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Toilet & Bowels 03.03.2009 08:58 PM

The New Face of Evil
 
Terrorists are old hat, bankers are the new public enemy number one. What say ye?

pbradley 03.03.2009 09:19 PM

Zen Buddhists.

tw2113 03.03.2009 10:01 PM

Poll makers

Pax Americana 03.03.2009 10:29 PM

The Jonas Brothers.

Youth_Against_Facism 03.04.2009 04:16 AM

Everyone on SYG could form one big terrorist alliance a blow the shit out of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda and other organizations. We'd be unstoppable I tells ya! UNSTOPPABLE!!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHA!

SYRFox 03.04.2009 04:29 AM

this is the new face of evil

 


"let's blow some shit up okay okay!!"
"yah imma destroying the world!!!"
"here we go!!"
"yeaaaaaaaaaaaah"

teletubbies will be back by 2009 to plot up against the world. be ready.

cars_willkillyou 03.04.2009 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Pax Americana
The Jonas Brothers.


i have heard of the jonas brothers. i dont know a damn thing about them though. I know that obamas daughter is crazy about them and that she found them in a closet at the white house or some bullshit like that. Who the fuck are they though, and why are they posted every fucking where?

Apparently they are "musicians" but I've never heard their music.

My name is Jonas. I'm carrying the world.

cars_willkillyou 03.04.2009 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Youth_Against_Facism
Everyone on SYG could form one big terrorist alliance a blow the shit out of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda and other organizations. We'd be unstoppable I tells ya! UNSTOPPABLE!!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHA!


I pledge my undying allegiance and loyalty unto you. What is thy bidding, my master?

_slavo_ 03.04.2009 08:01 AM

As public surveys in my country tend to say, it's the Hungarians.

cars_willkillyou 03.04.2009 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by _slavo_
As public surveys in my country tend to say, it's the Hungarians.


i agree with yr cuntry.

Toilet & Bowels 03.04.2009 09:41 AM

bankers have done a far better job at undermining society than terrorists have, i demand lynching by mobs, & show trials in the soon to be formed "The People's Court of Liberty" with all defendents being executed by decapitation.

floatingslowly 03.04.2009 09:51 AM

the revolution will not be message boarded.

Glice 03.04.2009 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
Terrorists are old hat, bankers are the new public enemy number one. What say ye?


Aren't you making a similar point to a well-known group of terrorists who flew into a well-known centre of trade?

I've worked in banks in the past. It's astonishing the number of jobs that are mere flack that are there. Where I work at the moment, there's a handful of superfluous positions (slowly being axed/ re-constituted). When I worked in banks there were whole departments, buildings with hundreds of people doing jobs for no ostensible reason.

Q. Why are we doing this?
A. Because it is done.
Q. Why is it done?
A. It is not done yet - we are doing it now.

Funnily enough, whenever I've even approached the public sector, I've seen masses of very busy people doing worthwhile (albeit dull-as-shit) jobs. 5 years ago, the total publicisation of banks would've brought me out in hives, but it's clear that bankers are incapable of not being gratuitous cunts.

demonrail666 03.04.2009 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Youth_Against_Facism
Everyone on SYG could form one big terrorist alliance a blow the shit out of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda and other organizations. We'd be unstoppable I tells ya! UNSTOPPABLE!!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHA!


How would we do this exactly? Via one massive collective Neg-Rep?

!@#$%! 03.04.2009 12:11 PM

the renewed face of evil in america:

 


makes you wanna puke your breakfast, eh?

Toilet & Bowels 03.05.2009 07:10 AM

Now that it has been established that the Bankers are more evil than the Terrorists, we need to establish whether they are more evil than the Paedophiles.

The Usher 03.05.2009 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
Now that it has been established that the Bankers are more evil than the Terrorists, we need to establish whether they are more evil than the Paedophiles.



Most bankers are paedos

Toilet & Bowels 03.05.2009 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Glice
Aren't you making a similar point to a well-known group of terrorists who flew into a well-known centre of trade?



Not really, the Terrorists might have leaped into first place with that attack but at that time there was no clear leader in the top of the evil league, certainly not the Bankers. Saddam Hussein was effectively neutered at this point, Milosevic was no longer active, aside from Paedophiles there wasn't really anyone prioducing any particularly notable works of evil. Sure, you had the likes of Kim Jong Il, Mugabe & the Taleban pottering around, but none of them were really doing anything that meant much to anyone beyond their own back yards. Obviously there were the Corporations too, but while their brand of evil is global and consistent, they've never really had the flair to get to the top, plus they half-heartedly try to keep their evil on the down low and combined with their tendency to stick to their guns it makes them someonewhat of a dull work horse to the viewer, having said that Enron did have a decent stab at things a few years later.
Anyway, The Terrorists had been languishing for years by this point, it was indeed a bold and daring play to take down the WTC, and you've got to respect Bin Laden for pulling it off, although I don't think he was really prepared for the quite how galvinising the effect of his actions would be on his rivals. Bush and his cohorts realised they'd been resting on their laurels since stealing the election and really got into gear, and while they did put in the hours and came close to toppling the Terrorists, nothing they acheived really caught the public's imagination the same way Bin Laden & co did.
I do think though that historians will come to agree that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their cadre of Republican flunkys were actually more evil than the Terrorists, they just didn't have the panache to be top dogs in the eyes of the general public at the time, I think this was largely due to their insistence on portraying themselves as the good guys, and while being evil but appearing good effectively raises your cache in the eyes of the discerning spectator, I think they over estimated the sophistication of the average punter in terms of them picking up on the subtleties of their game plan and it was surprising that they would use that tack as Bush's rise to the White House was pretty much dependent on exploiting the idiocy of the man on the street. Essentialy, Bush & chums were just like their allies, the Corporations, but on a more dramatic scale, i.e. no great spectacles of evil, just thoroughness, no qualms about dispatching with any competitors who can't be put to use (i.e. Taleban, Saddam, etc), and a keen eye for making conditions particularly grueling for your successors.

