There is no such idea implied, if anything I mean to say the opposite. We have to stop looking at things through a narrow political lens.
Whatever noises SBF was making about regulation - what actually appears to have happened is that he was (at best) incompetent and simply playing to whatever audience was listening. Who knows, maybe he even drank his own koolaid. After all he is so virtuous on other matters, surely this would all work out somehow, he is one of the good guys.
His regulators meanwhile (at best) placed undue trust in him for reasons ranging from shared politics and values on various unrelated issues to very large donations vaguely to their benefit. And why shouldn't they, after all he is so virtuous on other matters, surely this would all work out somehow, he is one of the good guys. One of them. And never mind how he got the money for the donations let's not stare a gift horse in the mouth. We can do a lot of good with those donations, after all, we are the good guys.
You don't need to assume a nefarious ruse. No nefarious scheming is actually necessary for any of this. Although since everything is politicized it will be assumed. Has been assumed. And is sort of implied in the discord quote. That is another unfortunate part of the problem. The people who were pointing out the smoke defaulted to harping on the conspiracy aspects because they are more interested in the political affiliation of the wrongdoers than the actual wrongdoing. Inadvertently providing cover for FTX to operate even longer.
In short, a bunch of incestuous wankers feeding into each others delusions and all too willing to look the other way on things they'd never let slide for their political opponents. FTX would never have happened had the founders politics been different, surely you see that.
And I'm sure if this pairing would have been a red instead of blue the same thing would have happened.
Scrutiny seems now to only be reserved for political enemies. Scandals are not swept under the rug unless they are by political allies.
Whatever noises SBF was making about regulation - what actually appears to have happened is that he was (at best) incompetent and simply playing to whatever audience was listening. Who knows, maybe he even drank his own koolaid. After all he is so virtuous on other matters, surely this would all work out somehow, he is one of the good guys.
His regulators meanwhile (at best) placed undue trust in him for reasons ranging from shared politics and values on various unrelated issues to very large donations vaguely to their benefit. And why shouldn't they, after all he is so virtuous on other matters, surely this would all work out somehow, he is one of the good guys. One of them. And never mind how he got the money for the donations let's not stare a gift horse in the mouth. We can do a lot of good with those donations, after all, we are the good guys.
You don't need to assume a nefarious ruse. No nefarious scheming is actually necessary for any of this. Although since everything is politicized it will be assumed. Has been assumed. And is sort of implied in the discord quote. That is another unfortunate part of the problem. The people who were pointing out the smoke defaulted to harping on the conspiracy aspects because they are more interested in the political affiliation of the wrongdoers than the actual wrongdoing. Inadvertently providing cover for FTX to operate even longer.
In short, a bunch of incestuous wankers feeding into each others delusions and all too willing to look the other way on things they'd never let slide for their political opponents. FTX would never have happened had the founders politics been different, surely you see that.
And I'm sure if this pairing would have been a red instead of blue the same thing would have happened.
Scrutiny seems now to only be reserved for political enemies. Scandals are not swept under the rug unless they are by political allies.