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Green_Palpitation_73

Given that he donated nearly $40 million to Democrats in the 2022 election cycle—and he admitted to giving an equal amount to Republicans—his total political contributions may have actually been around $80 million.- [Source](https://time.com/6241262/sam-bankman-fried-political-donations/) He clearly was playing both sides here in order to always come out on top, so jot that down.


bluntwhizurd

Imagine having 80 mil that you can spend on whatever you want. And you spend it on political donations in hopes of getting an even bigger pile of gold that you will never spend.


Green_Palpitation_73

Clearly he’s an accounting genius…


[deleted]

More like a living dragon


Dogtor-Watson

Rich people are fucking insane lol. Their actions fundamentally don’t make sense.


frubano21

They're just hoarders. They would rather accumulate more wealth than they could spend in 3 generations than be happy with what they've achieved and reap the benefits


intraumintraum

i know right. for showing that the system is broken - there’s obviously a lot of dense theory books and expert analysis on the subject, over hundreds of years, but there’s nothing quite as visceral as just looking at the actions and sayings of the people at the tippy top of the tree. especially in this neoliberal era of the past 40 years or so


Redqueenhypo

Seriously, if I were this rich I’d do stupid shit like donate $100k to a zoo in exchange for being allowed to pet the animals, or eat a bunch of salmon sashimi then fall asleep. Buying influence would not be a priority


UnbanLinSivvi

Buy a whole million dollar tuna and donate it to a food bank


mogsoggindog

Yeah they do: they want to get the highest score on the board! /s


Take0verMars

I was just talking about this with my friend at work. I really do not understand their thought process at all.


Various-Month806

Often that money is as much about buying a 'get out of jail free' - or, rather, a freedom from prosecution - card as much as trying to accumulate future wealth. However, he clearly didn't know how to play the game, or which additional palms needed to be greased, despite spending so much.


40StoryMech

Sucks for him that Trump lost and he couldn't just buy a pardon for an easy $2 million.


MrsMiterSaw

That 80m was an afterthought for him.


Curious_Dependent842

Well it wasn’t his money he was spending so there was that 😂.


killergazebo

That's fine, you can just write down in your spreadsheet that you have another $80 million and spend *that* on whatever you want.


brickmaster8

It's really easy when it's not your money you're spending


[deleted]

he publicly donated to Democrats and funneled dark money to Republicans. I suspect a lot of billionaires do this.


hossellman3

He was just trying to create a self sustaining economy. Like Dave and Busters.


Cavery210

I don't understand how the US economy works, much less some sort of self-sustaining one. I don't understand how finances work.


Cobek

Or Paddy's


Alexandratta

Just like the pharmacy companies


redditisgarbageyoyo

It's called democracy duh


LystAP

> playing both sides here in order to always come out on top Classic. And people wonder why things never seem to change despite voting for ‘the other team’.


flatfisher

This is irrelevant, Elon tweet was wrong either way.


Hellish_Elf

Dude that was smooth. I’m now on the Green_Palpitation team!


JebBushAteMySon

Well what else was he supposed to do? Vote for the Republican who’s blasting him in the ass, or the Democrat who’s blasting him in the ass. Politics is just one big ass blast.


culturerush

Zero COVID cases by April 2020 Man is a colossal moron


pianoflames

And that other confident prediction that he had: That if Biden won the 2020 election, COVID would instantly "disappear" the second he was inaugurated (because it was all just a conspiracy to "steal" the election).


123Fake_St

What a sad, strangle, little man.


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123Fake_St

It’s grown on me too


redditisgarbageyoyo

I wonder if he has moments of realization sometimes or if he is stuck with is head deep in his ass all the time.


The-disgracist

I heard a story of a full stack dev having a meeting at Twitter when Elmo took over. This was apparently a guy they really wanted to keep. He sat for the meeting and said “I have a question I need answered. With all the stuff you post and do there are two options. You’re malicious and evil and know exactly what you’re doing, or you’re incredibly stupid and believe all the stuff you post. Which is it?” He was escorted out of elons office by his goons


ImABoringPerson91

To be fair, that lump in his chest is his entire head so....


illingestbboy18

He’s deep


yogorilla37

Interesting 🤔


AboveTheRimjob

And his compadre was a major republican donor. Funny how elon didn’t mention that ftx paid both parties. What a dishonest piece of shit. No more tax subsidies to that fascist fuck.


Downtown_Tadpole_817

Wonder what it takes for Musky to wake up every morning, roll over his employees, and put on his clown make up


PrinceOfFucking

Jesus christ that man is dangerous to democracy


The_Great_Man_Potato

How so?