It seems apparent that the Bankers have learned from the Terrorists how a good PR stunt (cf. the WTC) can really stave off the competition for a good while, and provided the bumblings of Obama & Brown don't put out their blaze then it seems the Bankers will be top of the league for at least a few years to come, although it did seem for a moment this January that they might have been pipped at the post by the Israeli Government.

The question that remains to be seen is that if the conspiracy theories are right and Bush was in fact responsible for 9/11, obvioulsy this would raise is stock to such an extent that he would most likely rule the roost of evil for the rest of the 21st Century, much in the same way Hitler did back in the 20th Century. Naturally, if this turns out to be the case then the Terrorists will lose all credibilty and plummet down the table to join all mouth and no trousers outfits like Iran, the Satanists & the BNP

Pax Americana 03.05.2009 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by cars_willkillyou
i have heard of the jonas brothers. i dont know a damn thing about them though. I know that obamas daughter is crazy about them and that she found them in a closet at the white house or some bullshit like that. Who the fuck are they though, and why are they posted every fucking where?

Apparently they are "musicians" but I've never heard their music.


Musicians? Nah, they're actually cyborgs constructed by the Disney Corporation. They were designed to make you think they're musicians, meanwhile they're slowly conquering the world.

These are the Jonas Brothers.


 

Genteel Death 04.05.2013 05:10 AM

The enemy is seldom at home.
http://www.vanityfair.com/society/20...de-park-london

!@#$%! 04.06.2013 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pax Americana
Musicians? Nah, they're actually cyborgs constructed by the Disney Corporation. They were designed to make you think they're musicians, meanwhile they're slowly conquering the world.

These are the Jonas Brothers.


 


that's the same guy photoshopped 3 different ways, right?

Toilet & Bowels 04.07.2013 09:59 AM

Man it must have been a slow day at work when I started this thread

Toilet & Bowels 04.13.2013 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Genteel Death


Great article

Nefeli 04.14.2013 11:46 AM

the slightest suggestion that i might work again in a bank, makes my stomach turn and brings tears in my eyes.

even though my time runs out -money are running out.

last week i did an application in a contest (?) for positions in the ministry of ecomonics.
i have gone under the same procedure 5 times, since 2000 and it is sad that my experience has verified what people say: that this procedure, the system they have to chose people for such jobs, is corrupted as well.
the job now, isnt ideal - last 2 times it was for the central bank, they were taking 10 people each time and i was smth like the 15th, because i was 'fucking up' in the 2nd step, which was interview.
now its more positions for taxes smth department and i hope it will be for reporting and checking up behind an office and not for harrassing people.
either way, i ll try to do good. and that, if i get chosen.

Nefeli 04.14.2013 11:58 AM

and when i used to be asked 'where do you work?', i always replied 'at evil'.

banks have been the evil for so long and now its the time for them to pay.
unfortunately, everybody pays one way or the other and still most of the relatively few in number big fat meats, the brains of evil, are safe and enjoying their rotten wealth.

!@#$%! 04.14.2013 12:15 PM

i keep my money in a credit union (not-for-profit co-op). it's a bit clunky but i like them.

Toilet & Bowels 04.14.2013 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nefeli
and when i used to be asked 'where do you work?', i always replied 'at evil'.

banks have been the evil for so long and now its the time for them to pay.
unfortunately, everybody pays one way or the other and still most of the relatively few in number big fat meats, the brains of evil, are safe and enjoying their rotten wealth.


I hope things get better. If they don't you can come and live under our floor.

!@#$%! 04.14.2013 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
I hope things get better. If they don't you can come and live under our floor.


buy one of her paintings

(or sell it, too)

Toilet & Bowels 04.14.2013 04:13 PM

I would if I had any kind of cash to spare.

