[astrange]

US companies don't need to be "in the hands of the government", we have rule of law.

And Helen Toner was already as much of a fed as you could want; she had exactly the resume a CIA agent would have. (Probably wasn't though.)

[ssnistfajen]

Rule of law that can be altered at any moment Patriot Act style is hardly reassuring.

[astrange]

That's how you know it's working.

[mcmcmc]

By rule of law do you mean rule of lobbyists? Laws don't apply to people with wealth and connections.

[astrange]

Without looking it up, what happened to the second biggest donor to the Democrats this year?

Is Donald Trump allowed to run a charity in New York?

[mcmcmc]

So two blatant criminals got caught, big whoop. SBF broke rule number 1 - don't fuck with rich people's money.

[astrange]

You're obviously just coping here. FTX was the "rich connected people", there weren't other even richer connecteder people.

(It's also totally possible FTX still has everyone's money. They own a lot of Anthropic shares that are really valuable. But he's still been convicted because of all the fraud they did.)