Let's be the biggest scams in history.

catholic church

I'm manifest destiny.

"backed by the full faith and trust of the US government"

The Trump administration

Thrive and how they somehow extricated themselves from the Chris Watts documentary. Is Thrive the Illuminati?

Religion. All and every one. That is it. Thank you.

Rationalism

You Rang.

Religion is a fascinating scam. Some rich people sat around a fire and asked themselves, how can we convince the poor that they don't WANT to steal our money from us...a step further, convince them that they will be rewarded for being poor.

Then a few people took the idea and ran with it.

Three Card Monte

- Society -

We are in this together! Yay!

Critical Theory

Psychic Mediums

With some notable exceptions...

Modernism in the arts.

American family values, conservatism, free-market capitalism and presidential democracy. Deplorable!

Shakespeare in Love winning best picture.

Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes Netflix deals.

Screenwriter William Goldman pocketing a fat check from Harvey, then publicly confirming that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon wrote every word of GOOD WILL HUNTING on their own.

Because the two of them have been such an unbeatable screenwriting team ever since.

The Clintons were just misunderstood.

I'm democracy! You think you're in charge but we just throw all the votes away and elect who we want.

Psychoanalysis.

.....

Philosophy.

Wardrobe malfunctions.

^ and her 'singing'

Ewww, why did you post a picture of someone’s Grandma R22?

That's Fran Lebowitz ya dumb cunt

Wine

Beer

Cigarettes

Corporations

The Republican Party

The showtime on a Madonna ticket.

Fifty Shades of Gray, marketed as something edgy and sexy, when it was actually tedious crap for morons.

Lady Gaga's "genius" and her "ability to play instruments."

And her "acting."

Bernie Sanders.

....

^^^^

Mineral water.

Socialism. "Eternal equality if we just get rid of class differences!".

Biden running in the 2020 presidental election

20th century - Multi-level marketing schemes, including Herbalife, Amway, LuLaRoe, etc

Many are run by Mormons.

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Fyre Festival.

Trump presidency

The “moral majority” and manipulation of simpletons and “pro-lifers” to register/vote republican .

R22 was posted by Joni Mitchell.

And she would be correct, as she often is.

Defined contribution retirement plans such as the 401(k).

Capitalism.

Timeshare condominiums.

Laser disc and compact disc technology.

Expensive coffee makers with non-recyclable, disposable plastic single-use servings of coffee.

I'm Bernie Madoff - have I got an investment for you! Trust me.

Trickle down economics.

Trump's combover.

[QUOTE] R46 Expensive coffee makers with non-recyclable, disposable plastic single-use servings of coffee.

If you ever had to clean an espresso machine (even worse a bean to cup one) on a regular basis you would worship disposable coffee pod machines.

"I do not exist." - Satan

Florida--"beaches everywhere and close to the Caribbean, what could go wrong?!". Everything.

M.

Iraq - US war after 9/11.

American dentistry

Austerity policies.

That politics are not a two party system and that there are other parties you can vote for.

Extended warranties which are rarely if ever needed.

The idea that Britney still sings entirely live or J-Lo sings the choruses of her songs or that Mariah can still hit those extremely high notes. Also Billie Eilish and everything about her.

Aging creams and serums.

The US pretty much has a one party political system with two names, they are both incredibly right wing by the standards of the rest of the world.

Lady Godiva was a freedom rider.

[quote] The US pretty much has a one party political system with two names, they are both incredibly right wing by the standards of the rest of the world.

Totally agree.

Daily vitamins, guaranteed to turn your piss yellow and that's it.

Keto diets. The diet that you can sustain is usually the best one, there's nothing special about keto. 95% of diets fail and it's because people cannot sustain them. The 5% who do succeed are on diets they can maintain forever.

Scientology, Tea Party, Cyclamates, diet drinks, diet shakes, Snackwells and other terrible tasting cookies, The Cookie Diet,

Energy drinks

Hearing about the third cancellation of an already renewed show on Netflix today and then no second season for Teenage Bounty Hunters, while Murphy runs wild with schlock and Shonda does produce even a turd, I’m adding Netflix to the list.

American third-party candidates.

You win OP. Hands down.

NEW COKE

Bella Thorne’s OF.

ELLEN

I. Love. You.

Marriage

Biggest scam? Um, I forget. Low carb diets?

I am russiagate.

Another vote for Scientology. I was created by a science fiction writer for fuck’s sake.

Demtel’s tv offers of ‘buy one, get one free’. You’re buying both, that is the price for two. Oh, and they’re fucking you over further with ‘plus postage and handling’ as well.

Sea Monkeys

Jesus. Just a silly fairy tale to keep the peasants in line and paying taxes to their landLORD.

Express Redi-Set-Go

After a couple of months the non-stick coating would scratch off

I'm Meghan Markle. L

That god blesses America.

DL

The Laffable Curve.

"Fiscally Responsible" conservatives

The taxation system, laws and loopholes.

