Margaret
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interesting to think about michael lewis' relationship to SBF vs michael oher. confronted with the criminality of the former, his response is "look what they're doing to my beautiful boy," confronted with the fact that he abetted the exploitation of the latter, his response is "he's ungrateful."
can someone please ask michael lewis to stop referring to the sam bankman-fried trial as a "lynching" holy shit
![Michael thought the packed courtroom and the overflow rooms, filled with some of the 175 journalists who couldn’t get into the main courtroom, rendered the whole trial a spectacle, with attendees acting like theater critics. Or worse. “It reminded me of accounts I’ve read of families packing up their picnic baskets and going to see the lynching,” he told me. He recalled a description he read about the phenomenon. “It was describing the crowd gathering for the lynching like they’re going to watch a play,” he said, “Their spirits are high, they’re enjoying everything, and then the body is dangling from the end of the rope. And then there’s a brief moment when the crowd realizes this was something other than just spectacle. And I assume that moment occurred when they announced the verdict [for Sam]. But I didn’t see that moment. I saw people just being—journalists, especially—just kind of enjoying the show. I felt like this is what it would feel like to go back to the day when people did](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreiawr3ugsrcircjdi2hkx7qqe53mdjvlxrprmjsutjkppl24b7d2q4@jpeg)
November 27, 2023 at 8:22 PM
interesting to think about michael lewis' relationship to SBF vs michael oher. confronted with the criminality of the former, his response is "look what they're doing to my beautiful boy," confronted with the fact that he abetted the exploitation of the latter, his response is "he's ungrateful."
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Come on. I'm talking to you
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November 27, 2023 at 8:53 PM
Shout, shout. Let it all out
Here is my handle and here's my spout
Come on. I'm talking to you
Teapot
Here is my handle and here's my spout
Come on. I'm talking to you
Teapot
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Yes, agreed! It's like the carrier pigeon of social media platforms.
September 14, 2023 at 2:51 PM
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