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[Not the Onion] For those who complain that CEO salaries are too high... (hexbear.net)

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Call me Craig, not Dr. Everett. Finance prof @ Pepperdine Graziadio Business School. Exec Director of Most Fundable Companies List and Private Capital Mkts Proj

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[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 77 points 2 weeks ago

Murdering one CEO is evil but denying claims leading to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths is just good business sense. Normal country

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 39 points 2 weeks ago

Mark Twain "two reigns of terror" quote goes here

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 37 points 2 weeks ago

There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror —that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

[-] ICEMAN@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

Damn, this Mark Twain fellow could write.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

I think about that quote every single day

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago

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Call me Craig, not Dr. Everett. Finance prof @ Pepperdine Graziadio Business School. Exec Director of Most Fundable Companies List and Private Capital Mkts Proj

[-] regul@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

Pepperdine is in Malibu, for context.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

After I saw your comment I thought "Malibu U" would be a great name for a fictional university in a movie. I googled it and it turns out that Malibu U was a 1960s tv variety show.

Malibu U is an American variety show that aired in the summer of 1967 on ABC. The series starred Ricky Nelson, and aired on Friday evenings from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m. In the series, Nelson starred as the "Dean of the Drop-Ins" of a fictional college called Malibu U. Regulars included Robie Porter as "President of the Student Body" and the Mali-beauties dancers.

In each episode three well-known performers, called "Visiting Professors," sang. Two of the performers were filmed on the beach, and the third was filmed in another unusual location. On the July 28, 1967 episode Leonard Nimoy sang the novelty song The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. Other guest stars included Annette Funicello, Don Ho and The Four Seasons with Frankie Valli.

Some of the classes taught at Malibu U were surfing and sunbathing. A newspaper article stated that the series would "present the new fads, fashions and foibles of the young world."

[-] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's also a very Christian "University".

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Healthcare insurance is one of the industries where it is literally in the company's best financial interests to NOT do what they are paid to do

And that will lead to people dying

[-] courier8377@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

And in every other industry, financial interests are still paramount, with the product or service being an incidental mechanism to support those interests

[-] miz@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago

So you compare a country to what it came from, with all its imperfections... and those who demand instant perfection, the day after the revolution they get up and say "are there civil liberties for the fascists?? Do they get to have their newspapers and their radio programmes? Are they gonna be able to keep all their farms?"

The passion that some of our liberals feel the day after the revolution - the passion and concern they feel for the fascists, the civil rights and civil liberties of those fascists - who were dumping and destroying and murdering people before.

My criteria is— what happens to those people that couldn't read? What happens to those babies that couldn't eat, that died of hunger? See that's why I support revolution. The revolution that feeds the children gets my support.

—Michael Parenti