I love (((rootless cosmopolitans))) crying about the markets crashing, as if the markets matter to ordinary citizens. #Brexit
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"(((rootless cosmopolitans)))"
With this entry in mind, I wonder whether he is trying to insinuate something about the identity about these "rootless cosmopolitans", and I doubt he means aristocrats...
"[A]s if the markets matter to ordinary citizens."
Of course. It is not like many of them work for corporations or something...
I work for a tech startup. If the market crashes, we're less likely to be bought out.
NOTE: I'm an employee, not a founder. If I had the kind of money that would take, I'd lose my ordinary citizen card.
Matt Forney uses multiple brackets around "rootless cosmopolitans," a tactic also used by anti-Semites to identify suspected or confirmed Jews online, to target them for harassment and abuse. I "wonder" who he's insinuating....
Anybody with an investment cares, anyone with a pension, anyone with a business, anyone who buys and sells, anyone with insurance. Only the guy sleeping on cardboard in the doorway - he doesn't care.
...until you're back in a recession, you lose your job because of the impact on the economy; no investment from EU countries. You're evicted; but hey, at least house prices are down! [/"Daily FAIL"]
But at least you got what you wanted, o 'Leave' voters.
At least my conscience is clear. For when the above happens to just one 'Leave' voter, at least I'll be able to say 'Don't blame me. I voted 'Remain '.
Me, there's always people needing their computers repaired/upgraded. I'm all right, Jack.
Moral: There's an extremely good reason why the phrase 'Be careful what you wish for' exists.
Oh, so proles are immune to the consequences of what the bullies and bosses do to the world around them? He market has become an intruding parasite we can't ignore. As annoying and harmful as it is we need to care. Hard fluctuations cost people jobs, especially the vulnerable underemployed class.
It is exactly the opposite of what you say: the investor class has so much money that they can insulate themselves from economic fluctuations. If a man with a billion dollars loses 90% of his wealth, he still has 100 million dollars; enough to be set for life and also buy a whole lot of post-crash undervalued stock.
Ordinary people routinely lose everything as the result of market crash. Employers slash jobs, move to cheaper countries, or go under while the rich float away on golden parachutes.
Basically, the ordinary people are so susceptible to rhetoric that the rich have them fighting their battles, against themselves. Nice job dismantling your own lives, jackasses.
This tweet is a great example of how single-mindedly nationalist the alt-right is; just how out of it do you have to be to pretend markets don't matter, less than 10 years after the 2008 crash? I remember Roosh tweeting not long ago about how if he was a banker he'd try to fuck Britain up as revenge/deterrence for Brexit. Even supposing they could and would deliberately, he betrays a profound ignorance in essentially saying that economic effects external to conscious conspiracies are insignificant.
This is an example of a problem that, to be honest, is typically more common on the left, namely considering material factors as degenerate distractions from what REALLY matters. The GOP largely avoided this problem as it's the party of tax cuts and "job creators," but since they're a bunch of cuckservatives the alt-right can go on living in the magical realm of pure ideological togetherness strains of leftists have occupied.
In short, Forney and the alt-right are Nazi hippies.
After the Lehman Brothers bank (with headquarter in the US) declared bankruptcy and stared the Financial Crisis avalanche, I lost my job in Sweden. So yeah, markets matter to ordinary citizens.
Ordinary citizens work in the companies that do business on the markets, nitwit.
Re Brexit voters:
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