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Just FYI. SBF will next week speak at New York Time conference, together with Mark Zuckerberg, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mike Pence, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben Affleck, Eric Adams, and others. And yeah he is apparently still coming. https://www.nytimes.com/events/dealbook-summit#speakers https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1595512579417378837?cxt=H...
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> an international ponzi scheme involving politicians and journalists We have no evidence any politicians or journalists were compromised. (Journalists at no-name outlets writing puff pieces is unfortunately banal.) That makes this a crypto story, and one whose victims are particularly unsympathetic at that. Those have a niche. But they aren’t mainstream.
Politicians were involved through donations. Whether to call that "compromised" is left as an exercise to the reader.
Plenty of people hopelessly throw money at politicians. Most get no remuneration. Again, there is a paranoid subculture that assumes every donation brings legislative power, and for them, this is a relevant story. Most do not because, in most cases, it does not.
Of course they are, when you or I steal 1000$ we go to prison, when a Bankman steals billions of dollars they make a series to tell you how it was a mistake and he only had good intentions and the fact he donated tens of millions to the president's campaign and even donated to those investigating him right now, is purely a coincidence and has nothing to do with him not going to prison.
Maybe wait a little while? I feel like we don't even know 10% of what's likely to come out over the course of the next year.
There are narrative solutions to this. For example, telling the tale from the perspective of a fictional low-level employee. They start out with the narrative we were all fed. And then gradually discover the truth. (Whether they get corrupted or turn whistleblower would be a stylistic choice, though it’s telling no FTX employee blew any whistles.)
Just FYI. SBF will next week speak at New York Time conference, together with Mark Zuckerberg, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mike Pence, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben Affleck, Eric Adams, and others. And yeah he is apparently still coming. https://www.nytimes.com/events/dealbook-summit#speakers https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1595512579417378837?cxt=H...
Is this real? Even zelensky!??
Of course they are, when you or I steal 1000$ we go to prison, when a Bankman steals billions of dollars they make a series to tell you how it was a mistake and he only had good intentions and the fact he donated tens of millions to the president's campaign and even donated to those investigating him right now, is purely a coincidence and has nothing to do with him not going to prison.
Hopefully they're properly negative on SBF as opposed to the mainstream media that seems to be still effusing his praise or at least being neutral. Also there's still the criminal charges to come after this. I don't really understand why he's not already in prison.
The wheels of the law grind slowly. Look at Elizabeth Holmes. The WSJ article that started her downfall came out in 2015. And she's still walking around free (for now).
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Politicians were involved through donations. Whether to call that "compromised" is left as an exercise to the reader.
> Politicians were involved through donations. Whether to call that "compromised" is left as an exercise to the reader. Plenty of people hopelessly throw money at politicians. Most get no remuneration. Again, there is a paranoid subculture that assumes every donation brings legislative power, and for them, this is a relevant story. Most do not because, in most cases, it does not.
Those people throw tens or hundreds of dollars. Not tens of millions of dollars. Big difference.
> Again, there is a paranoid subculture that assumes every donation brings legislative power
No I don't believe the $3 Bernie was asking for would bring any legislative power but $30,000,000?