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Re:FTX founder SBF was 'chilling' at JFK lounge before flyin... by toomuchtodo on Saturday December 24, 2022 @10:22PM (#34123864)
The comment you replied to was likely referring to Eric Garner, who was killed by the NYPD in 2014 via a prohibited chokehold maneuver for allegedly selling loose cigarettes on the street [1].

I believe the point being made was the wildly disparate proportion of justice (even assuming pre trial treatment and “innocent until proven guilty”) with regards to the crime and harm caused. Petty crime? Violent treatment. Billions of dollars of white collar fraud? Business class and lounge access.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Eric_Garner

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Re:FTX founder SBF was 'chilling' at JFK lounge before flyin... by gnomewrecker on Saturday December 24, 2022 @10:33PM (#34123931)
That situation was awful. Drawing a connection directly between the two scenarios makes very little sense. The people involved in each event are so far removed as to be entirely causally unrelated.

It’s highly unlikely that there’s some individual out there that’s in charge of both situations, saying “yes we should murder petty criminals, and also let fraudsters fly first class”.

So, yes this dissymmetry is unfair, but it’s also unfair that the sun will eventually expand to swallow the earth, and that’s about as connected to SBF as Garner is.

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Re:FTX founder SBF was 'chilling' at JFK lounge before flyin... by tosc on Saturday December 24, 2022 @10:40PM (#34123994)
> It’s highly unlikely that there’s some individual out there that’s in charge of both situations

What a bizarre straw man. Of course there is no individual. There are numerous democratically elected policymakers. What difference does that make?

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