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From the WSJ:

Mr. Kramer served as a professor and dean at Stanford Law School from 2004 to 2012, according to an online biography. He is currently president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which, according to its website, makes efforts to respond to “pressing and timely problems, such as challenges related to democracy and cybersecurity.”[1]

This individual and his companies defrauded people and then used their stolen money to make donations to politicians in order to buy influence. Doesn't that exactly describe "pressing and timely problems related to democracy"?

[1] https://archive.is/ZbwwS

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Everyone who wants to work in academia has to make one of these types of claims that there work is related to something politically salient. It doesn’t actually mean anything, and anyone with a decent education knows they don’t mean anything. Yes unfortunately a large portion of the population is uneducated and might not understand the meaninglessness of these statements, but this is an educational problem rather than a problem of expectations. Poorly funded schools don’t properly teach what democracy is and how it works - in our modern era, it has nothing to do with the Greeks and is entirely performative.

Wait until you find out what the meme stock people think was going on.

Care to elaborate?

ukraine, biden, etc etc etc

An abbreviated version of the conspiracy theory is that FTX's tokenized stock, which were assumed to be backed 1:1 with actual share holdings, were used to hide some of the extremely large short positions that caused the the short squeeze in January 2021 - the central thesis of the whole shebang being that those positions were never actually closed, just covered by various means that got them off of investors' books.

Watching from the sidelines, I can't decide if it's "scientists warning about climate change" or "homeless guy on the corner holding a 'THE END IS NEAR' sign". It seems impossible that they could be right, but then wacky, Madoff-level stuff like this happens, and I'm like, "Huh, maybe the scale of the brazen criminality that's implied isn't actually too large for reality to abide."

Maybe it was written by a hallucinating chatbot.

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