There’s 109 comments on this submission of the news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883108

Congress is protected but soliders arent from profiting. Why are laws so biased?

What an idiot, don't input your real id and don't use own face in KYC. Omfg.

Morally it's ok to steal crypto from these types of markets, everybody is crooked there, client and market makers.

Some things do trickle down.

My respects to a real one, hope it turns out ok

If you destroy the integrity of the professional military corps through destructive and despotic behaviour that drives out those who hold to their principles, soldiers like this are the result of Hegseth’s cultification.

Nobody should be surprised.

Hegseth thinks loyalists + AI as brains can replace decades of actual real-world experience and keeping the highest ethics and morality standards with a bunch of AI-driven baboons with stars on their shoulders.

Paul Krugman wrote a good piece about exactly this. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cultifying-the-us-militar...

Everyone can already feel the ripples of what he is doing. There is an exodus in excellence in the upper echelons of the us military never seen before.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/22/navy-secreta...

The US is getting less safe by the day. You can also see it on tourism data and forecasts. A lot of people don’t feel safe to travel to the US any longer.

Soccer World Cup in the US and 250th anniversary of the USA would have caused a tourism boom with past administrations. But people rather go to China instead.

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/tourist...

I thought the names in the opening were the people being charged. Then I realized they were the prosecutors.

Perfectly fine for the rich and powerful, but don't you average citizen dare do anything like it! The US law and justice system is a complete joke.

Prediction markets working as intended.