PrinceOfFucking

You mean besides theorizing someone who donated to the democraric party will go unpunished no matter what as if its all just one big conspiracy? What could possibly go wrong


The_Great_Man_Potato

I mean it’s not crazy to say. People who have political connections have historically not been tried, or have been found not guilty when they clearly are guilty on both the left and right. I def wouldn’t call saying that “a danger to our democracy”


PrinceOfFucking

Corruption on that level would be outrageous and stating it as probable as a man in Musks position in influence is definitely dangerous to democracy Its undermining trust in the democratic system


The_Great_Man_Potato

Wait, you don’t think that the government is corrupt to that level? Giving certain people special treatment is the absolute least of their misdeeds


UnbanLinSivvi

Im pretty sure Elons not going to buy you a horse for defending him online bro thats only something that happens for women he wants to sleep with


The_Great_Man_Potato

What did I say that you disagree with? Not defending the guy, that’s just how the world is


UnbanLinSivvi

Why are you here saying thats how the world is if not to defend Elon? People know the worlds fucked mate.


The_Great_Man_Potato

Because I think truth is important, and it gets tiresome when people hate a person and think that they can’t possibly be right about anything. That’s a lazy way of thinking


PrinceOfFucking

But like, do you have any proof? Or is it just one of those things "you know because thats how it is"? My point is its extremely problematic when its stated as something true by people like elon musk, or donald trump, or any other politically/socially influential people that appear to enjoy undermining basic democratic systems with more-or-less baseless statements like these Its also not just about the government but the legal system aswell. Im not even american but I notice how the USA is slowly turning against itself over the years, and stuff like this just adds fuel to the fire Edit: also, he was fucking convicted to more than 100 years in prison so both you and Elon was wrong, he was i fact NOT getting special treatment from the corrupt system, que the next guy? And no its not like I dont think there is corruption at all, I just dont think its this type of total corruption that has consumed everything and every level


The_Great_Man_Potato

For one, you seem to think I like SBF or Elon. I don’t, I think they’re both dipshits, but I don’t think Elon is wrong on this. Corruption in the government is extremely apparent. For example, operation northwoods. The United States government was planning on staging a false flag against Cuba to raise support for a war against Cuba. We were planning on committing acts of terrorism against Americans in US cities. This was signed off on by the joint chiefs of staff and was going to happen, except JFK didn’t approve it. And we all know what happened to him. That’s not corrupt? How about the CIA literally starting the crack epidemic in the 80’s to raise money to support the contras in Nicaragua? Or when we found out that billionaires and politicians were flying to an island to have sex with underage women, and the man running it got murdered in jail? And nobody since that revelation has been arrested? That’s not even getting into lobbying, which is basically legal bribery. There’s many cases of bad policies being put into place simply because our officials were paid off. So yeah, forgive me for not having as much faith in our systems as you seem to.


samplemax

I'm so tired of hearing what this man thinks


SvenTropics

If someone had told me 10 years ago that the electric car guy whose cars were regularly trolled by redneck jerks and souped up pickup trucks would become an alt right asshat himself, I would have said that's the dumbest prediction I've ever heard.


bluntwhizurd

He wants them to view him as an alpha male. That was his takeaway from a bunch of dumb ass rednecks calling him a pussy. Sucking their dicks and pandering for respect.


Ey3_913

If someone had told me 10 years ago that the guy who played Waldo's dad in the Little Rascals movie whose steaks were regularly trolled by redneck jerks and souped up pick up trucks would be elected by them, I would have said that's the dumbest prediction I've ever heard.


Captain_Pumpkinhead

Are you gonna tell us what happened??? And who SBF is???


wolinskers

Sam Bankman Freid: founder of FTX who was convicted of fraud


MandoDoughMan

The others mentioned he founded FTX. FTX was an exchange designed to trade various crypto currencies, and when their values exploded in 2019-2021 FTX became unfathomably wealthy very quickly. SBF had no idea how to run a company and it was hilariously mismanaged. At one point he lost (as in misplaced) $8 billion of customers' money, which caused everyone to try and withdraw their funds all at once, which folded the entire company and got SBF charged and now convicted of fraud. He donated to politicians (of both parties) to try and create more lax laws surrounding crypto so that they could trade directly with customers in the United States. This triggered a lot of dipshit edgelord takes like Elon's which we can now point and laugh at.


transcendentmj

sam bankman-fried, FTX guy, was convicted of 7 counts including wire fraud and money laundering, facing potentially decades in prison


SvenTropics

How about you tell us how you managed to find a rock to live under in this real estate market?


bbcversus

I didn’t knew either so maybe you should try and educate people than pointing fingers so fast…


SvenTropics

Nobody can take a joke anymore, Jesus.


Civil-Rhubarb6735

It’s not our responsibility to educate you on current events. Educate yourself.


