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JackRiddler

(24,979 posts)
18. Vultures are mass rapists.
Fri Aug 22, 2014, 07:00 AM
Aug 2014

It's stunning that people who gain NOTHING from this crime, but who just watch this shit on CNBC or whatever, actually believe in the ideology so completely that they convince themselves Singer et al. are engaging in moral and admirable behavior.

Maybe it's not so stunning? After all, kings and conquerors have in their own times been celebrated for conducting massacres and genocides, etc. Columbus still has a federal holiday. Quite a few living war criminals are openly celebrated.

Of course, the vultures themselves KNOW otherwise. They can't afford to believe in Friedman-Rand fairy tales. They know there's profit in burning down cities, poisoning oceans, clear-cutting forests, so they do whatever it takes: why not make it by forcing starvation on some Argentineans you don't know? You'll never have to see them!

And what this really shows is that capitalism has run out of tricks and is only left with returning to its origins in the moral equivalent of cannibalism. This is how it "grows." Capitalism has nothing left to offer, it will continue descending into ever-worse moral depravity.

Touché. You vultures want your red meat, fly down to Buenos Aires and get it. Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #1
And when the vultures arrive in Buenos Aires they could be introduced to the inside of an Louisiana1976 Aug 2014 #16
Contempt? EX500rider Aug 2014 #2
Maybe NY court will levy Argentine assets in USA Cicada Aug 2014 #3
Argentina should retaliate. JackRiddler Aug 2014 #4
I Agree Completely, Sir The Magistrate Aug 2014 #12
Tell us how you really feel alcibiades_mystery Aug 2014 #13
Exactly. Argentina should tell the "barbarian plunderers" to pound sand. Louisiana1976 Aug 2014 #14
+1. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #19
Cry me a river Morganfleeman Aug 2014 #5
Make those people starve! JackRiddler Aug 2014 #10
That's right. What the vultures want to do to Argentina is financial rape. It's capitalism at its Louisiana1976 Aug 2014 #15
And the vulture funds VOLUTARILY chose to buy those very discounted Argentine bonds. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #20
maybe their assets will and maybe they won't griloco Sep 2014 #40
Cristina's bag of tricks is empty quadrature Aug 2014 #6
Expropriate U.S. assets. JackRiddler Aug 2014 #11
That worked out so well for Cuba FrodosPet Aug 2014 #25
Landowners from other countries already took compensation offers from Cuba long ago. Judi Lynn Aug 2014 #34
A lot better than what would have happened... JackRiddler Aug 2014 #35
Sounds like nothing much changed. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #21
Earlier story posted at D.U.: US Council of Foreign Affairs supports Argentina, blasts Judge Griesa Judi Lynn Aug 2014 #7
This is baloney of the highest order Morganfleeman Aug 2014 #8
Hmmm... That's borderline delusional. Adrahil Aug 2014 #9
Argentina is not broke, how did you conjure that up? The Council may know more about it than you Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #17
Vultures are mass rapists. JackRiddler Aug 2014 #18
so how much payment(by Argentina) is enough? quadrature Aug 2014 #22
That seems to be what is in dispute. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #23
And What Is Not In Dispute, Sir, Is What A Great Majority Of The Bond-Holders Agreed To Accept The Magistrate Aug 2014 #24
You must know I agree, Sir. bemildred Aug 2014 #26
I Understand, Sir The Magistrate Aug 2014 #28
So you did, Sir. bemildred Aug 2014 #29
'paid in Buenos Aires' is misleading headline, better would be NOT paid quadrature Aug 2014 #32
Indeed, Sir: Not Paid The Full Amount The Magistrate Aug 2014 #33
BRICS will lend them money. the waning of the west? griloco Sep 2014 #38
their country, their rules Travis_0004 Aug 2014 #27
I know if I was christx30 Aug 2014 #31
yur a bit behind the times griloco Sep 2014 #37
Two creditors tried to fuck over an entire country, and other creditors to boot. riqster Aug 2014 #30
Nobel Prize Winner Sides With Argentina Over Debt Swap Issue Judi Lynn Aug 2014 #36
Argentina specifically gave that NY magistrate the power to judge their bonds hack89 Sep 2014 #39
Queue new Falklands crisis in 3...2... Calista241 Sep 2014 #41
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