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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/20/09

    In reply to So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like
    The funny thing: when I used to work in the same office as Taibbi's agent, I told her I was a fan, and he asks her: Is a young, hairy-knuckled young Jew?" She answered in the affirmative. Apparently, most of us are.
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    Image of ethylic ethylic
    11/18/09

    In reply to So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like
    And I thought it was the squid from "Watchmen"
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    Image of TableNein TableNein
    11/19/09

    @ethylic: I thought it was Rush Limbaugh
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    Image of MisterMustard MisterMustard
    11/18/09

    In reply to So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like
    That isn't blood dripping from the tentacles, it's oil.
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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    11/18/09

    @MisterMustard: So, not only is this cartoon racist, but it betrays the artist's tenuous grasp of cephalopod biology.
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    11/18/09

    @MisterMustard:

    It's actually -ink.- And it's not a squid, it's an octopus.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/18/09

    In reply to So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like
    Interesting this came out just about the same time that the GS pr machine cranked out their new "mea culpa letsa throw some money atta the problem".

    Some say that calamari is Italian slang for mafia. Yes? Verifiable?
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    Image of Arken Arken
    11/18/09

    In reply to So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like
    Silly Nazis. Octopi aren't even kosher.
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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    11/18/09

    In reply to So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like
    To be fair, that's a cartoon octopus.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/18/09

    @D2theMatthews: Specifically, "great octopus wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    11/18/09

    @D2theMatthews: To be fair: that's an octopus and Taibbi is describing a vampire squid. Squids are faster, leaner and more invisible. And vampires are undead, hard to kill and easily disguised.
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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    11/18/09

    @gawkimo: Some sort of zombie sperm whale will be needed.
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    Image of KikiCanuck KikiCanuck
    11/18/09

    @D2theMatthews: Fuck that, somebody call Steve Zisou. He won't kill the Vampire Squid, but he will fight it.
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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    11/18/09

    @KikiCanuck: But not before going on an overnight drunk.
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    11/18/09

    In reply to So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like
    Wow, classy.
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    Edited by i'm a bottle at 11/18/09 7:03 PM i'm a bottle was starred i'm a bottle was unstarred
    Image of WhiteMan'sBourbon WhiteMan'sBourbon
    11/18/09

    In reply to So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like
    Then Hitler showed the drawing to Hirohito, and thus was born tentacle porn.
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    If_I_Had_a_Poodle promoted this comment WhiteMan'sBourbon was starred WhiteMan'sBourbon was unstarred
    Image of uncle_wiggly uncle_wiggly
    11/18/09

    In reply to So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like
    I'm not a big Taibbi fan, but I don't believe that anyone that uses a squid/octopus metaphor is anti-semitic because some shut-ins found a fifty year old illustration of a nazi squid. It's more likely that Taibbi's sealife metaphors are derived from repeated viewings of Sigmund the Sea Monster.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/18/09

    @uncle_wiggly: Standard Oil was called the Octopus before the trustbusters broke it up, and nobody ever accused the Rockefellers of being Jews. So, not.
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    Image of ohgee ohgee
    11/18/09

    In reply to So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like
    I'm pretty sure a vampire squid is a real animal, though.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    11/18/09

    @ohgee: it is, and wikipedia shows us that it's fucking terrifying looking

    [upload.wikimedia.org]
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    Image of CumaeanSibyl CumaeanSibyl
    11/18/09

    @m4ximusprim3: nggaaAAAHH

    I think we can let Taibbi off the hook, but God is on notice for actually creating something that should not be seen outside my nightmares.
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    Image of Helio Helio
    11/19/09

    @m4ximusprim3: oh for fucks sake! Im actually sad I clicked that.
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    Image of Adrian Chen Adrian Chen
    11/18/09

    In reply to So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like

    The image was also used to denounce Standard Oil back in the day.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/18/09

    @Adrian Chen: That looks more like an elephant squid
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/18/09


    @Adrian Chen: There are even more!

    #tips
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    Image of anonymousryan anonymousryan
    11/18/09

    In reply to So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like
    Obviously, doing anything remotely similar to the Nazis is anti-Semitic. What'd the Jews ever do to you, VANCOUVER OLYMPICS?
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    Image of Thistledew Thistledew
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    Image of ModestProposal ModestProposal
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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