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He is smart enough to see that barring a miracle, he's heading to prison. He's naive if he thinks that all the bizarre actions he's taken after the collapse (in
by smcl 4y ago
He is smart enough to see that barring a miracle, he's heading to prison. He's naive if he thinks that all the bizarre actions he's taken after the collapse (interviews, tweet threads, substack posts, messaging a witness, you name it) will in any way help him, rather than help sink him.
I don't know what this says about his intelligence overall. My guess is that he's an above-average intelligence guy who is in denial about how his future is outside his control, so he is frantically floundering in a futile attempt to regain control. I think I'd probably feel the same way in that situation, however I'd probably listen to people on my side (lawyers, parents ... or lawyer-parents) if they told me "shut up, stop talking, you're making everything worse"
- 5350-uiop-1130 4y agoyes lets hope justice is served
- pictur 4y agoI find it really funny that everyone on this site takes every joke seriously and writes such long comments.
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- smcl 4y ago"Lol I trolled you into writing a reply" is about as old as internet forums are and it never properly lands, but I’m glad you’re having fun online
- pictur 4y agoThis comment is not a troll comment. I just wanted to express my opinion on the subject. I know what we call a joke is as old as human history, thank you for reminding me
- platehex 4y agoHe’s probably not going to jail for life. That kind of desperation might’ve made sense for say, Ross Ulbricht, but SBF is probably looking at a decade or two of prison. He’s turning what could’ve been a 10-15 year prison sentence into a 20+ one.
- zirgs 4y agoRoss Ulbricht refused a 10 year plea deal. He'd be out of prison by now. Turns out that judges really don't like people who tell bullshit stories to them.
- platehex 4y agoI was unaware but that’s fair, even more credence to my point.
- notch898a 4y agoShould the penalty for upsetting a judge be life minus the 10 years you were already looking at? This just tells me the justice system is fucked.
- Sebb767 4y ago> Should the penalty for upsetting a judge be life minus the 10 years you were already looking at? By that logic, if you're looking at life and upset the judge, you should be let go? > This just tells me the justice system is fucked. It's not. It's based on the moral that people who made a mistake and regret it (or at least plea to change) are less bad than people who did something wrong and continue to refuse to even accept it being something wrong. You can also frame it as them being 'closer' to living a good life and therefore needing less punishment to get them to actually be good, though technically punishments also have the secondary effects of determent and protecting society.
- notch898a 4y ago>By that logic, if you're looking at life and upset the judge, you should be let go? This makes no sense at all. You can't impose much punishment past life; I was never proposing SUBTRACTING time for offending the judge just not adding it. I'm baffled by your logic. I was comparing the above offered differences of life to 10 years, which the difference of the two is life minus 10. >It's based on the moral that people who made a mistake and regret it (or at least plea to change) are less bad than people who did something wrong and continue to refuse to even accept it being something wrong. The law isn't about bad and good though. Growing a pot plant could possibly be "not bad" but still be illegal. Selling a prescription opiate in some circumstances may be "bad" but legal. The law is in essence a description of punishments for behaviors that may or may not have objective connection to good or bad. Also I reject the thesis that 10 years versus something more must make them more "good" and in fact hypothesize it may have the opposite effect. IMO the judge should be objective purveyors of the law. Your 1A opinion to whether your breaking of the law was good or bad should be irrelevent to senencing. If somebody says "fuck the law and I'd be happy to do it again" even regarding events of horrible violence IMO should be first amendment protected speech free from additional punishment. Of course these are mere opinions, and not to suggest yours is wrong.