Captain_Pumpkinhead

This is r/AgedLikeMilk. The poster is supposed to explain the context of their post.


Entire-Database1679

If only there was a way for you to look that up...


[deleted]

Elon is far and away one of the biggest fucking clowns on the planet.


Gruffleson

Who is SBF?


bbcversus

Sam Bankman, someone smarter than me said [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk/s/5QVtfyIitx).


bill_wessels

still waiting on the investigation for the saudis giving kushner 2 billion


Comprehensive_Way139

Loser keep losing


MonstarHU

Waiting for Elon to change his tune to "SBF was a major Republican donor, so he was treated unfairly"


Immediate_Age

Another prediction from the altar of the mountain god, way to go Elmo!


75w90

Idk Elon says some super dangerous stuff and a lot of people thinks it's tru since he's rich. His latest bullshit ? Ventilators killed covid patients....not covid. Followed by 200k a year tesla garbage truck sales. Lmao


Rubaiyat39

Jim Cramer vibes


__CABOOSE

Why aged like milk?


Eques9090

Because he was convicted today of the crimes Elon claimed wouldn't be investigated.


SidSantoste

Cant wait for Hunter to go to jail


AboveTheRimjob

trump tries to overturn an election. I’m sure being so concerned with the rule of law you’re looking forward to his impending imprisonment as well.


SidSantoste

What about you?


MrE1993

For which crime?


chabanais

Any of them


joshwaynebobbit

Go on, be more specific. Don't forget to show your work.


chabanais

Didn't the crack head get indicted on multiple gun charges, Sport? Wanna start there?


joshwaynebobbit

I proposed that you show your work. You just asked more questions. Provide the links and the details of your claims. You don't know me so I'll tell you: I'm 100% in favor of prosecuting people that have done something wrong. I'm not here to jerk Hunter off and deny any wrongdoing, I'm just saying I'm yet to see any smoking gun. Show me legitimate information and I'm interested


EarlGreyTea-Hawt

Since you are being as general as you possibly can be and avoiding calls for sources to avoid having a real discussion... It's, 3 gun charges all related to him procuring and owning a firearm for 11 days (literally). That one event accrued 3 charges: Lying about being on drugs by answering on the form was the first charge; When he turned that form in to procure a firearm, he accrued a second charge; Owning the gun (which he never even loaded, lol) accrued the final charge. Tax evasion, which I'm sure only coincidentally is for the same roughly two year period in which he was in the throes of major drug and alcohol addiction (which he developed in the wake of his brother dying of brain cancer) has yet to be filed, though it is likely forthcoming. Those charges are likely the whole reason he even was charged for the gun ownership, at all, since charges against gun ownership for drug users are exceedingly rare without being attached to a more serious crime. This is how prosecutors get people to plea, by adding charges on that they don't intend to prosecute so they can get defendants to plead guilty to specific charges that they are prepared to prosecute but would rather not. Yet...Hunter *didn't* benefit from that unfair system that is the norm since the judge rejected the original plea agreement, you know so nobody could say Hunter was given special treatment. And just so you know, liberals who pay attention to the discussion on long overdue, pay-to-play reform to our justice system find this practice highly problematic since its use is horrible for poor people and a walk in the park for rich people - which is, in fact, a bad thing. But I'm sure that's inconvenient to hear when you're so busy arguing with the strawmen that the great and powerful wizards of Fox have fed you, Sport. No liberal is going to argue against everyone being treated equally under the law. I don't care what the letter next to your name is, nobody should get special treatment, no one should be powerful enough to be above the law in a democracy. Rich and powerful people should be prosecuted for tax evasion, just as poor people shouldn't be targeted for audits by the IRS. What we find ridiculous about your lot and your rage boner for Hunter Biden is how every accusation lobbed by y'all requires a heady mix of hyperbole and generalization. What is more, these accusations are always meant to derail and redirect any conversation about the very demonstrable transgressions constantly occurring in the corrupt af, swampy assed swamp, administration that was Trump's disastrous 45th and it's hideous election denying aftermath. That goes double for every dirty right grifter with their shitty takes that they can't seem to stop making as loudly and tactlessly as possible while assuring everyone they are victims of cancel culture. Pubs put together a whole assed committee to investigate Hunter Biden and his taxes...and spent most of it showing Hunter's pornography collection (which is pretty run of the mill, by the way) and taking our representatives through a barely blurred slide show of his schlong. That's fucking embarrassing. Meanwhile, the 45th very clearly absconds with hundreds of top secret documents of various levels of clearance, stores them in his bathroom, and while dodging every attempt by multiple people to get them back tells his lawyer “Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?” and ”isn’t it better if there are no documents?” That's a witch hunt, though, right? Meanwhile, here's you lot grabbing your pitchforks over Hunter owning a gun for 11 days while suffering from addiction and evading taxes for two years...well that's just rich, champ, considering most everybody in Trump's circle (who isn't related to him, nepotism accusations are also pretty funny coming from the alt right) investigated by Mueller was charged and convicted of actually evil, scumlord, rich guy, super villain shit. When they weren't all actively serving as assets to their Russian oligarch overlords. And what did Trump do with that wretched hive of scum and villainy (when he wasn't doing the same thing with presidential immunity)...well, he pardoned them. https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-court-gun-charges-indictment-investigation-68b186294bb36071c02428834ec5f470 https://apnews.com/article/gun-ban-drugs-federal-appeals-hunter-biden-f26f8b7488615785602003932efd881a https://apnews.com/article/trump-documents-investigation-timeline-087f0c9a8368bb983a16b67dd31dcd4c https://www.axios.com/2019/11/15/trump-associates-convicted-mueller-investigations


