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The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.

An attorney for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried said in federal court Tuesday his client has to subsist on bread, water and peanut butter because the jail he's in isn't accommodating his vegan diet.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have noticed for a supposedly progressive network, there are a lot of posts recently on news stories about prisoners supporting capital punishment and wishing prison violence on them. Very odd stuff.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm hesitant to say PINO but there is definitely a cadre of folks who want (for example) food and shelter for the homeless and for their enemies to starve to death in a ditch.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's amazing how fast some people can dehumanise their perceived enemies yet stil think they're the good guys.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This has been repeated in case studies around the world since then but the Nuremberg Trials were the first public use of "But of course the other officers at Auschwitz were terrible people but I am not a terrible person!" The psychology would be interesting if it weren't so frikkin horrific. But I suspect SBF isn't that so much as a complete and total narcissist and sociopath.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Some of these "enemies" dehumanise themselves very easily. Narcisistic sociopaths who actively and openly brag about manipulating "idiots", saying they're the best shit to ever grace the earth and downplay their crimes while laughing all the way to the bank to withdraw ill gotten gains? Yeah, real hard to believe they'd ever want to redeem themselves.

Couple that with the general feeling that rich assholes always get lightly punished whenever they're caught and it's even easier to understand the bloodlust for "proper punishment" against them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it has more to do with rich people getting away with murder because they are rich while homeless people getting the worst punishment for stealing a loaf of bread or sleeping on a bench.

And the rest of society getting sick and tired of it, so I see their sentiment.

I don't believe in capital punishment though, let alone a death sentence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing is, if the rich are getting treated like this in prison, surely it's going to be even worse for literally anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago