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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

 

I love how we should be suspicious of anything that might make money, so the solution is that we should place all of our trust in.....a cadre of nakedly corrupt and self-interested billionaires.

 

This timeline is fucking absurd.

Billionaire's should arise the MOST suspicion, using that logic though, right? I think so-- never trust the billionaire's man. "Behind every great fortune is a great crime, or something like that." - Batman, probably.

 

ETA because I googled it and AI did the work for me:

 

“Behind every great fortune there is a great crime” is a quote often attributed to French novelist Honoré de Balzac. However, the quote may have originated from a paraphrase in The Oil Barons: Men of Greed and Grandeur by Richard O'Connor. 

 

Explanation

The quote suggests that all wealthy people have achieved their success through illegal or unethical means. However, many people achieve wealth through hard work, innovation, and ethical business practices.

 

Origin

The full quote from Balzac is, “Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait”. This translates to “The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed”. 

 

Appearance in other works

The quote appears in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather, which tells the story of a Mafia family.

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Just now, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Everything that comes out of Dotard’s mouth is intended to make him money in some form or fashion

The epitome of the grifter, no doubt.

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1 hour ago, Willfully Horn said:

Checked out something I read on Bluesky. Did a quick google search with these words”

”banker retard pussy site:ft.com”

I got two results, and they were sufficient.

 

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Freedom Win! Top Bankers return to Slurring Special Needs Kids.

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Finally the tech bro billionaires are free to lead us into the oligarchic dystopian future.

They know what’s good for me and I’m going to get it!
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Freedom Win! Top Bankers return to Slurring Special Needs Kids.
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To that guy: The pendulum will eventually swing back again, you retarded pussy.
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you have millions if not billions of dollars, power, unfettered access to the most luxurious pleasures in the world...

and you are relieved you can finally call someone a 'pussy retard' again, to the extent that it's what you mention in an interview. 

i just...wow. humans are sick fucks. we deserve absolutely everything that is coming.

i bought a copy of Brave New World a few months ago. im ready for some soma.

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It really is truly terrible logic. We've gone through a period where people's legacies have been tarnished because things they said decades ago (when those things were considered perfectly acceptable by most), and now they perceive a reprieve in that. Surely it'll last forever, right? No way that comes back to bite anybody in the ass for saying those things at a time when at least a significant portion of the country, if not the majority, consider them inappropriate and offensive. Good luck with that!

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8 minutes ago, mchookem said:

you have millions if not billions of dollars, power, unfettered access to the most luxurious pleasures in the world...

and you are relieved you can finally call someone a 'pussy retard' again, to the extent that it's what you mention in an interview. 

i just...wow. humans are sick fucks. we deserve absolutely everything that is coming.

i bought a copy of Brave New World a few months ago. im ready for some soma.

no, we deserve for bad shit to start happening to the right people. that's what we deserve. there are plenty of us that have been fighting the good fight for a long time that don't deserve to be brought down with these cretins

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It really is truly terrible logic. We've gone through a period where people's legacies have been tarnished because things they said decades ago (when those things were considered perfectly acceptable by most), and now they perceive a reprieve in that. Surely it'll last forever, right? No way that comes back to bite anybody in the ass for saying those things at a time when at least a significant portion of the country, if not the majority, consider them inappropriate and offensive. Good luck with that!

It’s not that detailed.
We have made it okay - nay, laudatory - to be a mean asshole again. That’s it. MAGA means it’s good and right to be a fucking asshole to people…but only those weaker than you. If you aren’t punching down, why are you punching at all?
It’s an endorsement of the very worst of our nature, and elevating it to be admired.
If you call someone a pussy, retard, faggot, spic, n—-er, you are an American hero, demonstrating the very best of what it is to be an American.
What’s bad is actually good, and what’s good (acknowledging the existence of others and treating them with a modicum of decency and kindness) is bad - it’s “the woke mind virus.”
Thank God, America is safe for mean and angry white males again.
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Charging "those that make money off us with trade..."? So, like the people that are PAYING US for the goods we are selling at the rates any given market dictates? 

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Duties are already collected and paid by the freight brokers that bill importers. Those costs get passed right on down the line to the end user. So, the department of redundancy is already failing again.

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Duties are already collected and paid by the freight brokers that bill importers. Those costs get passed right on down the line to the end user. So, the department of redundancy is already failing again.

Hey…I’ve got an idea…what if, in order to respond to armed, military threats, we created a brand new entity. They would have weapons, and would be trained to fight our enemies. I would call it “The US Army.” All I ask is that the history books note me as the originator of this brilliant idea.
These idiots have zero idea how any government works. They never wanted to. They just want to get praise from morons, and profit from the enterprise.
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The whole Andreesen interview is really bizarre. It starts off with him presenting what he says is the deal for tech bros. Which is that they invent something, get filthy rich go to all the best parties, and then give all their money away to charity. He said that his outlook on this started change when Zuckerberg said that he would give all his money to charity and everybody came out and poo-pooed it. But of course much of that just has to do with who Zuckerberg is. Everyone hates the guy. In large part because everyone has watched what Facebook has done to their family members. And yes, some of us are starting to figure out that having a charity that you donate all your money to and then your descendants control and remain filthy rich for generations isn't quite as charitable as those of us scratching off a check for $100 to United Way or the Red Cross or helping with the soup kitchen. And if you think you'll automatically get plaudits from conservatives, I present Bill Gates.

 

His next break was Biden appointing big tech sceptics to the FTC and SEC. I guess as a coin bro, he's just constitutionally disinclined to regulation by the SEC, but Sam Bankman isn't the first asshole out there and won't be the last. IIRC, the people who actually run Coinbase (which Andreesen funded) want regulation.

 

The final straw was a meeting between the Biden admin and big tech execs regarding AI which Andreesen characterized as the government wanting control. Per the NYT, Sam Altman had a somewhat different recollection of the meeting. So who knows exactly what happened. But I know that if you're looking for a boogeyman you're likely to find one.

 

And let's not forget it wasn't that long ago that conservatives wanted to axe section 230 entirely and also require platforms to host their speech.

 

All this led to his little tech manifesto. That someone needs to defend little tech and the startup from government, which is stifling innovation through regulation.

 

But part of me wants to slap him and remind him what happened to him when he was little tech: big tech gave away its competing product, which it used its deep pockets generated from other business to improve until its product was better than his product, and used its network of clients and suppliers to make its product the default on end-users' computers. Little tech's biggest threat isn't government . It's big tech.

 

So maybe he's forgotten that lesson. But I guess he was insulated from that when AOL decided to burn $10 billion on Netscape in 1998. So maybe that's a lesson he never learned.

 

Or maybe it's that he learned a different lesson. Founders and funders usually don't get paid through IPOs. They usually get paid by a big tech incumbent buying their startup. Looked at another way, government increasingly scrutinizing mergers and buyouts (think: the government opposing Facebook's purchase of Instagram instead of doing nothing) damages little tech not by regulating it directly, but by putting obstacles in the path of its major source of getting paid.

 

Looked at in this light, Andreesen's manifesto and turn to Trump isn't a principled stand for the little guy. It is a cynical attempt at covering his own interest as a VC funder in getting paid.

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2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

the biggest snowflake to ever live ....

 

Contrast this with Fox News who are mere humble servants delivering unbiased and factual information to the American people.

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22 minutes ago, elfenix said:

 

Or maybe it's that he learned a different lesson. Founders and funders usually don't get paid through IPOs. They usually get paid by a big tech incumbent buying their startup. Looked at another way, government increasingly scrutinizing mergers and buyouts (think: the government opposing Facebook's purchase of Instagram) damages little tech not by regulating it directly, but by putting obstacles in the path of its major source of getting paid.

 

Looked at in the light, Andreesen's manifesto and turn to Trump isn't a principled stand for the little guy. It is a cynical attempt at covering his own interest as a VC funder in getting paid.

That’s exactly it. I learned working in Austin in the late 90s that most VC and founders didn’t want to actually build something long-term. They wanted to build something significant enough to attract the attention of a larger player and get bought. It’s essentially a lottery for the rich. Lina Khan’s actions at the FTC have scared those guys significantly.

Also Andreesen seemed mostly upset that the  plebeians weren’t saying thank you enough for providing some crumbs from your table. 
 

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3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Freedom Win! Top Bankers return to Slurring Special Needs Kids.

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They won't be happy until they're not only "allowed" to say the N-word but when it's used prominently and approvingly in ppt presentations and on their websites. 

Posted
4 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Make Mad Men Real Again....

Look, if in all this craziness, we as a society bring back the 3 martini lunch during work, well it won’t all be bad….

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4 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

Charging "those that make money off us with trade..."? So, like the people that are PAYING US for the goods we are selling at the rates any given market dictates? 

 

4 hours ago, Goofyboy said:

Duties are already collected and paid by the freight brokers that bill importers. Those costs get passed right on down the line to the end user. So, the department of redundancy is already failing again.

 

4 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

But it won’t be a tax, it will be a non-tax upward price adjustment that tax deductions can’t erase.  So much better. 

And Mexico will pay for it!!!

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On 1/13/2025 at 12:18 PM, Aqua Buddha said:

Leave this here, I guess:

 

I’m kind of okay with this. If you’re stupid enough to trust medical advice from these two dum-dums, I’d rather we not waste valuable resources trying to save you.

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I just scrolled through the top 10 on Netflix and it makes perfect sense that American’s re-elected Trump. The average American is a fat, fucking potato brain that watches hours of the most mind numbing shit every day. 

Tik tok/instagram/youtube/facebook are even worse. 

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7 hours ago, elfenix said:

But part of me wants to slap him and remind him what happened to him when he was little tech: big tech gave away its competing product, which it used its deep pockets generated from other business to improve until its product was better than his product, and used its network of clients and suppliers to make its product the default on end-users' computers. Little tech's biggest threat isn't government . It's big tech.

 

Sooo true and bigtech, mostly Google, has weakened our patent system in ways that favor big tech over little tech.

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Would love to see the DOJ sue Abbott for not following federal law regarding flag etiquette. And take the case the trumpiest federal judge in Texas who will tell Abbott to follow federal law.

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2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Would love to see the DOJ sue Abbott for not following federal law regarding flag etiquette. And take the case the trumpiest federal judge in Texas who will tell Abbott to follow federal law.

I kind of doubt anything will be done concerning the disrespect to the office of President and to the flag, because dystopian non-fiction is the shittiest of genres.

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2 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

I just scrolled through the top 10 on Netflix and it makes perfect sense that American’s re-elected Trump. The average American is a fat, fucking potato brain that watches hours of the most mind numbing shit every day. 

Tik tok/instagram/youtube/facebook are even worse. 

I'd love to know the percentage of Americans who haven't read a single book in the last ten years. I'd bet willing to bet it's shockingly high.

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14 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

I'd love to know the percentage of Americans who haven't read a single book in the last ten years. I'd bet willing to bet it's shockingly high.

Well something like 20% of the adult pop in the US is illiterate so start there and move up rapidly. 

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1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

I'd love to know the percentage of Americans who haven't read a single book in the last ten years. I'd bet willing to bet it's shockingly high.

 

trump can't read 

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On 1/11/2025 at 10:40 AM, RomaVicta said:

 

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Yeah, um, I don’t think that’s the right connotation for that pic. They’re not baited and hooked. They’re eager to swallow a load. They’re whores, not fish. 

