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Basically, the wild policy churn we see is designed to enable insider trading profits rather than benefit the country

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 34 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

The problem is not that these wealthy owners and political insiders are doing this ...

... the main problem is an entire country of complacent morons that allow it all to happen, passively support it, casually ignore it, pretend it isn't like that and vote accordingly to put these idiots or idiots like them back into power every single time.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

His followers have been trained to knee jerk it away.

If you ask them about it, they will just say “well pelosi made trades” etc

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

If you ask them about it, they will just say “well pelosi made trades” etc

You are correct of course. And the answer people with two braincells would give is

"Good we both agree its wrong, so let's hold them to account"

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 33 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Here are the complacent morons in which you refer:

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 12 hours ago

I still can't get over the amount of open public support he gets from people in the US. It's like we are so fucking lazy that we just absorb whatever propaganda is blinking in front of us at the time.

Or maybe that's what I'm hoping is the case for most people rather than being well-informed true believers.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 6 points 15 hours ago

They just want their team to win, even if it means they personally suffer.