Bankers are douchebags

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  1. We Are Borg

    We Are Borg Republican Democrat

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  2. steve2^4

    steve2^4 Aged Meat

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    he knows which side of his bread is buttered. WTF does that mean?
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  3. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    Bidenomics: America does better when the working and middle classes do better than the rich because the workers and middle class are more likely to spend that money in their community.

    Trickledown Economics: America does better when the rich do better than the working class and middle class because the rich will ‘invest it’ (put in banks).

    Hmmmm…. Yeah. I wonder which the CEO of JPMorgan Chase prefers.

    Not to mention that even setting aside the economic failure of Trickledown it could be argued the social costs have been even worse.
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  4. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    This is what actual investing in America looks like:

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    Now the reality is these manufacturing plants Biden is getting built aren’t your grandfathers’ plants. The majority will employ dozens to hundreds of factory workers. Very few will be in the thousands to tens of thousands. But it is a hell of a lot better to have them than not.
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  5. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Hey look, something we agree on! Bankers are in fact douche bags.
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  6. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    So say we all.
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  7. steve2^4

    steve2^4 Aged Meat

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    My stepdaughter is a banker.
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  8. Jenee

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    Is she a teller? or is she an executive?
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  9. steve2^4

    steve2^4 Aged Meat

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    Worse: auditor.
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    Auditors are good. I'm a big fan of auditors.
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  11. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    yet you two clowns still for some reason despise the rest of the proles for wanting a bit of what they steal back?
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  12. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Proles. Would that be the proletariat, Karl?
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  13. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    Caesar, maybe? The term has been around since Rome and since before the republic-although describes about the same thing
    it also seems more than applicable.


    Funny thing about Karl Marx though... He did coin the term "libertarian" when describing anarcho communalism (rather than Stalinesque "communism").

    Anyways, I chose it because "working class" really isn't a good descriptor anymore. Prole (Orwell, BTW) manages to convey the fuller social caste of poor and landless, yet skilled and educated sectors of the workforce. "Precariat" (a portmanteau of precarious and proletariat) has been gaining traction with the emergence of the gig economy.
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  14. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    They really do need to do a better job teaching history in HS. Can’t just be STEM.
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  15. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Speaking of douche bags.
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  16. Ten Lubak

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    My buddy is a banker in London. Was out there about 12 years ago and went out with a bunch of his banker friends, went to this bar mid afternoon and started drinking heavily. Then the cocaine came out and when the first guy came back from the bathroom and was royally pissed, apparently the restaurant we were at sprayed like WD-40 on the flat surfaces in the stall so it would ruin your cocaine. He must have lost a huge rail, because was so mad that he threw his glass as hard as he could on the ground, shattered everywhere. He was escorted out. Night ended up at the strippers where one of these guys threw up all over the place while he was getting a lap dance. He was also escorted out

    Total douchebags but I had fun
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  17. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    had one regular at the after hours who was with BoM and did forensic audits. SHe was pretty cool... her fuckboy and I used to do rails off of her ass behind the bar. First time was a bit of a faux pas though as I hadn't noticed the rip he'd laid out for himself before I'd done mine and then slapped that cheek (she had one very slappable ass)
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  18. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    izzat because he wouldn't share his blow with you-even after skullfucking you in the toilet stall?
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  19. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    Did I fucking lose my mind? They are fucking faking. This is all a performance. Joe is never going to get rid of trickle down economics. He is perfectly safe because manchin and the republican led house will never let any actual policy get through.

    Who the fuck actually thinks Joe Biden is working against the bankers? Are you fucking dumb as a trump supporter?

    Some of you fucking people are buying Bidenomics? Joe Biden is stopping trickle down economics? Th3e Joe Biden that is the president of the US? That Joe Biden?

    All of you Biden Bros need to stop eating Dayton's stupid pills.

    You are so fucking gullible.

    OK, my head hurts. It must be nice to be stupid.
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  20. tafkats

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    Same. Especially the good ones. I've learned a lot from auditors.
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  21. Uncle Albert

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    You would have to define "steal" in a specific, unambiguous way. I don't trust you not to be implying something else.
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  22. Ancalagon

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  23. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    I should give a fuck that a lying sack of shit like you has an opinion about my intellectual honesty?
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  24. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    2 signs you should check your math in the RR.

    1. you agree with UA, the boy, or trumpforge
    2. you are thinking Tererun knows something when she is ranting about a yellow bar of cocaine hydrochloride.
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  25. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    well, I'm safe from #1 on this topic as both of'em shill for parasites

    as for #2, I've never seen yellow... is it the hydrochloride that tinges it that way?
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  26. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    I am not sure because I have never been to a coke processing place, but I have heard from a number of different vectors that somewhere during the processing the product is yellow. From what I have been told that is normally taken out in the processing on the farms and is not part of the cut and distribution process over here. When I heard a bar I thought of something like a pressed bar of material which would fit in a manufacturing sense, and like I was saying is not on the street.

    I fucked up because I tried to interpret what the SS agent said in a blurb taken out of the context of what was going on around them. What @Bailey said makes total sense and I did not think of that. I admittedly did not see the entire picture and my guess was way off. It was still a fucking guess.

    I really should have used occam's razor on the whole thing, but my mind wanted to spit out all the things I know about cocaine processing. I am smart, but I am the first one to tell you that you have to reign me in at times. I get excited with the possibilities, but can also hear other people's common sense. In this situation I really give props to bailey for getting it right. I was off in consp[iracy land and bailey just came in and shut that fucking thing down with a thud.

    Yup, it happens I am wrong. I would say I am the first person ever to admit it on the internet, but I know of others who have acheived such a dumbass thing and admitted to it.
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  27. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    At the 2021 Fringe things were wild. February/March 2021 we were totally Covid free and in this weird bubble. Everyone felt it could end any moment and the parties were amazing. Was at a couple of different nights out at clubs in town where well off people I barely know were just giving their handbag to anyone with a comment of which pocket the coke was in and to just bring the bag back after we'd had some.

    Good times. Weird times for sure, but good.
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  28. Uncle Albert

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    I'll take that as an admission that you had dishonest intentions.
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  29. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    once again proving your own lack of honesty and preconceived notions... :rolleyes:

    you're really making this too easy.
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  30. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    We've seen the turd gobblers you toss implicit trust to.
    Your paranoia isn't just meaningless, it's a pathetic joke.
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