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Yes, they are crooked. If you don't realize this yet you're young or stupid.
by chatterhead 4y ago
Yes, they are crooked. If you don't realize this yet you're young or stupid.
- Bilal_io 4y agoAs long as the people that make the damn laws are allowed to trade, we shouldn't hold federal agents to that standard. Let's start with Congress, and then trickle down to other government employees. And no, they're not crooked, the system that allows for this to happen is.
- chatterhead 4y agoEngaging in unethical activity isn't conduct becoming a US Representative. Using the information you have to profit off the economy at the expense of it's citizens is unethical and immoral. That's what crooked means. Not just corrupt.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoJust because their actions are legal doest not make them not morally reprehensible. I don't care if everyone can insider trade or nobody can but we should at least be consistent about it.
- dsfyu404ed 4y ago>If you don't realize this yet you're young or stupid. Or engaging in an ever-complicated web of motivated reasoning and mental gymnastics in a vain attempt to shore up the falsehoods that underpin their world view. Watching people try and act like these organizations do not harbor evil and malfeasance in quantities that would be outrageous in any other context reminds me of how the "the world is the center of the universe" model had to get more and more complicated to explain away ever increasing observations that seemed to contradict it.