• theneverfox@pawb.social
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    11 hours ago

    Woah, woah, don’t start spreading misinfo. It’s someone else’s money they’re protecting, for pennies on the dollar. Buying politicians is a great ROI

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      2 hours ago

      Shrug. In some cases, it might be both, since our legislators can straight up do insider trading, apparently.

      I know of people that, because of companies they work for that involve trading, they have to either link all brokerage accounts to systems that are for compliance reasons, or submit all info on the regular to these compliance teams every quarter.

      And what do you think happens if any suspicious anomalies are found for these plebes? Is that information turned over to regulatory bodies? You bet it is. But if you are a politician…

      But yes. Elon is a prime example. He spent millions on donvict, and already the return is apparently billions. So yeah, orders of power more return on buying politicians.