwing us over tremendously and not accepting a perceived lesser evil | | |
| ▲ | mrbombastic 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes of course we are all brainwashed by the famously democrat controlled media at _the Wall Street Journal_ which is owned by prominent leftist Rupert Murdoch. bro you are being robbed in broad daylight. | |
| ▲ | acdha 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > what largely democrat controlled corporate news media tells them If you believe this, ask why and which side benefits from you being so misinformed. There’s a reason why the right-wing spends billions of dollars and encouraging people to blame “both sides” is a key part of it. | |
| ▲ | smokedetector1 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I am not a fan of the democrats - I think they are corrupt and have in many cases given up on being democratic, totally beholden to their donors. That said, Trump is unbelievably obviously corrupt and doing immense, immediate, and obvious damage to the country in pursuit of personal enrichment. If you dont see this you are willingly blind. | |
| ▲ | cdelsolar 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | oh yeah sure, they're both equally bad. aha |
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| ▲ | jumpkick 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Since you've drawn the comparison, it's worth pointing out that a notable difference is that Nancy Pelosi was not (nor was running to be) POTUS and could not have unilaterally gotten the US into a war in the middle east. |
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| ▲ | filoeleven 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Amusingly enough, she was Speaker of the House, which means at one point she had more legitimate power to enact war than Trump ever has. The Congress must first vote to declare war, and only then can the President sign and execute it. Legitimately. |
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| ▲ | trigvi 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| To reduce the insider trading's attack surface, we should first reduce the things a govt can control or legislate on. |
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| ▲ | Bratmon 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | Do you have more specifics on that? Because unless you plan to abolish the military, it doesn't really seem relevant to this incident. |
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| ▲ | KK7NIL 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| No idea why you're getting downvoted, this is absolutely true. The people have lost faith in both parties, we now expect our leaders to be cronies. |
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| ▲ | lepset 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | People just don't like the "both sides are the same" clownery anymore. It's not true and will never be true. | | |
| ▲ | Bratmon 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | So are you asserting that Nancy Pelosi wasn't insider trading when her party was in power? | | |
| ▲ | orwin 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think he is asserting she never created a policy, tweeted or manufactured a war for her insider trading: it was purely opportunistic. | |
| ▲ | lepset 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yes I am asserting that, there is no proven evidence she was. Congressional stock trading is legal. | | |
| ▲ | KK7NIL 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | There's no "proven evidence" (whatever that means) that people in the Trump administration are insider trading either, yet we can see some very suspicious ripples in the market. Pelosi was even more obvious as we know all of her trades, their timing and her outrageous outperformance during that period. | | |
| ▲ | lepset 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Trump is out here running crypto rug pull grifts as the president to enrich himself and his family while holding office. This hand wringing about Nancy Pelosi is just slopulism. She just invested in SF tech companies and they happened to do well. |
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| ▲ | tmountain 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You’re complaining about the buffet while the titanic is going down. |
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