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12 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Yeah, um, I don’t think that’s the right connotation for that pic. They’re not baited and hooked. They’re eager to swallow a load. They’re whores, not fish. 

I was just humoring my notions of what should become of such persons not trying to go metaphorical, though I see how you took it that way.

Nope. It'd just amuse me to see them thus captured and hanging with the doomed fish. Billionaire marauders bring that out in me. I once lived in a republic that scorned robber barons rather than exalted them.

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3 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

I was just humoring my notions of what should become of such persons not trying to go metaphorical, though I see how you took it that way.

Nope. It'd just amuse me to see them thus captured and hanging with the doomed fish. Billionaire marauders bring that out in me. I once lived in a republic that scorned robber barons rather than exalted them.

I guess I’m a little more cynical than you are because I don’t think they’re going to suffer at all. I think they’ll be licking the jizz off each other.  

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2 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I guess I’m a little more cynical than you are because I don’t think they’re going to suffer at all. I think they’ll be licking the jizz off each other.  

I don't think they're going to suffer, either. I must be particularly opaque today. 

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23 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

I don't think they're going to suffer, either. I must be particularly opaque today. 

Maybe it’s your use of words like “captured” and “doomed” which sound to me like wishful thinking. They’re neither of those things. They’re winning. They’re debasing themselves and it’s shameful. But it’s going to work.

Here’s another take: 

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10 hours ago, David Dennison said:

I'd love to know the percentage of Americans who haven't read a single book in the last ten years. I'd bet willing to bet it's shockingly high.

 

10 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

Well something like 20% of the adult pop in the US is illiterate so start there and move up rapidly. 

 

9 hours ago, elfenix said:

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listening and watching chuck grassley attempt to "read" his fellating intro for bondi's confirmation hearing this morning made me want to fly to the sun.

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OK, don't refer to grown-ups (even batshit crazy ones) as children.  Still, got to love Nancy growing with...

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Of course, she only meant to, you know, discuss policy some more.

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Don't you call me a child. I'll go outside and fight you right now! I'm a full grown, mature woman! Put up yer dukes!

 

In the end, the MAGA right's destruction of irony may be it's most painful stroke.

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10 hours ago, elfenix said:

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Pour another one out for @YGIFS

 

1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Yeah, um, I don’t think that’s the right connotation for that pic. They’re not baited and hooked. They’re eager to swallow a load. They’re whores, not fish. 

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27 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:

OK, don't refer to grown-ups (even batshit crazy ones) as children.  Still, got to love Nancy growing with...

Come At Me Bro How Bow Dat GIF

Of course, she only meant to, you know, discuss policy some more.

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She's doing her damnedest to join MTG and Bobo on the Evil Axis of dipshit GQP Representatives isn't she? Before recently, I didn't she was as stupid as those two but maybe this requires re-examination.

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30 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:

OK, don't refer to grown-ups (even batshit crazy ones) as children.  Still, got to love Nancy growing with...

Come At Me Bro How Bow Dat GIF

Of course, she only meant to, you know, discuss policy some more.

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Dear Nancy,

Shut the fuck up, you stupid cunt. 

Sincerely,

Errbody

 

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4 minutes ago, C-Man said:

She's doing her damnedest to join MTG and Bobo on the Evil Axis of dipshit GQP Representatives isn't she? Before recently, I didn't she was as stupid as those two but maybe this requires re-examination.

She's not nearly as stupid as Bobo or MTG, but she's been out crazying the shit out of both of them for the better part of a year.  At the levels these 3 women (and of course many of the men) are at, crazy vs stupid becomes a distinction without much difference.

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50 minutes ago, TexasHooch said:

OK, don't refer to grown-ups (even batshit crazy ones) as children.  Still, got to love Nancy growing with...

Come At Me Bro How Bow Dat GIF

Of course, she only meant to, you know, discuss policy some more.

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Things That Didn't Happen for $500, Alex.  That would have made the news....

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