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A comment on SBF Written Testimony Notes 12/12/2022. Parent comment

Re:SBF Written Testimony Notes 12/12/2022 by constantcrying on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:49PM (#33987014)
It is very obviously a manipulative tactic. It is almost at the top, which is the point in time everyone is listening to him.

He wants it to be crass because it is intended to be offensive, not very offensive, but just offensive enough that it sticks in peoples minds for a bit longer. He wants it to stick because it is his only defense and every second his audience are considering how disrespectful he is, they do not think about how he is lying.

The problem with "I fucked up" is not the language, it is the fact that it is false. And if congress is commenting on the former, but not the later, it had the intended effect.

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Re:SBF Written Testimony Notes 12/12/2022 by rkagerer on Thursday December 15, 2022 @03:40AM (#33996804)
"I screwed up" might have been better.
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Re:SBF Written Testimony Notes 12/12/2022 by constantcrying on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:37AM (#33997213)
I do not think so. The point is to create a negative impression around the phrase, so that the focus is moved from the truth value of the statement to the totally irrelevant question of it being offensive or not.
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