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Re:What Happened at Alameda Research by joenot443 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @10:23AM (#33610236)
As I've explained to others here before, there's a difference in magnitude which is relevant here. SBF pledged to donate _$1 billion_ to the Democrat party. The only person to spend more money on the Democrats this cycle was the dear George Soros.

Who knows what's in store for SBF, but it's important to look at the facts here and acknowledge that this operation was heavily invested in the success of the Democratic party.

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Re:What Happened at Alameda Research by DebtDeflation on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @10:37AM (#33610436)
There's an even bigger difference between donating and pledging to donate.

Salame donated $26.4M to individual GOP politicians and another $2-3M to GOP political organization.

SBF donated $39.8M to Democratic politicians and organizations.

Not all that different.

The $1B pledge was realistically never going to happen, just as his offer to loan Musk $3B to buy Twitter was never going to happen. Even in the best of times he never would have been able to extract that kind of real money from his operation within a short time.

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Re:What Happened at Alameda Research by amanaplanacanal on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @10:49AM (#33610653)
Pledged, but it sounds like it never happened.
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Re:What Happened at Alameda Research by skinnymuch on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:44PM (#33617807)
But he didn’t donate that much. He was never going to have that money. The other person is showing how close the other guy was to the GOP. You’re being partisan here.
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