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[crikkett]

maybe it's the way you say it that sometimes puts some people off. rigor can come across as harsh and unforgiving. but i like the way you say it. the fact that you're saying it to yourself at the same time. i actually think you say it way better than me.

I think that's about the nicest way anyone has ever called me an asshole.

You two....!

[Allegro]

That should read WHO dammit, WHO, a human being, one of us, like us, not separate, not alien, not reptilian, not other, not indescribable nor inexplicable.

Now we'll be treated to endless utterances like, "What a senseless act of violence," "We can never really know why." Yes we can, if only, but humans never possessed the courage to look in an accurate mirror. [REFER.]

[barracuda]

A species that hires bodyguards to protect them loses the ability to protect itself and is doomed to extinction.

[JackRiddler]

If at first you don't succeed in making the most minuscule effort to wrest control of your country back from the cloven hooves of a corporo-fascist junta, then continue to apathetically play first-person shooter games on your iPod, watch John Stewart, and vote for the latest puppet wearing your team's colors.

After all, you don't want Sarah Palin to be President, do you!?!?!?!?!?

[Bruce Dazzling]

'Austerity' is certainly not for everyone, and disaster capitalism feeds on collapse. A bad day for the herd is a good day for the vultures.

[eyeno]

simulist wrote:

If God exists, I would be amazed to discover such a being trifling with religion.

[Joe Hillshoist]

nothing ethical, positive, sustainable or equitable mixes with capitalism

gold forms the base of the system because capitalism is the most corrosive agent ever discovered

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[Sapient Simian]

"Maybe literate adults should cease slow dancing with their tablets upon the grave of Johannes Gutenberg. " Jeff Wells

[Allegro]

Sociopathic behavior is systemic to the financial industry. It is expected, rewarded, required, celebrated. This goes from the long-haired mortgage sharks conning NINJAs into the meatgrinder for the subprime scams all the way to the gold-cufflinked bulletheads settling quadrillions in derivative bets on shit they don't even own at the BIS soiree in Zurich. Occasionally the sociopathy is acknowledged and praised for being sociopathic, as such. (See, among countless other examples, Enron traders laughing about California Grandma's electric bill as a result of "Death Star," or the Goldman e-mails to and from Patrice "The Fabulous Fab" Fabre.) The resulting failures are almost never punished, and in fact also usually rewarded, the very occasional indictments of people far below the top levels notwithstanding.

If you were insufficiently sociopathic and you didn't make as much money as the trader at the next desk over: Fuck you.

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[Laodicean]

I may be wrong, but I believe that Obama is the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to target and assassinate a US citizen.

[Allegro]

Obama is not the problem, he is but a symptom, a product of the disease that is ravaging America's body politic. Nothing would serve the purposes of the Powers That Be better than channeling the people's anger at the eminently expendable front man Barack Hussein Obama. Dumping him and replacing him with another pawn from their large and superficially diverse stable would only reinforce the fatal illusion that American citizens have an actual say in the running of their own country. [REFER.]

Thank You, Alice.

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[AlicetheKurious]

I finally got quoted on this thread!! You like me, you really like me!!!!!!

[Occult Means Hidden]

I've never been quoted. Hurts my fragile ego.

[AlicetheKurious]

Here's one I really like, OMH:

We are heroes. It's just not so glamorous in the real world.

From here. Very true.

[Allegro]

I finally got quoted on this thread!! You like me, you really like me!!!!!! [REFER.]

Now you've been quoted not once but twice! OMG. Keep it rolling , Alice.

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