Journal zogger's Journal: Do the Hustle 4
"selling a car with faulty brakes and then buying an insurance policy on the buyer of those cars."
This ain't getting sold down the river, it is having the river diverted away from you. It's really *that bad*.
What gets me is, so many people willingly and fervently trust these guys, think this scene is just great. Man..just, man... and every payday they fork over more of their wealth to these guys, rather than investing in themselves. They keep buying these lies, "investing" in congames.
All these little internet phishing scams and so on..chump change, but it gets the press. Nice diversionary tactic to keep the serfs amused. One day they'll wake up, notice their river is gone, then have their respective political cult water diversion "leaders" tell them that it was all those serf's over there fault. And they'll believe it, and get all mad and loud etc, demand revenge on other innocent serf victims.
Gonna get uglier and uglier now.
There's an old phrase that covers this situation (Score:2)
I believe it goes something like 'A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes.' But I think that firing squad is too good for these fucks. A better solution, in my opinion, let's force all these fat cats to become the indentured servants of the poorest, least cultured trailer dwelling yokels we can find.
"Hey, Chadsworth, git me 'nother keystone out'ta fridge, and go change lil' Taylor's diapers, the whole double-wide is starting to stink worse'n usual!"
I'm one of the "chumps"..., (Score:1)
...because I know it's ultimately the serfs' fault -- people don't have to invest with crooks or get mortgages from crooks or click on links in spam emails from crooks, but they do. And because most of us are idiots, we all have to pay the various prices for these respective manifestations of the little guys' idiocy. "Innocent serf victims" my ass. Blaming hustlers is like blaming the Devil for the Fall of Man -- sure the tempter to do evil is a collosal scumbag, but the Average Joe deciding to become a *co
opt in (Score:1)
How is it the serf's fault when the king's ministers here decided to bailout their gambling buddies bad gambling markers using the serf's wealth and income, and put them into year's or decade's long debt, and debased the official king's approved currency which they are *forced* to use to pay what they are forced to pay into the king's coffers? If you say "no" and send them a notice that you are "opting out" of this coercion, the king sends his hessians to arrest you and arrest your property.
I don't see a si
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
It is the serfs' fault in this land, because we voluntarily opt in who our kings will be. This blame only being tempered by the amount our would-be kings lie about who they are. Obama is by far the president, in my lifetime, maybe in all the time of America, who has the most grossly misrepresented himself during his campaign. But even he didn't say that he was against the banking bailouts, IIRC. So if most people really cared or were bothered by that, they would've only chosen a candidate that was against s