ChaimAmalek: This is the twilight of the Luftmenschen.
YourMoralLeader: what are Luftmenschen?
ChaimAmalek: A yiddishism….someone who seems to live on air
ChaimAmalek: A trader who trades in the trades of others
ChaimAmalek: Or who takes a bunch of mortgages, bundles them together, turns them into some esoteric financial instrument that he trades to the ignorant greedy goyim
ChaimAmalek: Lehman was a 150 year old firm founded by German Jews
ChaimAmalek: Gone with the wind . . . ……
User guest13 left the room.
ChaimAmalek: Thank God we still have Goldman Sachs. A world withoug Goldman would be world in which the living would envy the dead
ChaimAmalek: Mark my words, Mr. Ford.
Joe emails: “Luke, your friend’s yiddish is incorrect. You may be a luftmensch, I may aspire to be one, but no one who trades bonds can be a luftmensch. It means the kind of intellectual with no practical life skills other than exploring the mind, etc. Literally a person whose head is in the air. In French it would be the flaneur, like in Bauderlaire’s line about the imagined horror of being a person who might be actually useful.
Nasty little antisemitic idea that Lehmann was founded to cheat goyim, as well, assimilated German Jews wouldn’t have even used a term like goyim in that sense.”
