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Post by lucky4u on Feb 22, 2014 16:13:10 GMT -5
One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society Worth a full read and listening to the audio recorded at the event. It so reminds me of all those stories about courts rife with debauchery and lavishness from the dressing of new inductees in over the top drag to the tossing of petit fours at the stage (petit fours are basically tiny, heavily decorated cakes and savories). The song, "I Believe", which is a parody of a Mormon song, apparently, is really very interesting when you can actually hear the words of it. Overall behavior from the recordings? Hard to imagine that these are supposed to be the upper crust of the Wall Street world when they are behaving like drunk rowdies in a local dive bar. Fall of Rome indeed.
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Post by purplehazeleyes on Feb 22, 2014 16:20:58 GMT -5
It's funny because if it were a group of guys from the inner city, there would be police statements stating how they were having a meeting full of "gang activity"…. Discussing, gloating, planning crimes is a-ok for the upper echelons of society though.
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Post by lucky4u on Feb 22, 2014 16:36:23 GMT -5
Absolutely. If any other organization had engaged in these activities at a hotel, I'm sure that the hotel management would've had quite a problem with it as well--especially throwing food around in what is clearly a very pretty room. But hey, these people are so wealthy that they are above management, public, political and justice approbation. It's just remarkable to me that it seems that every system seems to end up like this--the development of an upper echelon that feels that they are above everyone else and behaves in whatever way they chose because they can. It almost seems like it's done in defiance of social mores to show just how powerful they are. Historically, it never seems to end well either.
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Post by redsoxfan on Feb 22, 2014 16:42:04 GMT -5
This is no big deal. Have you ever been to Las Vegas? And those are everyday people.
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Post by area51 on Feb 22, 2014 16:48:24 GMT -5
It seems to take all kinds of people and there is no one missing ..Hardly anything to be disgusted about unless you actually share in that kind of glory .:>)
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Post by burnnotice on Feb 22, 2014 17:32:56 GMT -5
Go to any Private country club, Yacht harbor, Bohemian Grove, Skull and Bones type fraternity, etc; they are proud of the double standard and flaunt their money and power.
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Post by BlackHawk on Feb 22, 2014 17:37:28 GMT -5
What double standard?
People have freaky parties at hotels all the time take players ball held in Chicago, pimping is seen as a crime but they still allow them to spend their money just like the elite.
The issue with them talking about us lowly peasants in no different then us talking about them.
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Post by lucky4u on Feb 22, 2014 17:40:57 GMT -5
This is no big deal. Have you ever been to Las Vegas? And those are everyday people. Yeah, I have, actually and I didn't see large groups of people behaving like this. In fact, what I did see were people getting the boot from the casino floor for being "disorderly".
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Post by nsainvader on Feb 22, 2014 17:50:40 GMT -5
Go to any Private country club, Yacht harbor, Bohemian Grove, Skull and Bones type fraternity, etc; they are proud of the double standard and flaunt their money and power. My fiance worked in a building that was dominated by oil companies and apparently they threw a party and had posted the images of that party on a bulletin board with comments on one of the floors. He was really tempted to take photos of the entire thing because it was so over the top offensive but knew that he would lose his job if he did. Absolutely. Private country club, not so sure. My family were members of a private country club and it was pretty civil there though it would've only been upper middle class level.
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Post by illuminati on Feb 22, 2014 18:01:02 GMT -5
Can't watch video, but I can tell you that I have a family member, married to a person that works for a railway. They rent out hotel rooms every year, at a casino. The stories and pictures I've seen, about what goes on there, even made ME embarrassed. And they haven't been kicked out yet. So there are everyday, average people that get away with some pretty crazy things. Especially when alcohol is flowing, free.
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