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I dislike crypto, but giving a financial benefit to a certain voting block after your election is not corruption, this is just a digital form of pork barreling.
by armada651 2y ago
I dislike crypto, but giving a financial benefit to a certain voting block after your election is not corruption, this is just a digital form of pork barreling.
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- Calavar 2y agoThat assumes that the main beneficiaries are pro-crypto voters and not a small handful of special interest insider traders.
- azundo 2y ago> World Liberty Financial has received $75 million from Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun. Last week, Trump’s Securities and Exchange Commission, now purged of its Biden-era crypto enforcement team, dropped its fraud case against Sun. This is not just financial benefit for a voting bloc.
- harry8 2y agoNonsense it is absolutely corruption when anyone from any party does it. It may or may not be illegal and whatever lawyers and judges tell us about that it still stinks just as strongly. Third option is that it's absolutely illegal but you won't get a conviction so it passes. Maintain the outrage no matter who and especially if you feel they're on your "team" in the partisan BS.
- spondylosaurus 2y agohttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/14/silicon-valley-the-new-lobbying-monster https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/14/silicon-valley... > Rather, the person familiar with Fairshake said, the goal of the attack campaign was to terrify other politicians—“to warn anyone running for office that, if you are anti-crypto, the industry will come after you.” > “It’s a simple message,” the person familiar with Fairshake said. “If you are pro-crypto, we will help you, and if you are anti we will tear you apart.”