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The FTX scam, Sam Bankman-Fried, the Clintons and the Democrats

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by AroundTheWorld, Nov 13, 2022.

  1. AroundTheWorld

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    What exactly does this have to do with the Clintons and Democrats exactly?
     
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    1.4/ 10
     
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    Yule C
     
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    I am familiar with this video, it does not answer my question.

    I also read your original twitter thread, also only passingly mentions Democrats and nothing about the Clintons.

    ????
     
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    You will find out on this thread.
     
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    Oh I get it.

    Is this supposed to be the general thread where a bunch of bombshells are going to drop painting a picture of massive corruption within the Democratic deep state that culminates in the fall of FTX?
     
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    You can start here.



    More details to emerge.
     
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    I dunno man, I am still waiting to "Yule C" on the nefarious bkack hats from the Nunes Memo and the Durham Investigation Bomshells.

    I'm beginning to think it may have, in fact, all been bullshit.
     
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    Lots of smoke.
    Fire.
     
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    If you think it is perfectly normal that a "random" barely 30 year old kid gets to pull off this heist and influence SEC regulation...well.
     
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    What does the SEC have to do with a private company?

    -edit - Don't even really know anything about this company other than some recent light reading. Props on the Orgy cult and Bahama real estate though, thats way better than my 30s....lol

    What is familiar here is the style of these twitter threads implying some deep conspiracy, but not actually laying out what the actual impropriety is. These frequently seem to crash and burn pretty quickly, but hey you never know.
     
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    Are you 5 years old?
     
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    lol you have no idea do you.

    Prediction - you can't answer the question and will just teeter around trying to defer and deflect.
     
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    Your question is one of the dumbest things posted on this BBS, ever.

    Especially since I literally just posted an article addressing it, above your post. I could explain it to you like you are 5 years old - or you read the article.

    You just want to derail the thread by asking idiotic questions. I don't care.

    It's actually a fascinating topic and will become the subject of movies, just like the Theranos story. So you can ask idiotic questions all you want, but there will be updates posted to this thread.
     
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    I don’t know bout connections to the Clintons but as someone who isn’t into crypto I had heard a little about Bankman Frieda involve the with a movement called “Effective Altruism” which is the idea that altruism should be less about feel good projects like saving Pandas but more into more longterm efforts such as preserving habitat for many plants and animals.

    One of the most controversial actions of EA was encouraging promising people from going into directly into altruism but instead going into things like finance and making a lot of money with the intention of donating most of it. Part of that was willing to live very spartan. Sort of an anti Wolf or Wall Street. Bankman-Fried was one of the early converts and was convinced by William McAskill the Guru of EA to go into crypto instead of directly into a non profit.

    With the collapse of FTX there is a lot of questions about the financial stability of some foundations that FTX had been funding and possibly the whole EA movement.

    I’m on my phone but here is a link to an article from the NYT. When I have time I’ll try to post excerpts for those who can’t get past the pay wall.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/business/ftx-effective-altruism.html
     
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