!@#$%! 04.14.2013 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
I would if I had any kind of cash to spare.


ha ha i have the same problem.

i thought you were art-connected from school-- t&b gallery.

dead_battery 04.14.2013 04:39 PM

so is the problem really that some bad bankers are fucking us all. like the system would work fine if it weren't just for these guys, these bad guys fucking it up for the rest of us.

this is an inverse of the narrative "its all the fault of welfare claimants and lazy scroungers" that you hear on the right.

moralizing and hoping that some no one will suddenly exist and have the clout to take down these cunts is useless. no.1 they dont exist. no 2. they would be murdered. no 3. they would need more money than the establishment to take it on.

dead_battery 04.14.2013 04:41 PM

now terrorists on the other hand, there you get the full package, better than an orgasm. you're sitting there broke survielled terrorized and unemployed in this neo liberal death camp, forcibly subjected to the celebrity flouncing of the new oligarchic class, then all of a sudden mohammed el hook hands shows up and blows the rancid fucks apart, all shimmering blood and organs splattering on the camera lense. all that is solid turned into flying viscera smacking off the screen separating you from reality.

but of course they dont do that do they? they failed us all. they betrayed us all. our governments were right there, waiting to be suicided bombed, and they didnt show up.

!@#$%! 04.14.2013 09:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dead_battery
so is the problem really that some bad bankers are fucking us all. like the system would work fine if it weren't just for these guys, these bad guys fucking it up for the rest of us.

this is an inverse of the narrative "its all the fault of welfare claimants and lazy scroungers" that you hear on the right.

moralizing and hoping that some no one will suddenly exist and have the clout to take down these cunts is useless. no.1 they dont exist. no 2. they would be murdered. no 3. they would need more money than the establishment to take it on.


i don't know what's your take on this but for me it's a personal issue-- nefeli who at heart is an artist but knows finance used to work in a bank for a day job. she's been free of that mad men horrorshow for a while, but as money dries out the thought of going back to that place (or any other like it) kills her. who cares about the big schemes of the universe or whatever-- this is a person we know.

me i'm for her staying clear of that thing. she should make BIG PORTRAITS. and sell them. who is buying art these days? oh! the fuckers at the banks! lol. dammit. but her local banks are down so i say england? england!

anyway i wish my sonic sisterk both freedom and fortune. also, i'm slightly soused. sue me.

ps- the t-shirt economy!


(it might come handy)

Toilet & Bowels 04.15.2013 02:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !@#$%!
so i say england? england!




Indeed

Nefeli 04.15.2013 08:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
I hope things get better. If they don't you can come and live under our floor.


thank you dear. just knowing this means and helps a lot.


Quote:

Originally Posted by dead_battery
so is the problem really that some bad bankers are fucking us all. like the system would work fine if it weren't just for these guys, these bad guys fucking it up for the rest of us.



saying one thing, doesnt mean that one thinks that only this one thing exists.
i was talking about my experiences in finance sector, smth i have been done in here over the past decade. those posts, not many, are gone now, but its funny because i was since the start demoralized and had seen the reality, so none of this 'crisis' came as a huge shock.
banks and stock markets arent charity, they want to make profit, but they have a specific role in economies (growth), which was majorly abused by the banks and stockmarkets themselves and governments of course, during last 15 years or more.
i m sorry, but i ll stop here, because a) its pointless to repeat myself further, b) its pointless for me at least, to name again what brought us 'here' - i want to hear solutions, c) all this depresses me just to type it and other things that i d like to talk about, i prefer to do it not online..
i have been facing the war against working people for a decade (the crisis in stock market sector started long ago); its victims are not only people who have lost their jobs, its also people who still have theirs.



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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

me i'm for her staying clear of that thing. she should make BIG PORTRAITS. and sell them. who is buying art these days? oh! the fuckers at the banks! lol. dammit. but her local banks are down so i say england? england!

anyway i wish my sonic sisterk both freedom and fortune. also, i'm slightly soused. sue me.

ps- the t-shirt economy!


(it might come handy)


ha! thats what i m doing. working currently on the second face. i want to make a series of those. and until i get to the point that i want.
thank you for all the nice words and wishes! and the link.

!@#$%! 04.15.2013 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dead_battery
now terrorists on the other hand, there you get the full package, better than an orgasm. you're sitting there broke survielled terrorized and unemployed in this neo liberal death camp, forcibly subjected to the celebrity flouncing of the new oligarchic class, then all of a sudden mohammed el hook hands shows up and blows the rancid fucks apart, all shimmering blood and organs splattering on the camera lense. all that is solid turned into flying viscera smacking off the screen separating you from reality.

but of course they dont do that do they? they failed us all. they betrayed us all. our governments were right there, waiting to be suicided bombed, and they didnt show up.


so how great do you feel today? no?

dead_battery 04.15.2013 06:24 PM

not guilty.

keep poppin pimples 04.15.2013 06:32 PM

i don't see anything wrong with terrorists, if they blew up some arizona INS office instead of picking on some harmless jocks i'd party for them

!@#$%! 04.15.2013 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by dead_battery
not guilty.


i read your pre-edited "dead as usual" response-- but with an 8 year old rancid fuck among the dead, i though you'd be howling with transorgasmic ecstasy.

keep poppin pimples 04.15.2013 09:42 PM

some recent tweets pretty much predicted this happened, would like for tesla69 to come shed some light on the situation too

 

 


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