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Did you also know that his mother founded a democratic superpac that prides itself on being secretive? It seems like this is a really important detail that everyone is overlooking/ignoring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried#Early_life_a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Fried

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/6/21046631/mind-the-gap-si...

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And FTX execs gave a lot of money to Republicans as well. People making this a partisan issue are the real problem.

>“Among the three executives, $57 million was given to Democratic candidates, while $22 million went to Republican candidates,” opensecrets.org details. “Bankman-Fried was the second biggest Democratic-leaning megadonor and Salame was 10th largest Republican donor this election cycle,” the report adds.

https://news.bitcoin.com/ftx-execs-gave-70-million-to-both-d...

I am not being partisan, I am just trying to point out that there is a democratic superpac involved in all of this, and I don't see it being talked about much. I'd like to see everyone involved be investigated thoroughly.

I will admit this is all pretty upsetting to me though. I'm a very left-leaning person, and to see the party that is supposed to represent my values doing this stuff and then everyone making claims along the lines of "well everyone does it" is very disappointing.

I'll make sure to add a "I am not a republican" disclaimer in the future.

PACs - all of them - are a bizarre, corrupt route round campaign finance limits, but the US is stuck with them after Citizens United.

Quite a lot of companies give to both sides. Tech money has been prominent: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/03/american-billionaires-spent-...

There's SBF next to Larry Ellison and Peter Thiel.

Ok great! If they're implicated in this, then by all means, let's go after them. I just can't help but notice a pattern of left-leaning media outlets going really easy on this whole thing because a lot of democrats are implicated as well.

I know this is cliche and I honestly hate saying it, but can you imagine if SBF some guy with two deeply connected republican parents, one of whom founded an explicitly secretive superpac for republicans? Don't you think the reaction would be a bit different?

>because a lot of democrats are implicated as well

Who are implicated?

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