R63

You sound like you've been on a diet most of your life.

R67

I thought you said NEW COCK.

I was thinking "How can that be bad?"

Offshore tax havens.

I am Face Book!

Hi y'all, I'm Sallie Mae and I LOVE lending money to students with no earning potential or current income so they can achieve their dreams! (Hahaha!)

Well I’m all for adding Netflix now that both Glow and Teenage Bounty Hunter have been cancelled in the last few days on top of other shows that were already renewed, but suddenly cancelled. It’s called the ole bait and switch.

I'm not religious, I don't believe in God, but the fact is that the Catholic Church made more people literate than any other institution in history. It's why S Amer is better off than Africa. The Catholic Church, despite having committed many atrocities, is the biggest charity ever.

Manifest Destiny wasn't a scam: it worked. Just ask the indigenous peoples here - what's left of them.

Here's some of the real stuff:

The stealthy substitution of crony capitalism for real capitalism.

Communism

For-profit healthcare

The Divine Right of Kings

BLM -- the "charity," not the idea

The collection plate in a Catholic church. And the world would have continued turning if there were no Catholic Church. Yes civilization would have been different and we personally as individuals most probably would never have existed. There would be no Mozart but there would have been somebody else.

Shutting down the economy for Covid-19.

Confucianism - a philosophy built around the premise that peasants should be happy with your station in life and support the 1%.

The Electoral College. The founding fathers actually felt pretty unsure about it. But the way conservatives/libertarians tell it, you'd think every founding father signed (in blood) "I LOVE the electoral college!!!".

Once Around the Garden and Autumn Harvest.

Religion wins by far. I watch this at least once a year. We miss you George.

Y2K. We must replace all computer systems and electronics because everything will stop working at 12am on 1/1/2000.

ebay

Religion pre-dates Christianity by thousands of years.

We'd all be Jewish by now.

goop.com

Virginity. Like anyone is different from getting laid one time.

Dick Sergeant replacing Dick York as Darrin on Bewitched.

I’m Hillary’s Emails. I’m the scam that delivered the United States to a puppet of the Russian government and destroyed faith in democracy for at least a generation.

Circumcision.

Milli Vanilli

There's no point in trying to beat R22, R40 or R107. They won.

Free market.

Andy Cohen's fake COVID claims.

Plastic surgery.

Funko Pops.

Boy bands.

All of Hollywood - every last bit of it.

Too big to fail.

Libertarianism

R116, Ayn Rand wasn't a Libertarian. She was an Objectivist.

If you are going to criticize something, you should probably spend 5 minutes trying to understand it first.

Benghazi.

R118, Benghazi was such a scam, Hillary had to physically destroy her email server after it happened.

R119, good effort, troll.

Having teeth whiter than a Billy Joel concert. Naturally healthy teeth are slightly yellowed but Americans are determined to have the whitest teeth on Earth. Joe "Blindin" Biden is a great example. Jane Krakowski too. Love her, confounded by her fake smile.

Essential oils.

R120, how can it be trolling if it's true?

Reaganomics.

Ayn Rand.

Trans as a movement.

Boys should keep their foreskins.

R99, yes, the extent of the threat turned out to have been far less than feared, but you do realize that all the preparations you think were based in unfounded hysteria actually worked? And that's why many anticipated problems were avoided?

Bigfoot

Albert Nobbs

Corporate welfare

I’m Oprah Winfrey and I really care about people other than myself and I am not at all materialistic.

MOTHER THERESA--watch the Christopher Hitchins documentary on her if you haven't.

Tarot readers.

Bill Cosby

enemas

Christopher Hitchens

Salman Rushdie

Niall Ferguson

Paying for undercoating

The National Socialist German Workers' Party.

Facebook friends.

The monetary system, (virtual and essentially non existent) debt

There is literally no bigger scam in history than [bold]organized religion[/bold]. Nothing else even comes close.

Thread closed.

Crypto-currency

American Exceptionalism.

Thomas Edison.

Capitalism.

[quote] There is literally no bigger scam in history than organized religion. Nothing else even comes close.

Capitalism is a bigger scam than organized religion.

Post-racial.

I think r81 meant the Laffer curve.

Tiaras.

"Dr." Martin Luther King being a "Dr." and being a great moral leader. He plagiarized parts of his dissertation (which would have gotten anyone else's PhD revoked) and was a rapist, accessory to rape, and reported to beat a black prostitute. He is in the same category as Mother Teresa - a huge scammer.

Not Mother Teresa.

Heterosexuality.

Christianity started as a way for the lowest of the low to cope with their oppression. Charity, forgiveness, love, it’s core values also appealed to the ruling class, too. Even today, it can be a comfort to many.

The problem isn’t religion. The problem is people. People suck, they’re awful.

R152, let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Republicans conservatives and rightwingers are patriotic.

