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I find this comment to be very tone-deaf. Are you interested in buying stocks to support Venezuelan companies, or are you purely trying to make a quick buck off of the backs of Venezuelan people trying to prevent their country from being a dictatorship?

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I don't understand, if I think something is going to do well am I not allowed to invest in it? Isn't that the whole point of investing? Where is the misalignment here?

It comes across as crass to profit off a country's turmoil. Happens all the time, but that it's someone's first thought rubs the wrong way.

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