This seems entirely appropriate coming on top of Gravedodger’s sickening story about a poor, confused kid who goes for a sex change and dies under the knife.

Perhaps I’m being a bit hard on the surgeons, but I’ve known a few doctors and while some were okay, there were those who, while being brilliant, were definitely not warm and cuddly human beings. Those ones appeared to have been raised to lack human empathy: think House but without the wit. A freaking Artificial Intelligence would have been warmer. There are shades of autism involved here of course and always have been in the medial profession.

But the whole Trans thing does seem to involve sociopaths somewhere along the line, from the “therapists” who almost instantly conclude that a confused teenager must be suffering from gender dysphoria, to the doctors who quickly prescribe hormones, sterilising drugs and surgery. And of course one can’t forget money, especially with the American health care system.

But then money has that effect across the board, most recently showing with one Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) of the collapsed Magic Bean Crypto-Currency bank, FTX. Here he is basting about how he and his team just had to say The Right Woke “Shibboleths” and people would think FTX were The Good Guys

And giving money of course. As Ace of Spades notes:

By the way, he was giving money to Vox. That was part of the “altruism” he was doing, the woke crap he was doing to make people on the left think he was a “good guy.”

He gave money to a bunch of media companies on the left.

The New York Times is so enamored with Bankman-Fried’s “right shibboleths” that they just ran a puff piece on the disgraced hustler that is so disgracefully fawning that even the leftwing Gizmodo can see through it.

Was the New York Times getting money from Bankman-Fried too?

As that article notes, even after the collapse and his arrest, the NYT were giving him a lot of cover. Gizmodo writes that the NYT article really tries hard to make SBF’s “oops” sound like this was all just a problem of being too concerned with “effective altruism” and not concerned enough with the balance sheets – and Gizmodo calls bullshit on more than just that:

To top it all off, the Times article never addresses the fact that FTX was allegedly “hacked” over the weekend to the tune of roughly $600 million. Not even a passing mention of this very bizarre thing that will surely have a big impact on the bankruptcy proceedings moving forward.

Oh they were #Hacked were they? Poor babies. The official website for the NASDAQ stock exchange gets stuck into the NYT as well:

The article, written by Times crypto beat reporter David Yaffe-Bellany (with contributions by industry legends including Erin Griffith and Ephrat Livni), has been widely slammed as a “puff piece.”

“At the same time they were pumping the FTX scam, they were writing defamatory gossip pieces about industry stalwarts, driving their audiences away from safe, reliable and proven venues,” Kraken ex-CEO Jesse Powell said, presumably referring to his exchange and Coinbase, which have been center to a few media storms.

“Disgusting complicity on the part of the New York Times. He has ruined countless people’s lives by theft and fraud, and NYT is now helping him to delay or evade justice by whitewashing him in their prestigious, influential newspaper. I doubt this is just a mistake on their part,” 

Maybe it’s not just SBF whose a sociopath, although at this stage I’ll stick with “streetwalker” to describe the NYT

The WEF? Those assholes again? Do read all of Ace’s piece.

I’ll leave the last word to the folks from whom I shamelessly stole the headline:

Maybe the loss of a literary culture is precisely to blame. Would the kind of culture that produced the character Becky Sharp in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair have possessed the moral and psychological facility for spotting the red flags planted all over SBF? It’s probably romantic to imagine so. In the event, our culture is as illiterate as its business villains: SBF himself, after all, is a self-described hater of books. “I would never read a book,” he told an interviewer in September. “I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.”

That statement alone should land him in prison, if you ask me.