During one if the Arab oil embargoes in the Nixon administration, the King of Saudi Arabia, who despised Godless Communism, secretly promised President Nixon that he would see to it that there was plenty of oil for the US military for use in its war in Vietnam.

R154 You mean like our president whose father bought him out of military duty 3 times and George Bush whose father got him a position in the coast guard?

Just because you hump old glory doesn't mean you're patriotic.

I think you missed that the point of the threads was scams, r156.

Yes you are right. I caught that too late.

Trump University.

[quote] the movie, “The Big Short”

At one point in the movie, we learn that the banks finally realized that their mortgage backed securities were worth, maybe 40% of their value, they started unloading those securities onto unwitting people or institutions. The rating companies refused to downgrade the quality rating on the securities until the banks completed dumping their securities. The rating agencies were afraid that they’d lose the banks’ business if they downgraded those securities before the banks unloaded all their trash.

Everybody on the inside made money, while many individuals in the country lost everything. Only one person went to jail, and he was just a scapegoat who was used as a shield by the higher-ups,

Everybody should watch that movie.

[quote] Another movie: ‘Rogue Trader”

I remember when this happened, a single man (with a small staff) was overly leveraged when the Kobe earthquake hit Japan. He lost a ton of money then, and kept doubling down, in a bear market, until his losses couldn’t be hidden any longer. He actually caused one of the oldest and most prestigious banks in the world to go bankrupt.

Multiculturaism

Multiculturaism

Im Enron

[quote] Also, the movie, ”Too Big to Fail”, a fictional movie that was inspired by real action by the banks during the Great Recession.

There’s an old movie named “Rollover” with Jane Fonda and Hume Cronyn, about a fictional crash caused by the Arabs secretly converting their cache of US dollars into gold. When that is discovered, people panic.

The entire financial system is based on trust. If that trust is abused, people can panic.

Diets.

The Secret

The Landmark Forum

Multi-level marketing schemes

Slaves didn’t mind because they were treated well.

Condoms

The Confederate flag.

Southern Hospitality

I put my finger in the Virgin Mary's pussy and you could tell she had a lot of cock.

Being told that HAMILTON is the best musical of our time as well as THE BOOK OF MORMON. The former has good staging, choreography, performances and that's it. The latter has a funny TV skit script which peters out in the middle of Act Two.

There are people who would say “face masks”, though I believe they are probably at least “helpful” in slowing the spread of Covid.

Madoff is a great example. In the movie, in the last weeks before he was caught, he asked his “father figure” and longterm friend for hundreds of thousands of dollars, knowing full well that he was about to be exposed and that this money would not stop that from happening, and that it would never be paid back. What an ass!

That father figure (Carl & Ruth Schapito) has wings at at least three Boston hospitals. They were huge philanthropists, but I think Madoff took most of their money from them. He stole a lot of money from charities. Unbelievable.

Communism, fascism, and Anarchy. The reality of them is not what their founders anticipated.

Dual citizenships and retaining titles like Dame and Sir.

I agree about dual citizenship. How can you pledge allegiance to the US if you’re also a citizen of another country?

R178 is an idiot. Don't pay any attention to him.

Modern art!

Also, brutalist architecture like Boston City Hall and the JFK library in Boston.

Andy Warhol

Jeff Koons

Matthew Barney

Fair and balanced news media! lol

Religion is considered true by common people, false by the wise and useful by the rulers.

- Seneca the Younger

Facebook.

Facebook.

Madoff didn't even give a shit about his own sons. The mother didn't much care either.

PCH! PCH!

Scientism and Materialism, which are inseparable from one another.

R50 - buy a Bialetti stovetop Moka Express (and one of those handheld milk foamers if you do espresso drinks) and you won't have such a trying time cleaning your coffee making implements, nor will you need to resort to the tackiness of single-serving coffee pods.

Gwen Stefani is a cool chick from da hood

Pch!

The Resurrection...

and all other multi-level marketing schemes!

Dean Graziosi BECOME A MILLIONAIRE SELLING REAL ESTATE

Larry King isn’t a snake 🐍 oil salesman, because the backdrop of his current show looks just like his CNN show!

The whole concept of hierarchy and that there are people born better than you.

Royalty is a perfect example.

Royal families are also welfare families

Vote counting in Philadelphia.

Joe Biden "winning" an election that kicked his ass and those of Democrats across the country all night.

The Confederacy died after the Civil War.

'I'm really rich'

I'm hetrosexual.

Gay marriage.

Innocent until proved guilty

The mainstream media completely ignoring all the actual evidence of the vote fraud happening right now, after four years of talking about nothing but how Russia interfered with the 2016 election.

The Legitimacy of a Dictatorship

The Democratic Party

R204 It's over - rejoice

R207, we have not yet begun to fight!

Trump.

^When it started to kick Nazi Ass?

R210 for R206 obviously 🙄

Amway

AOC.

Recycling.

pet rocks

Election recount.

I'm M's 20+ Oscar nominations.