AdminsAreLazyID10TS t1_j8wm5ti wrote on February 17, 2023 at 2:00 PM

Reply to comment by apriljeangibbs in [OC] Which Political Groups did Former FTX Executives Donate to? by coingecko

No. It's poorly sourced nonsense from someone that doesn't know even know what liberal means.

vonstubbins t1_j8wxt2h wrote on February 17, 2023 at 3:22 PM

That's debateable. Friedman had deeply liberal beliefs and openely talked about donating to groups with very liberal values.

The chart don't represent political parties at all, just the ideological leanings of the groups they donated to.

Edit: in fact, I'm pretty certain most people are misunderstanding what this shows. They're trying to make it sound like the money either went to the Democrats or the Republicans. That data will be in there, but they'll be in there alongside organisations like the ACLU.

Groups like this. https://www.startguide.org/orgs/orgs00.html

AdminsAreLazyID10TS t1_j90lor9 wrote on February 18, 2023 at 8:47 AM

I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt in that regard, but many of those groups aren't "liberal" so much as they are socially progressive or charitable.

It's especially suspicious in that they have separated "liberal" from "Democratic" and "Republican" party and candidate giving specifically, a detail that you will see with a brief glance through the comments has escaped most of the great minds of Reddit. Especially especially because so many political parties outside the US that broadly share those views simply go by the Liberal Party.

The inescapable conclusion is that OP either has a clear agenda and knowledge and has phrased his post deliberately misleadingly or they simply have an extremely inaccurate definition of liberal... and an agenda.