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>“I donated to both parties. I donated about the same amount to both parties,” Bankman-Fried told the crypto commentator and citizen journalist Tiffany Fong. >

>“I donated to both parties. I donated about the same amount to both parties,” Bankman-Fried told the crypto commentator and citizen journalist Tiffany Fong. >“All my Republican donations were dark,” he said, referring to political donations that are not publicly disclosed. “The reason was not for regulatory reasons, it’s because reporters freak the fuck out if you donate to Republicans. They’re all super liberal, and I didn’t want to have that fight.” Well, that's brazenly honest, I guess.

benzible 4y ago
So, take the massive fraudster at his word when he supports your pre-existing beliefs? Do you also believe that parties interested in supplying billions in funding contacted him just after he signed the bankruptcy paperwork, as he's also recently claimed?
jerkstate 4y ago
he says he made donations based on covid policies. which republicans had covid policies that he would have agreed with? honestly this sounds like deflection, why should we believe it without any evidence?
- ulfw 4y ago
  Maybe he liked horse dewormer or UV blasting people's insides or drinking bleach?
  - _aavaa_ 4y ago
    The UV blasting is an actual medical treatment that has been worked on for a while before that tweet… https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-experimental-ultraviolet-light-treatment-for-covid-19-takes-political-heat-11588005938 https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-experimental-ultraviolet-lig...
    - jerkstate 4y ago
      so is using disinfectant inside the body, almost a cleaning: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8026810/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8026810/
- chitowneats 4y ago
  Exactly. Let's see the receipts. This man is the biggest fraud in a generation. How can anyone quote him credulously after everything that's happened?
throwawaylinux 4y ago
Do you believe it is honest because it's something you want to hear? This is the single fundamental concept that con artistry boils down to. Whenever anybody says "<something you want to hear>, I can't show you but trust me," the reaction shouldn't be to marvel at their honesty, it should be to smell bullshit and ask yourself what their angle is. I mean even when they're not a known conman and liar who just fleeced people out of billions of dollars. I feel this should go without saying but there are an incredible amount of people still lining up to believe this clown for some reason.

benzible 4y ago

So, take the massive fraudster at his word when he supports your pre-existing beliefs? Do you also believe that parties interested in supplying billions in funding contacted him just after he signed the bankruptcy paperwork, as he's also recently claimed?

jerkstate 4y ago

he says he made donations based on covid policies. which republicans had covid policies that he would have agreed with? honestly this sounds like deflection, why should we believe it without any evidence?

ulfw 4y ago
Maybe he liked horse dewormer or UV blasting people's insides or drinking bleach?
- _aavaa_ 4y ago
  The UV blasting is an actual medical treatment that has been worked on for a while before that tweet… https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-experimental-ultraviolet-light-treatment-for-covid-19-takes-political-heat-11588005938 https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-experimental-ultraviolet-lig...
  - jerkstate 4y ago
    so is using disinfectant inside the body, almost a cleaning: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8026810/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8026810/
chitowneats 4y ago
Exactly. Let's see the receipts. This man is the biggest fraud in a generation. How can anyone quote him credulously after everything that's happened?

throwawaylinux 4y ago

Do you believe it is honest because it's something you want to hear? This is the single fundamental concept that con artistry boils down to. Whenever anybody says "<something you want to hear>, I can't show you but trust me," the reaction shouldn't be to marvel at their honesty, it should be to smell bullshit and ask yourself what their angle is. I mean even when they're not a known conman and liar who just fleeced people out of billions of dollars. I feel this should go without saying but there are an incredible amount of people still lining up to believe this clown for some reason.