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The Strange Morality of the Bay-Area Billionaire Left

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Posted By: Moritz55, 11/21/2022 9:24:06 AM

“Ya. Hehe. I had to be. It’s what reputations are made of, to some extent. I feel bad for those guys who get f—ed by it, by this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shibboleths and so everyone likes us.” —Sam Bankman-Fried The FTX Bitcoin empire of 30-year-old CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is in shambles. Or more specifically, his “dumb game” cryptocurrency exchange has destroyed thousands of lives. Electronically, he may have robbed perhaps a million investors, and along with them hundreds of large institutional investors. Mysteriously, only after the conclusion of the midterm elections, did we suddenly learn that this left-wing “philanthropist”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Bluefindad 11/21/2022 9:37:14 AM (No. 1339111)
Epic VDH! This is a must-read if ever there was one.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: ToryWhite 11/21/2022 9:55:01 AM (No. 1339124)
Yes, Reply 1. This is an exacting, spectacular piece. Hanson just keeps getting better.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: vrb8m 11/21/2022 10:14:28 AM (No. 1339143)
Excellent. Must read.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Krause 11/21/2022 10:20:44 AM (No. 1339147)
Naming names!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MrDeplorable 11/21/2022 10:30:32 AM (No. 1339153)
This is the movie “Office Space” come to life. All that’s missing is Milton looking for his Swingline! Ron Livingston, call the studio. Jennifer, start assembling your 35 pieces of flair.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: czechlist 11/21/2022 10:50:44 AM (No. 1339169)
I still have yellow dog dim kin who believe the dims support the working class. I have a couple of female "catholic" cousins who would vote against Jesus if he didn't support abortion. None are so blind...
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Reply 7 - Posted by: seamusm 11/21/2022 10:54:47 AM (No. 1339174)
Hanson is without peer as a thinker graced by clarity in writing. His writing is never pretentious or needing an advanced degree to understand. And better yet, he stands on the right side of history and political thought.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 11/21/2022 11:02:10 AM (No. 1339178)
I hope he stiffed some wise guys who will come for payback.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Highlander 11/21/2022 12:08:06 PM (No. 1339236)
Great read! Will Bankman go to jail, as did Madoff and Holmes?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: kono 11/21/2022 12:11:06 PM (No. 1339240)
On-target and well-articulated. Not every tech elite fits this pattern; but there are enough of them to make it a legitimate meme. Actual leaders of substance in that world get set upon by the virtue-signalers like a water buffalo being taken down mid-river by a school of piranha. And while some of the compromised elites are on the Right, the vast majority seem to lean heavily to the Left in their own world vision. All in all, tip of the hat to VDH.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Birddog 11/21/2022 12:41:45 PM (No. 1339267)
add to the mix...many of those same billionairee wokesters "business address" is actually in Bidens Delaware, where tax haven rules unique to the state make it similar to a caribean offshore "dirty money/tax evading/criminal class" hideout...."cheating" states and localities of their share of tax revenue.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: bigfatslob 11/21/2022 1:36:09 PM (No. 1339317)
Of late I have seen two good pod cast on YouTube about this character Fried this is the third and VDH is hitting on all corners. These scammers and money stealers have a rich playground of the greedy left and their politics. Yes, someone like Fried was sure to be invented if Sam the scammer hadn't come along. Everyone should read this and save it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: cny 11/21/2022 2:25:58 PM (No. 1339355)
So does this mean that the democrats have found a new way of getting donations by stealing other people's money without them knowing about it?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: lakerman1 11/21/2022 6:41:45 PM (No. 1339498)
Hanson writes in such a way that one can contemplate an extension of his thinking. #13 illustrates that, and I hope to expand on that. Those who read my posts might agree that I am not a conspiracy theory kind of guy. I rarely offer that kind of idea. But I have been thinking about cryptocurrency, this kid in the Bahamas, and political contributions. Let us assume, arguendo, (that means, in Latin, 'for the sake of argument') that there are corporations, hedge funds, cryptocurrency vendors who want to control the direction of government, but don't want their fingerprints on the money. In fact, their boards of directors and stockholders would be really unhappy with such large contributions. Let us further assume that the big money guys are able to find some kid to set up a cryptocurrency operation, plus a hedge fund, plus a trading platform. And they all agree that the operation will funnel dark, dirty money to chosen candidates who will behave the way the money guys want them to behave. The final assumption is that the above described set of operations will intentionally go broke, but the money will have been transferred to the chosen candidates. And the big money guys can promise protection to the kid running the operation- no jail time, no extradition, and a guarantee of a full pardon. (Think Dollar Bill Clinton and the Marc Rich pardon.) How could they guarantee all of that? This is where the Biden Crime Family comes in. They are for sale, Finally, if the above scenario works for the big money guys, what is to stop them from repeating it with a new whiz kid??
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