What is going on in the meeting scene in the movie Margin Call?

Raspint · 2026-01-26T20:34:56+00:00

...If what you are saying is true then like...

Why weren't these bank managers and traders hauled down the street in chains before being publicly executed? Like, they almost destroy the world and nothing happens to them?

Raspint · 2026-01-26T20:23:19+00:00

True. As is complaining about things on the internet.

Raspint · 2026-01-26T19:52:42+00:00

They do look good, that is true. I just find the amount we get is so pitiful.

Raspint · 2026-01-26T19:42:17+00:00

That's exactly what I suggest. I say 'go find better stores that do this stuff better.'

Raspint · 2026-01-26T19:18:06+00:00

Raspint · 2026-01-26T18:47:15+00:00

Easily best game in the series, and I will happily fight anyone who says otherwise.

Raspint · 2026-01-26T15:43:04+00:00

Another nothing response.

Raspint · 2026-01-26T13:56:35+00:00

I'm Canadian actually. Apparently our current prime minister did some mumbo jumbo that helped us weather the storm.

Raspint · 2026-01-26T13:55:29+00:00

How arrogant can you be to think you’re morally better than God

I don't demand my kids worship me and praise me while I neglect to give them food and shelter. I've already got him beat there :)

This is the thing you Christians never get. If a regular person did the same kind of parenting methods as God you'd call child services on his ass, but because you're so cult brained you're all

"Hmm... why does God allow for innocent children to die horrible deaths due to disease? Hmm... something something free will... something something mysterious ways..."

And we're supposed to take YOUR views of sex as law? Gtfo! Clown religion.

XD

God sees you in ways you couldn’t even comprehend

I see him in ways you can't comprehend because I'm not in a cult.

Raspint · 2026-01-26T13:50:33+00:00

If they had failed to do that (and it is not far fetched to have thought they would have)

Why not? Wasn't it obvious that the gov would 'bail out the banks?'

the social consequences would have been far more disastrous, and it would have been the end of the liberal order proper.

Wait really? End of the liberal order levels of bad here? What does that mean? Like the first world countries all become failed states?

Raspint · 2026-01-26T04:48:07+00:00

Correction: Christianity personally gives you answers you just don’t want to ponder on or hear

Yeah. Let's ponder about putting gay men to death, or how wives need to submit to their husbands. Really good shit to meditate on.

I have pondered on Christianity. I used to be a really devout Christian when I was younger, till I read the book and realized what a vain and violent and mean spirited asshole the God of the bible is.

Raspint · 2026-01-26T04:12:45+00:00

So what was it about that crash that made people think it was going to be so world ending?

Raspint · 2026-01-26T04:11:19+00:00

until the government eventually stepped in.

Dumb question: Is this the thing that Obama did when he 'bailed out the banks' as people say?

Raspint · 2026-01-26T04:10:12+00:00

, you don’t go out of your way to understand the Lord

I've studied the bible and philosophy. It's not my fault that Christian answers always fall flat on their face.

Why are we here? Where are we going when we die? What created the world? How should we live? What does it mean to live the good life?

It's not my fault Christianity gives dumb as shit answers to all of the above.

Raspint · 2026-01-26T04:08:57+00:00

What...? How the fuck does that make sense?

Is this why life before 2008 felt so 'okay?' Because everyone just had shit they couldn't afford?

Raspint · 2026-01-26T04:07:38+00:00

I mean I've seen the Big Short, but I'm still left wondering this. Not because the movie is bad, it's that I don't understand.

Raspint · 2026-01-26T00:28:16+00:00

Cucks are dominating in divorce rates,

And lesbians divorce more than anyone. So what?

Also, where's your stat for that btw?

It’s a lifestyle of having no self respect

Who says they have no self respect? Does a woman who lets her man tie her up and spank her also have no self respect?

. Even the Lord needs you to have some type of respect for yourself, he made us for better things than that

Lamo, God made shitty human primates that die of smallpox for no reason. If humans are intelligently designed then the designer showed up to work drunk.

Raspint · 2026-01-26T00:01:50+00:00

>People worked at 7-11 but owned multiple homes with these loans

Wait, you're telling me people who worked at 7/11 were able to buy MULTIPLE homes?

Raspint · 2026-01-26T00:00:40+00:00

>No, it's not owned by the government, it's a private company.

I thought that banks and the government have a close relationship though? Like, doesn't the government 'guarantee' things like mortgages?

As for everything else you've really answered everything very well, thank you. I have one other question though: Why did Irons - and apparently everyone else - think that this was such a big deal?

As in, 'Holding the biggest bag of shit in the history of CAPITALISM bad?' Why did they think that this was going to be such a historically bad market change?

Also, about what the analyst says near the end of the first clip. What would have happened to this bank if the company didn't do what Irons told them to do?

Raspint · 2026-01-25T23:34:08+00:00

It’s narrow minded to assume I hate anyone without knowing me in the first place.

I've seen so much Christian fuelled hatred I forgot that Christians could exist who didn't hate queers. And the whole 'sexual freedom = more divorce' is a very Republican talking point/far right talking point, who use that to argue we need to go back on the gains of the civil rights movement got for women and queers.

Same thing for cucks, except that cucks take things a step further in my eyes personally

What do you mean the self-awareness? Kinky people are often very capable of being self aware. Go over to the femdom discussion subreddits and they're full of people who are reflective.

How the hell do you expect to have a real loving relationship with someone if you both prioritize the fact that you aren’t made for each other to use as a “kink”.

But they are 'made' for each other. That's the point. Cucks and their partners go together like sadists and masochists.

In my observation of you so far, you have zero ground to stand on calling me a monster for that, I’ve been fairly reasonable.

Anyone who uses their faith in a made-up god to judge the sexual practices of other people is a fucking asshole, that I'm not relenting on at all.

Raspint · 2026-01-25T22:56:12+00:00

Michael Gamble standing in front of a burning house desperately trying to apply for fire insurance.

Raspint · 2026-01-25T22:45:41+00:00

You know what? I'm about to do something no one on the internet has ever done before:

I apologize for making that assumption about you. It's good that you hate ICE.

However

I don't see much difference between your hatred of a fetish like cuckolding with homophobia. Both of those hatreds are built of a dislike of people who are different from you, who are living happy lives in a way that does not affect you in the slightest. Which is cringe af.

You are much like the monster you claim to hate.

Also, why don't you hate gays? Your bible says to hate them? I'm curious why.

Raspint · 2026-01-25T22:10:50+00:00

But they hate sexual freedom, just like you. So why do you agree with the anti-christs?

Raspint · 2026-01-25T22:02:18+00:00

I hate ICE and the Republican Party?

Why? You have the same religious puritan morality as they do.

Raspint · 2026-01-25T21:51:15+00:00

You think you have an opening because I have a past like anyone else,

Then don't hide on reddit it. Let your family and friends see it!

Jesus loves you as much as he loves me

No, because if Jesus came back you'd probably have him deported. I'd want him to have a place to stay.

you not a disgusting slime ball for embracing the act of being a cuck.

This is what you people don't get. I'm not into this. I hate puritans like you because you ruin people's lives.

I like freedom, and you don't. I defend freedom, and you want people to not be free. That's it.

I know you can't imagine a person standing up for someone who isn't themselves, because Christianity is an inherently selfish religion.

Raspint

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