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FarCenter (709 posts)     Mon Sep-29-08 09:06 PM
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Why were people upset about the attack on the World Trade Center? It was full of Wall Street firms.
 Advertisements [?]Wall Street begins about 4 blocks from the World Trade Center.

The Twin Towers were occupied mostly by investment bankers, finance companies, and traders.

For example, Cantor Fitzgerald lost a lot of people in the tower's collapse. They were all despicable bond trading types. Aren't you people glad they died?

I'm sure the Republicans are.
 







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What a bizarre post from FarCenter. This is so strange that Far is either deranged or a mole imho.

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Sebastian Doyle (968 posts)      Mon Sep-29-08 09:16 PM
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22. Well, the same criminal bastards were ultimately responsible for both
 But aside from that, your comparison is tasteless.


So much Irony here...




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Whether this is a mole or not is hard to tell but at the least gives voice to what DUmmies believe.
I haven`t checked that thread but bet many will wink at the op and then say it shouldn`t be said because it looks bad.

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27. locking
   
Over the top flamebait.
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For example, Cantor Fitzgerald lost a lot of people in the tower's collapse. They were all despicable bond trading types. Aren't you people glad they died?

I'm sure the Republicans are.


Uh, what?!

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Whether this is a mole or not is hard to tell but at the least gives voice to what DUmmies believe.
I haven`t checked that thread but bet many will wink at the op and then say it shouldn`t be said because it looks bad.


From the thread.

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CaliforniaPeggy  (1000+ posts)       Mon Sep-29-08 09:10 PM
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3. Tell me you're kidding!
 About 3000 people DIED.

Human beings, people with families, lives, jobs...

I don't get the joke, if that's what you intended...

ICK.
 

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quantessd  (1000+ posts)      Mon Sep-29-08 09:10 PM
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4. Flamebait. 
 I alerted this. 

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mike_c  (1000+ posts)       Mon Sep-29-08 09:11 PM
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7. go away, troll....
 eom

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[notsodumbhillbilly  (1000+ posts)       Mon Sep-29-08 09:12 PM
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11. This is one of the sickest posts I've ever seen.

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tabasco  (1000+ posts)       Mon Sep-29-08 09:13 PM
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14. Word of advice:
 Stop being a douchebag.

May be impossible for you.

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chefgirl  (1000+ posts)       Mon Sep-29-08 09:15 PM
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20. holy shit
 Ive read some real trash from time to time but this has got to be the worst filth Ive ever seen on DU.

Go buy yourself a soul. Christ sake!

-chef-

And I have not quoted all the condemnations.
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And I have not quoted all the condemnations.

Which would be just super Lanie if this was something that ALL of us had not seen sprinkled through the threads EVERY SINGLE DAY...  The comments made by the OP are not the first time this has been said at DU.  Far from it.

And by posters with a helluva lot higher post counts.





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mike_c  (1000+ posts)       Mon Sep-29-08 09:11 PM
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7. go away, troll....
 eom


And I have not quoted all the condemnations.

And WOW one of the paragons of virtue you quote to defend what a SUPER place DU is... Is none other than the asshole who said ALL U.S. Troops need to be prosecuted as war criminals and defends child molesters on an infrequent basis.  Nice pick there Sparkles.  :whatever:





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Whether this is a mole or not is hard to tell but at the least gives voice to what DUmmies believe.
I haven`t checked that thread but bet many will wink at the op and then say it shouldn`t be said because it looks bad.


From the thread.

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CaliforniaPeggy  (1000+ posts)       Mon Sep-29-08 09:10 PM
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3. Tell me you're kidding!
 About 3000 people DIED.

Human beings, people with families, lives, jobs...

I don't get the joke, if that's what you intended...

ICK.
 

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quantessd  (1000+ posts)      Mon Sep-29-08 09:10 PM
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4. Flamebait. 
 I alerted this. 

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mike_c  (1000+ posts)       Mon Sep-29-08 09:11 PM
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7. go away, troll....
 eom

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[notsodumbhillbilly  (1000+ posts)       Mon Sep-29-08 09:12 PM
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11. This is one of the sickest posts I've ever seen.