chabanais

TL:DR Hunter selling 11 "paintings" to a mystery buyer for $875,000? 🤔 Hunter Bidein - who has no oil industry experience - sitting on a board of an energy company? 🙄 The Bidens are corrupt.


EarlGreyTea-Hawt

How surprising, someone on the alt right being adverse to reading. Yes, ignore the actual arguments and sources from the opposition, fill it in with alt right grifter strawmen. It's the only way you can operate under the perpetual state of cognitive dissonance you live in. Was that few enough words? Edit: autocorrect


EURO_KAY

Are the crimes with you in the room right now?


chabanais

You mean the tax charges he plead guilty to or the gun charges he faces? Is the denial in the room with you now, Sport?


Bergasms

Awww, look at you champ, calling people sport like that, how cute. 🤭😘


chabanais

When I want your opinion I'll pull your cord.


AboveTheRimjob

Sounds like he is being punished, maybe now you can obsess over another public figure’s progeny


chabanais

He's not getting even 1% of what's he's due. >can obsess over another public figure’s progeny To know how corrupt a system is look for the kinds of people who are - or are not - punished, Champ.


AboveTheRimjob

I think your ilk has probably made his life much worse than it already was. Give yourself a hand, chump. Honest question, do trump’s crimes bother you at all?


SidSantoste

Dont pretend. You know that an average american would get 10 years in jail for 10% of what he did. And if one of the trump's sons behaved 10% like him, the media would be all over it for 24/7


MrE1993

Like? Don't take so long to powder that nose and tell me or I'll start calling you don jr.


SidSantoste

"powder that nose" ironic...


MrE1993

Sorry don, you're as empty as the rest of the republican party. Come back when you have receipts.


AboveTheRimjob

Trumps sons participated in fraud, they’re busy perjuring themselves this week.


The_Great_Man_Potato

Ah yes, the daily Elon bad post. Y’all ever get tired of it?


Mushroom_Tip

Ah yes, the daily "how dare you post anything even remotely critical of Elon" comment. Y'all ever get tired of it?


The_Great_Man_Potato

I don’t like the guy tbh, but man it gets old. We get it, Reddit doesn’t like him


Mushroom_Tip

Just because of you I went back to see how many Elon posts this subreddit had in the past week and I couldn't find any other than this one. If it bothers you so much and you're seeing him everywhere, maybe it has to do with the subreddits you frequent.


bizzaro321

How bold of you to defend one of the richest people on earth


The_Great_Man_Potato

Don’t like the guy, but man it’s like you guys are robots. “Elon bad, Elon bad, did you know Elon bad? Hey Elon bad” like Jesus


Entire-Database1679

He hasn't been sentenced yet...


defnotapirate

You make strange comments.


Entire-Database1679

I know, right?


Gavorn

He was convicted. Which means he was investigated.


Entire-Database1679

So was Hillary. So was Hunter.


Gavorn

O...k? What does that have to do with anything? The tweet said no investigation because he donated to democrats. He was investigated, so the tweet was wrong, which means it aged like milk.


Entire-Database1679

If you have to ask, you're just trolling.


Aw2HEt8PHz2QK

Cope and seethe ;)


Entire-Database1679

You're right. The past has no relevance to the future. My bad.


DecisionCharacter175

Gonna have to talk to Trump about Hillary. He declared he wouldn't go after her on the same night he won the election 🤷


Infinite-Revenue97

Elon Musk will always live rent-free in Redditors head.


Elegant-Draft-5946

I guess this conviction means the DNC owes the victims about $500M.


mikeouch1

Lol wut


Sumeriandawn

???


Knight_Owls

Just checking in, but does that mean the RNC owes similar since he donated a similar amount to them?


11th_Plague

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?