Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, which was, until last week, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, is today facing prison time for allegedly defrauding his customers of billions of dollars. Bankman-Fried, 30, donated to many progressive causes allied with the “effective altruism movement,” including pandemic prevention and response.
After Boris Johnson’s resignation as prime minister, the UK Conservative Party leadership contest got under way. The preservation of conservative values seems to be a top priority for the contestants. Amidst this, PM hopeful Rishi Sunak has promised to fight the ‘woke nonsense’ if he leads the UK government.
In the mid-18th century, a secretive political group began spreading dangerous conspiracy theories throughout Britain’s colonies. British subjects had long enjoyed the freedom of expression, but these radicals abused novel communication platforms to churn out seditious literature not often grounded in fact (read below), even resorting to threats and violence
Woke culture is a dangerous form of decadence that the West simply cannot afford. This sentiment has been echoed by a UK conservative party chairman as he declared that woke psychodrama actually weakens the West at a time like the present.