It's ridiculous, but I sort of sympathise.
It's almost like crypto traders have been so traumatised by recent regulation-fuelled collapses that they've developed a kind of financial Stockholm Syndrome to sympathise with the government bureaucrats who had originally sought their destruction.
In February, Alex Chalmers, an undergraduate at Oriel College, resigned as co-chairman after claiming that a large proportion of members "have some kind of problem with Jews" and some sympathise with Islamist militant group Hamas.
"For a long time I was not interested in that kind of person, but after those interviews I sympathised with them.
These are sentiments with which the reader can only sympathise, yet the question of what kind of book can be made from them remains.
It should be impossible to sympathise with such a character – except that he has a kind of steely honesty which leads him to understand that he is ultimately nothing but "a piece of shit who deserves to die", as William T Vollmann puts it in his Afterword.
I was going to reply with all of this to Larry, to tell him about our – which is to say not my – run in with CBS and to sympathise with him over how easy it is for this kind of thing to happen.
I also sympathise with those who seek integration under the jurisdiction of some kind of federal constitution with a federal budget very much larger than that of the Community budget.
The Nazi sympathising Volkischer Beobachter suggested that the opera belonged in "the kind of specially noxious cesspool that you'll find in a corner of any big city".
And inevitably there was politics: the medieval conditions inside Russian jails, what kind of Russia might exist after Vladimir Putin, and why many on the western left appear to sympathise with Russia's president.
Sympathising with us, not just for being cold, but for being the kind of people who have to pay top dollar for this hollow simulacrum of fun, they brought us extra pillows, which we stacked around our bodies like Eskimos preparing for winter.
