#profiteering
Scenario 1:
Mr President:
"Good news, the war will end soon"
Stock prices rise.
Expected behaviour.
Scenario 2:
Anonymous person buys $1.5 billion
value of futures, based on no publically
available information.
5 minutes later.
Mr President:
"Good news, the war will end soon"
Stock prices rise.
Anonymous person makes
$100s millions in 5 minutes.
Odd behaviour.
I wonder who it was, Mr President?
Mar 24
Mar 24, 2026 at 1:46 AM UTC
That city once had a name,
it used to be a battle song:
"Silencer, silencer, may we drink
from your sea of violent intent..."
from an infinite multitude
of individual wills, we stood
on a hill and opened fire,
we thought our sky needed to die,
so we airlifted every chemical
known to man—decades later it
still rains upon only us.
what's left of it we transport to market
in holy red wagons—you see,
we are the profiteers of blood.
the price we pay has its own sound.
the sound of our eventual extinction.
Jan 7
Jan 7, 2026 at 12:29 AM UTC
Who dares enjoy your gold with you?
What good is it Midas? It's contaminated.
When will you, if ever, enjoy it again?
Where is your preferred seating now?
Why persist with your follies? Don't touch me.
May 10, 2020
May 10, 2020 at 12:43 PM UTC
Twenty pounds a day
was the price to pay
Monday through Sunday.
The only way
with no leeway
to sit beside my mum and pray.
Apr 4, 2020
Apr 4, 2020 at 11:23 AM UTC
Onward Christ’s invaders
Waging pious war.
Genocidal warriors;
Profit’s faithful hordes.
We know what we’re paid to do.
Hold our banner high.
Anyone gets in our way
Then that one has to die.
We ignore the whines of those
Whose relatives have died.
We are doing right because
God is on our side.
Christ died on the cross for us
Washed away our sins.
That’s why we must **** the rest
So they’ll be born again.
Slaughtering’s our holy right
It says so in our book
Someday we will read the thing,
Take a good long look.
Until then, we do what we’re told;
March and slash and ****
We are faithful Christians, we
Obey and always will.
Onward Christ’s invaders
Waging pious war.
Genocidal warriors
Profit’s faithful hordes.
We know what we’re paid to do.
Hold our banner high.
Anyone gets in our way
Then that one has to die.
Mar 19, 2016
Mar 19, 2016 at 9:45 PM UTC
The invasion of other countries
Has to come to a full stop.
You’re making us the Evil Empire
By playing at being traffic cop.
We are stuck in a sick cycle
Of meddling in the internal affairs
And financing revolutions and wars
In countries where nobody asked us there.
You’re evil
And even more so;
Pure evil
Because you don’t think so.
At least that’s what you claim
But you’re as phony as your fame.
You tell the voters one set of lies
And secretly agree on others.
Your backroom manipulations
Kills our sisters and brothers
While hiding behind patriotism
The overseas battles of duplicity
Are not about threats to us here,
But are about oil and ethnicity.
You’re evil
And even more so;
Pure evil
Because you don’t think so.
At least that’s what you claim
But you’re as phony as your fame.
You take advantage of the state
Of poverty out nation is suffering
That you politicians caused
By removing our safeguard buffering.
You are doing your best to remove
All the national checks and balances
So you can ***** our world at large
That has no recourse for grievances.
You’re evil
And even more so;
Pure evil
Because you don’t think so.
At least that’s what you claim
But you’re as phony as your fame.
Nov 19, 2015
Nov 19, 2015 at 6:44 PM UTC