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Profiteering.

March 19, 2020 Senator Richard Burr Sold a Fortune in Stocks as G.O.P. Played Down Coronavirus Threat
North Carolina Republican warned a group that the virus could soon cause a major disruption in the United States. Three other senators also sold major holdings around the same time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/politics/richard-burr-stocks-sold-coronavirus.html

Whether this is entirely true or not, one would be foolish not think that there isn't a consortium of bastards plotting on how to best make a buck off this.

Who else would like to see a complete financial account of how politicians and the 1% are manoeuvring right now?

Ah yes... thanks.
Yes he has certainly left his polished mark on the mass collective psyche... fear, panic, and the triumph of good over evil. Never read the books... I'm sure there are enough around that if we had to keep warm, we'd be fine

1 hour ago, fuzzynormal said:

Good 'ol Michael Crichton.  Still dealing with his storytelling impact on cinema all these years later.  Quite a populist's legacy with that guy.

How do you mean?

Nice work Andrew, and thank you for taking the lead here and orienting the thread correctly. Your comment certainly remarks on the wide variance in morality and strangely... individual coping mechanisms. And to the profiteers, fuck them!

You can see this even into the twentieth century with that wonderful film by Ingmar Bergman, “The Seventh Seal,” where the plague is a metaphor for what Bergman was worried about in 1957, which is nuclear war. One can see that it has all the things that I’ve been talking about with regard to the plague, including the danse macabre with which the film ends. You’d see paintings of the Grim Reaper coming, and it really is an example of the persistence of this artistic response to death.

I'm certainly a fan of ethnographic art film that leverages historical events as a catalyst in which to explore ideas and themes and somehow find myself curious how future filmmakers will exploit the catastrophic Covid-19, where this could lead and what it could say in a larger context. This virus, as other before it, will touch and influence so many lives... as storytellers it will be an interesting challenge to not only leverage this event, but finesse it beyond the mediocre. Let's see what comes.

BTW, the first film I saw as a child was The Andromeda Strain.

24 minutes ago, hijodeibn said:

New Yorker is a Left Biased magazine, you can not expect objectiveness from a media like that, obviously nobody except Left Biased people will believe on it.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-yorker/

Ok, that settles it then... if you are right of centre, things like history and science don't matter anymore.

An insightful read that leverages history, art and the need for unity:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-pandemics-change-history

15 minutes ago, BTM_Pix said:

Of all the insults he brought forth on me, I think the worst one was him taking pictures of me with such a shitty zoom kit lens on that Nikon.

😂

8 minutes ago, eleison said:

My family comes "first"... Then my city comes "first".. Then my country comes "first"... During an emergency, that is how things are and will always be - "selfish" or not. 

I want you to imagine a world where the morally upright and most fucked over people on this planet should come first... instead of the 'I', 'me', 'mine'.

4 minutes ago, Super8 said:

Nice deflection about abortions.

Ask the people in Cuba and South Florida about Castro.  I lived with those same people and you have no clue about what you're talking about.   You attack other people but defend Castros dream?  Castro was a sick dictator and piece of shit.

Hey clown-man. Like the others, I'm done with you.

1 minute ago, Super8 said:

How is supporting abortion making you morally/ ethically rich?

How many fucking abortions do you think Trump has had? Are you really that dumb? He wants the vote of these backward assholes.

1 minute ago, Super8 said:

Not sure you can trust her.

Like you can trust Trump.

1 minute ago, Super8 said:

Biden would have been great 10 years ago but now he forgts what he was saying way to much

Yeah... and the lobby groups OWN him.

1 minute ago, Super8 said:

Sanders was great when he played for the Lions but that Bernie one defends Castro and socialism way to much.

Castro had a great dream that was impossible to implement. That doesn't make it any less great.

2 minutes ago, mercer said:

Na man, your game is personal insults hidden by "witty" memes. You know nothing of my life and what my "game" is. By all accounts, I am economically poor... not that it's any of your business. And I'm not trying to excuse myself of anything. I know who I am, what I stand for and what's in my heart.

Can you say the same?

How have your actions positively helped the world? How have your actions positively helped your community...  glass houses... and all that shit.

I know of your life because you constantly post about it and the fact that you are (like many of us) financially poor. But are you also morally/ ethically poor?
I've never thought you are an evil person and have always appreciated your comments and insights here. But what I just can't reconcile is how those who put their support behind someone like Trump can see the larger damage he is doing and don't realize that in the end they will be the ones hardest hit by him and his moral corruption and ethical bankruptcy. Short term profits give way to what?

Towards your question on how I've made the world a better place, I could start by saying that I'm not supporting a pig fuck.

But hey... why don't you respond to Andrew's comments?

10 minutes ago, mercer said:

It's supposed to look exactly how I meant it in the full context of my statement. I understand cherry picking portions of a person comment is a great tactic in political debate, but I'm not a politician and I'd prefer not to play those games.

Na man, your game is personal profit. And you are willing to look the other way while trying to excuse yourself. So you actually resemble... a particular politician that you support. Funny that.

1 minute ago, mercer said:

Seriously?! Nice try though. 

How else is what you've said supposed to look?

3 minutes ago, mercer said:

The fact is that he is POTUS and during his tenure and his economic actions, my annuity is substantially better than it has been since before the housing crisis of 2008.

So it's about your personal profit. And at the expense of what? Humanity? Morality? The natural world?

11 minutes ago, Super8 said:

I support whoever our president  is

Ready for that chocolate revolver yet?

Send in the clowns...

1 hour ago, Super8 said:

Trump is not your President.  No U.S President is your president.

Gloating over the notion that you've been born into a nation - through nothing more than a genetic lottery - that has a self serving buffoon for a president only serves to heighten your own stupidity. And that you are on the losing end of his 'leadership' further exemplifies it. The blind leading the naked 😂

Tell you what though... if you're such a patriot, I think that a good gift for your hero president could be something like a chocolate revolver... but since he is so busy handling everything so well, it may be difficult to meet privately and give it to him. So I suggest you try running up and handing it to him.

2 minutes ago, kaylee said:

no kidding! do you eat shoes?

Who's a good boy? Roof! 😃

4 minutes ago, Emanuel said:

but I am not stupid...

I'll remember you said this when we are sitting in a Chinese jail having bat soup. 

16 minutes ago, IronFilm said:

Wonder if my Uncle does that when he visits us, doubt it? But nothing would really surprise me.

Count the garbage bags after you drop him at the airport.

19 minutes ago, Emanuel said:

That's nothing but stupidity. The guy is free for that show anyway : -)

Ahhh but wait... he too believes in his 'version' of God. How can that be stupid? Is your God better than his? And if He is, then my guru is better than your guru. You see where this can go? Everyone blind and heading straight to hell. Or... a stairway to the best party in the universe

Alrighty Emanuel... here is one for you. How do you feel when viewing this?

In the event that you aren't already familiar with this image, it's an orthodox Jewish man covering himself in a plastic bag during flight because faith forbids him to fly over cemeteries.

Everyone was laughing when grandpa went fishing that morning, but nobody was laughing when he came home with that prostitute.

@Super8 Would you mind telling us what you feel when viewing this image?

1 minute ago, Emanuel said:

7 minutes ago, User said:

Shell64 quit posting on this site just as Super8 joined. Both members have a kind of aggressive bullshit about them.
I'm betting they are the same person.

Do you think so?

I'd be willing to bet on it, the grammar and tone seem to be similar. But I'm not about to go digging through posts to make an unhealthy link.

I suggest we move along as fuzzynormal suggested.