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tabasco  (1000+ posts)       Mon Sep-29-08 09:13 PM
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14. Word of advice:
 Stop being a douchebag.

May be impossible for you.

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chefgirl  (1000+ posts)       Mon Sep-29-08 09:15 PM
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20. holy shit
 Ive read some real trash from time to time but this has got to be the worst filth Ive ever seen on DU.

Go buy yourself a soul. Christ sake!

-chef-

And I have not quoted all the condemnations.

I have no DU account but would be curious what a post search of some of these folks would reveal.

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That person at DU and others who have expressed those sentiments to you I say.... :bird: :bird: :bird: :bird: :bird: :bird:

We had coworkers who knew, had family/friends, or worked with people in that building and given that my other half started his career in NY, any slight change of plan could have landed him there on that day, along with several other people we knew who regularly went for meetings in the WTC. Some of those people 'we' worked with were at Cantor. They weren't monsters...they happened to trade fixed income securities for a living, many were people in their late 20's/early 30's just starting to build their careers. There is some sickness among people who would cheer for murderers as victims and try to understand terrorists, but would condemn and applaud the death of people, who died horribly I might add, whose only fault is they made their living as part of the wheel of the economic system we have in this country. They, like anyone else here, were at the whim of the policy made by failures like Clinton, Greenspan, ACORN, and the Congressional Black Caucus. I'm starting really ponder more and more just how bad of a president Clinton really was now. That his policies lead to so many monumental failures in the end. That's a poll watcher for you.


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I have no DU account but would be curious what a post search of some of these folks would reveal.

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Example :

Search for CaliforniaPeggy +jan-02-08 site:democraticunderground.com

Substitute userID's and dates where required.


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[notsodumbhillbilly  (1000+ posts)       Mon Sep-29-08 09:12 PM
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11. This is one of the sickest posts I've ever seen.

As sick as that post was,there are other primitives{Iandb1 comes to mind  :bird:} Who have said things like that and worse! This one just didn't get sent down the simmer hole....yet! :whatever:
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I have no DU account but would be curious what a post search of some of these folks would reveal.

Google Is Thy Friend.

Example :

Search for CaliforniaPeggy +jan-02-08 site:democraticunderground.com

Substitute userID's and dates where required.



I did that and found that these were for the most part not your typical DUer.
The hillbilly primitive posts mostly about the weather in Tenn. it seems.

I stand by what I said and DU is more then willing to prove it time and time again.

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What a bizarre post from FarCenter. This is so strange that Far is either deranged or a mole imho.

 :lmao: I was gonna ask:  Whose mole is this, and why is it trying to infuse logic into the terminally illogical?
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From the thread.

And I have not quoted all the condemnations.

Gee imagine that.  Lanie defending the insane @sshole friends of hers at the DUmp.

Never saw THAT one coming.
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FarCenter (709 posts)     Mon Sep-29-08 09:06 PM
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Why were people upset about the attack on the World Trade Center? It was full of Wall Street firms.
 Advertisements [?]Wall Street begins about 4 blocks from the World Trade Center.

The Twin Towers were occupied mostly by investment bankers, finance companies, and traders.

For example, Cantor Fitzgerald lost a lot of people in the tower's collapse. They were all despicable bond trading types. Aren't you people glad they died?

I'm sure the Republicans are.


Even if you think they were bastards, they were still OUR bastards.  And you need a boot to the head.
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Even if you think they were bastards, they were still OUR bastards.  And you need a boot to the head.

The WTC was also the home of 90% of the television and radio production and engineering facilities in the New York area........I lost some good friends that day......

F/U Dummie!!!!!

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Lost a comrade from my old NYC Army Reserve unit that day, myself, doc.
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I damn near lost a friend that day--he was in Engine 7 that day.  Two guys who graduated from my school after me were bond traders for Cantor Fitz--since the college was about 2000 people in all, I sort-of knew them, and they were pretty good hockey players.

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Why were people upset about the attack on the World Trade Center? It was full of Wall Street firms.

For the same reason we'd be upset if someone blew up a bus full of DUmmies on their way to a drum circle.

It is a part of having non-negotiable moral values, and a respect for innocent human life regardless of how much we disagree with the particular human(s) in question.

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From the thread.

And I have not quoted all the condemnations.















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