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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

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.

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

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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'.

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

How many fucking abortions do you think Trump has had? Are you really that dumb? He wants the vote of these backward assholes. Like you can trust Trump. Yeah... and the lobby groups OWN him. Castro had a great dream that was impossible to implement. That doesn't make it any less great.

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?

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.

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

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

Ready for that chocolate revolver yet?

Send in the clowns...

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.

Who's a good boy? Roof! 😃

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

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

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?

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.