VP of Bank of America Stabbed to Death in Times Square

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  1. Tuckerfan

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    Having been screwed over by that bank more than once, I have feelings about this.
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  2. Coloratura

    Coloratura "Not a total fucking piece of shit."

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    "We are ⁠shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague. She was a valued teammate who will be greatly missed. Our hearts go out to her family and all of her loved ones," the U.S. banking giant said in an emailed statement to Reuters on Tuesday. BofA's Manhattan office is located a stone's throw from Times Square at One Bryant Park."

    Nah, I'll bet they've already replaced her. These people care about as much as a horse cares about the ant it stepped on as it passed by. Thousands of poor account holders were having their incoming and outgoing transactions rearranged so that there would be overdraft fees (it's a very common practice in the US and banks make millions or billions of dollars each year from the practice) while this gasbag was writing about missing someone who had been VP of that branch for 18 months. So fuck Bank of America.

    As for the VP herself, it's such a sad way to die, and it's a tragedy all around for her and even the assailant, who was clearly having a mental health crisis (and having a history of mental health issues). Two people dead, a third in the hospital. Just sad.
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    The most disturbing murder trial I ever covered was the Billy Ferry case in the mid 80s in Tampa. Billy's family knew he was going crazy and pleaded with everyone they could think of for help. They never got it and he ended up throwing gasoline over a checkout lane at a Winn-Dixie store and killed several people as well horribly injuring several others. I wonder if anyone will pull on the threads and trace back this individual's journey into madness and murder. :chris:
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    Coloratura "Not a total fucking piece of shit."

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    So much of this goes back to Reagan's war on the mentally ill and his defunding of mental health services. The US seems to be a firm believer in more cops, fewer helpful institutions, so the police end up shooting a mentally ill person who was free to commit acts of violence because there was no one to help them.
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    Conservative sure do cry if you call them Nazis, but they sure are fucking enamored of eugenics for the mentally ill and elderly, and discredited race science for immigration.
    What's the moral difference between starving the elderly and handicapped to death by decimating their retirement money, and putting them into gas showers, and killing them all in one go?
    What's the difference between waiting for a schizophrenic to attempt a crime, and then blasting them to death, and (again) gassing them outright?
    I can't get a good answer on that.
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    read we are frantically scrubbing her hard drive 'just in case'
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    You have a chance to provide for your own retirement by squirreling away every spare dime in your productive years and prevent that starvation. Control. There's your difference.
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  9. Coloratura

    Coloratura "Not a total fucking piece of shit."

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    Oh definitely. The only thing those sociopaths care about is protecting their own asses and making sure nothing incriminating comes their way.
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  10. Crosis36

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    So you won't be accepting social security, then?
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    Ayn Rand sure did.
    Her apologists claim that it's okay to take it if you hate it, and that makes you a hero.
    Why?
    They don't quite get around to that part.
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    The difference? There's more money to be made funneling it to themselves through the facade of legality.
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    I operate under the assumption there will be none left by the time I am eligible, so I will once again have paid for someone else's benefit and received nothing in return.
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  14. Crosis36

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    So your answer is, "I will cash every check they send me."
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  15. Diacanu

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    And it all went to trans bottom surgery.
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    No, my answer is my answer, you fucking weasel.

    You asked a fenced-in yes/no because your high school debate club ass can only function when you are prepared with canned answers, and my reply is that it is moot because the benefits will not be there to claim.

    You really need to get over thinking you get to decide the valid direction for a conversation. You must be fucking insufferable in person.
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    So how's that vaginoplasty working out for you, Michelle?
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  18. Coloratura

    Coloratura "Not a total fucking piece of shit."

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    Notice, curious onlookers, that the bald rutted butt monkey casually uses a different name other than the person's assigned gender when he wants to. He won't do it when someone asks sincerely, but to make a joke? He will toss it out like an after lunch shit toward a crowd of tourists.

    Absolutely fascinating, but it's no wonder these marvelous creatures are nearly extinct. They seem to have no sense of awareness or self-preservation skills. One gathers the notion that if it came a heavy rain, they'd drown while standing with their faces upturned toward the sky in anger.

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  19. Diacanu

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    I'm anti-drug for myself, but I want everyone who wants drugs to have all the drugs. :shrug:
    I never hear conservative nitwits calling me a smack fiend. :shrug:
    Weird how their playground logic works. :no: :rolleyes:
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  20. Coloratura

    Coloratura "Not a total fucking piece of shit."

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    Same. I hate having to take the medications I already have to take, but recreational drugs? Sure, if it makes someone happy, if it helps them deal with the world around them, I'm all for it. I also believe in strong recovery programs for people who enjoy drug use but it has gotten away from them and they need some help reigning it back in.
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  21. Diacanu

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    UA likes to simper and blubber that I'm some sort of sneaky Stalinist or some shit, but muthafucka, I'd make all 50 states Amsterdam.
    If I did, I know he'd never thank me.
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    Coloratura "Not a total fucking piece of shit."

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    He'd believe it was owed to him, so why would he?

    Also, he'd immediately start noticing the "foreigners" taking advantage of "his" rights. So even in a land of huge freedoms and economic security, he'd quickly find someone else to hate. People like him, that's what they thrive on.

    Oh, and you're definitely to the left of liberalism, but yeah, you're no Stalinist. Then again, to a fascist, everyone to the left of Trump is a Stalinist.
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    Well, sure. He'll refer to a man by a female name in the context of insulting him, because ... hmm, why might that be?

    Oh that's right, the raging misogyny.
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    So you choose to believe in a fantasy world in order to avoid directly addressing your own hypocrisy.
    Yes, we get it.
    And you will still cash those checks happily when they come.
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  25. RickDeckard

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    Savers are really gonna be pissed off when the US government crashes the currency, aren't they?
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    It's almost like it would be foolish to assume that a collapse of the social security system wouldn't also be accompanied by a concurrent devaluation of the currency and other apocalyptic doomsday scenarios.
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  27. Uncle Albert

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    "Hypocrisy" based on your lie.

    You have no reason to believe thst other than your inability to engage honestly.
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  28. Uncle Albert

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    If they do all of their saving in currency, sure.
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    You can't spend gold ingots at the grocery store.
    And you ain't gonna like the handling fee Negan takes.
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  30. Uncle Albert

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    Swing and a miss there, champ.
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