Is there a list of political revolutions that happened nonviolently?
I've heard of the Velvet Revolution, but it is a serious thing worth looking at for folks who like to weigh serious options.
Not that any of us will do anything other than what our benevolent officials tell us, but it might be a worthy study as an intellectual exercise.
I love all the "Well if you're doing nothing wrong, morons."
These same fucks want their neighbors to be strangers and the state to have a fucking tracking device up their asses. They are the reason that the obsession with "optic" is just a waste of time. These retarded monkeys will always see any free man or woman as a criminal.
Do you somehow live outside of history?
They have in the past. They always do. It's like they cannot help it.
Yes. They need the systems and corporations on their side for things to work.
While their pseudo-egalitarianism and social tactics are textbook Leftist stuff their economic tactics are fascist. Instead of a popular uprising taking industry over and handing it to the government, the government is in bed with industry by wooing them with laws (and pandemics) that kill their competition. So we get this Twilight Zone situation where I can be an oppressed black lesbian woman with a dick in a world where every major corporation funds my pet advocacy groups and where you can't even make it through a single commercial without seeing mixed race and gay couples presented as the norm...clearly showing how incredibly oppressed these groups are. All while shows like 'Cops' get cancelled and questioning the elections of Kung-flu gets you kicked of the sites of unbiased publishers.
And you're just a paranoid, homophobic raciss who wants grandma to die if you notice.
It's all rather genius and demented at the same time.
Yes. For the sake of the children! Please make it stop!
Maybe we can just divert the bailout money these whores and pimps exchanged during the last Covid bailout bill to the little guys who wind up suffering collateral damage from this.
Or maybe they just need to learn to be smarter, work harder, and invest better, huh?
I mean what kind of lazy fuck bitches about being gamed, right?
That's a lot of words for "but dammit, it's hard!".
Also, you misunderstand if you think I'm advocating "bootstrapism". I'm advocating that we freedom loving individuals look past the small differences in our worldviews long enough to unite on terms we can agree on and create parallel systems to the government and various corporations. People do chose to believe the victim/oppressor narrative. Just as some of us chose to set it aside. You do realize that if your assertions were correct the question becomes how do you explain people like me? Like Rip? Like so many others on this site? How did we escape those supposedly inescapable social messages and pressures?
I tend to agree. I think this is why you had so many who were vacillating between Bernie and Trump (which is true no matter how much it pisses people on the left off.)
Wait, so you feel that the vulture hedge funds who sell stocks they don't really own for purposes of making money off of destruction and driving struggling businesses towards their end is fine but a bunch of gamers who've done business with Gamestop for years rallying to try and sabotage that effort and keep the place running is "manipulation" and should be illegal? That snake oil is only gonna work with people who don't understand what short selling and hedge funds are about. I'm sure Elizabeth Warren appreciates your support of her vast new regulations she'll be out with shortly, though. It's all manipulated they're just mad it's being manipulated in a way that they don't make money off this time.
Seconded. And he should get this week's T-shirt.
Yes George some are assholes, there are assholes in all types of work, I have worked with a few, but there are good ones among them, but you still need them. In Australia there is a high turnover of Police personnel due to the stress. You go to a few car crashes and see broken bodies of people splattered around or go to a few domestics where children have been killed it gets to you eventually and it hardens you up, so you need to give your coppers a bit of a break. Your father as a correctional officer would have seen the worst that humans turn into so you should give him a break also.
Governor Cuomo blames God for COVID deaths.
If you are an Atheist, he is a coward. To everyone else he is a coward. Any other way to see this?
The only thing that’s driving GameStop towards it’s end is the free market—streaming, as it were. Remember Blockbuster Video? But I suppose it was evil hedge fund managers who put them out of business too, right?...driving struggling businesses towards their end...
This is nothing more than a classic pump-and-dump with the buying hysteria driven by a bunch of redditers duped into thinking they are fighting some kind of electronic revolution against the Wall Street demons.
It would be interesting to find out who actually started the frenzy (I posted a potential clue earlier, for anyone paying attention) and is poised to make, or has already made, a fancy profit off the top, but like the election crooks, they’ve probably plied their craft to the point of avoiding detection and evading detention (nice alliteration eh?).
Serious question:
How many people here who actually invest—and by that I mean dollar cost averaging, buy and hold, asset allocation; or if you’re into individual stocks, pouring over balance sheets, income and cash flow statements—how many actual investors think the system is totally corrupt and stacked completely against the individual?
Personally, I don’t. Yes there are shenanigans, cheaters who don’t get caught, manipulators who bend the rules to their advantage. But by and large the system is accessible and generally beneficial to anyone who takes a bit of time to educate themselves and build a disciplined approach to long-term savings.
Sorry, Elon, you made the mistake that the US isn't corrupt garbage
https://i.imgur.com/DAtvrmom.jpg
^This.
The hedge fund vultures were not only hoping GameStop would go out of business, but salivating at the idea of them doing so. 15,000 employees at GameStop were being bet on by the hedge funds. Sure, many of them are teenagers working after school, or college kids, but they are jobs nonetheless. These fuckers have reveled in the destruction of struggling businesses for years, and now they got beat at their own game.
I contributed to the cause to the tune of $1000. I got in a little late, so I'm basically even on the deal. I read Warren's tweet and her letter to the SEC today. She sounds like somebody concerned about the weapon David used to kill Goliath, and not the fact that Goliath was a fucking asshole who deserved it.
I will say that if there's one positive thing in the current administration it's this:
The money required to bail out some of these hedge funds will require approval from the Senate Budget Committee, of which, Bernie Sanders is chairman. He'll make them eat his ass before he gives them anything.