on January 21, 2025, 1:01 am, in reply to "You don't need a defence, we all live our lives as we see fit"
I don’t look down on uneducated people. I care enormously about uneducated people. I left finance to work in education because I think it’s the only protection people have against rich people. It’s probably futile but it’s the best contribution I can make. Do I still understand the financial markets? Sorry, yes, I do. Do have a fun life, despite losing both parents young and having to support two siblings, one with a serious lifelong illness, while they were both in school? Sorry, yes, I do.
You do realize that it’s not hypocritical to want a system to change and still benefit from that system, right? I vote and work hard and argue for and give away a large proportion of my resources to the cause of fairness. If I went and lived in a tree it wouldn’t make a bit of difference. The democrats and labour aren’t perfect but they’re better for the less-well off than the rightist parties. Would I prefer a utopia of all the talents? Of course I would.
Karl Marx was one of the most acute critics of capitalism ever to live and he played the market. JM Keynes too. In the current system we each get one vote. My voting center-left while not being a social worker isn’t hypocrisy in the least.
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But It has always been a bugbear of mine that when I told you that my mum, she's 80 years old now and living in Nottingham and going into the town centre daily, literally makes little packages for homeless people on the streets of Nottingham with some food, some gloves, a drink and some money - you said that was worthless when the same people voted for Brexit. You laughed when I said that sometimes misinformed people can be good people too, remember that? About 8 years ago. I remember.
But there you are, in Manhattan, not needing a car. You've always posted about how rich you are, how you're in financial services, how you post about crypto etc. Stocks and shares, markets this, markets that. So left wing. If only I could make a difference!!!
You don't even post who you are. Who are you? Who is hanssegers? What are you afraid of, are we going to short your portfolio?
You are the most self righteous person on this forum. You have an opinion on everything and you talk the good talk about wealth inequality, but in reality you're gaming the system and I didn't mind until you looked down upon the average person, the uneducated person with a good heart like my mum. And I've never forgot it. And here we are, 8 years later and you're still a clever cunt who talks about stuff they don't actually back up with their own lifestyle. That's why you didn't answer my car question, because you know that any answer puts you in the spotlight because we are all part of the system. And yet you, somehow, live this ethically wonderful life, working in finance and living in Manhattan. Really?
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yes, I have been storing that up for a while. Sorry to all. Previous Message
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private jet travel. “But what about the horse farm?” I asked, horse farms notoriously not being for-profit enterprises. Previous Message
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I say bought I mean leased, but same thing really. Previous Message
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It’s not like he’s been going around endorsing far right parties and slagging off anyone left of Il Duce Previous Message
anyone saying it wasn't is deluded.
I try and take a balanced view on these things and am less ideologically focussed than I was years back. But even to me, that was definitely a Nazi salute. No way he does that without understanding the significance. Previous Message
Looks like he meant it to me.
So what now.....are we all going to run round screaming for days about.....how many executive orders will take a back seat on peoples feeds while that happens?
When will we learn, most people dont care....they either ignore it, in a minority of cases support it and the majority see it for what a probably is, trolling designed to wind up liberals.
It was the same all through the campaign, days of talk about the rally and the Puerto Rico joke, all te liberal pundits loved it....gotcha....Puerto Ricans didnt care. Maybe if we they focused on how tariffs would raise prices for those Puerto Ricans it might have cut through.
I read the other week someone saying te left and centre needs its own answers instead of obsessing over the right. If the right leaves a shit on the pavement, instead of clearing it away and moving on, the liberals gather round the shit, poking it and prodding it, who left the shit, how long has it been there, what had they been eating.
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