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It is a fucking conspiracy. fed is run by the banks, banks didn't want fed to intervene bc they were making big bonuses and it was good for the people there. du

by anonjon 16y ago

It is a fucking conspiracy. fed is run by the banks, banks didn't want fed to intervene bc they were making big bonuses and it was good for the people there. duh. This is an obvious case of corruption of our government. No one was regulating because they didn't want to regulate it. This is why there needs to be things like campaign finance reform and people should seriously go to jail without chance of being pardoned for these types of crimes. Willful ignorance of this shit should have been considered aiding & abetting theft. But no, no one will go to jail because the rich and powerful never go to jail. They didn't get rich and powerful by not being corrupt.

anonjon 16y ago
go fuck yourself guy who down-voted me, you are part of the willful ignorance. Greenspan was a goddamned Rayndian. Stephen Friedman had super strong ties to goldman sachs, In fact, almost everyone high up in the fed has ties to banking in one form or another. None of the people involved are even interested fair in regulation. I don't understand why this is controversial. it is a fucking conspiracy and I'm calling it as it is. Would my post have been better if I had suggested execution, or is the real reason it is downvoted because it is unpopular to call something a conspiracy? we all tell ourselves these fairy tales about how the world is fair and there are no conspiracies and closed door deals between those in power, but it is all a lie.
- mcantor 16y ago
  Dude. What in the history of Hacker News would make you possibly believe that a post starting with "It's a fucking conspiracy" in earnest would do anything except get brutally downvoted?
rms 16y ago
Yes, there is always some conspiracy, but calling it a conspiracy is not nearly enough to actually explain the situation and your gut reaction is lowering the quality of conversation. Also the threat of jail is not enough to fix the problem.

by anonjon 16y ago

anonjon 16y ago

go fuck yourself guy who down-voted me, you are part of the willful ignorance. Greenspan was a goddamned Rayndian. Stephen Friedman had super strong ties to goldman sachs, In fact, almost everyone high up in the fed has ties to banking in one form or another. None of the people involved are even interested fair in regulation. I don't understand why this is controversial. it is a fucking conspiracy and I'm calling it as it is. Would my post have been better if I had suggested execution, or is the real reason it is downvoted because it is unpopular to call something a conspiracy? we all tell ourselves these fairy tales about how the world is fair and there are no conspiracies and closed door deals between those in power, but it is all a lie.

mcantor 16y ago
Dude. What in the history of Hacker News would make you possibly believe that a post starting with "It's a fucking conspiracy" in earnest would do anything except get brutally downvoted?

rms 16y ago

Yes, there is always some conspiracy, but calling it a conspiracy is not nearly enough to actually explain the situation and your gut reaction is lowering the quality of conversation. Also the threat of jail is not enough to fix the problem.