Re:SBF Written Testimony Notes 12/12/2022
by jcranmer on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @09:36AM
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At one point in the saga, he fired his lawyers because they were telling him to shut the fuck up and he didn't want to. Whatever lawyers he has now are probably still telling him to shut the fuck up, and he's completely ignoring their advice right now. Great idea, by the way, when you're facing criminal charges.
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Re:SBF Written Testimony Notes 12/12/2022
by foobarian on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:24AM
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I wonder if he has some kind of personality bias stemming from being raised by a couple of lawyers. Kids often rebel against the immediate ancestor generation, could this be him lashing out at all things lawyer-like, "disrupting" it and doing things "his way?"
Re:SBF Written Testimony Notes 12/12/2022
by likpok on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:06PM
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SBF is not the first person who thinks they are smarter than their lawyers. It even fits the pattern of "physics person dismissive of other fields" (e.g. https://xkcd.com/793/)!
I dunno if we need to go too far into the particulars of his life to explain it. When Popehat was talking about the legal troubles of people in Trump's orbit this came up a lot (and a lot of those people were lawyers!).
Re:SBF Written Testimony Notes 12/12/2022
by lr1970 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @06:20PM
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> "physics person dismissive of other fields"
This reminds me of an old physicist-lawyer joke:
A physicist goes to see a lawyer. He knows that above all the lawyer is interested in getting his money. So the physicist not wanting to be taken for a sucker walks into the room and fires right away: - Hi, how much do you charge?
The lawyer fires back: - $400 for two questions. What is your second question?