I've had surprisingly good reception on that sub with literal Marx quotes, I think there might be some potential for radicalization for people who stare into the contradictions of capital for fun but haven't internalized being bourgeoise
I'm so anti-capiitalist I just bought a case removal tool off Amazon so I can upgrade the sdcard on my book reader without having to pay more to the OEM
like many reddit subcultures they’re rabidly imperialist, sinophobic, racist, ableist
While it's tempting to try and move people on every issue all at once, most people change their opinions one step at a time. The first step to getting people on board with ten leftist ideas is to get them on board with one.
It's definitely helpful to have an idea of the sub's culture before diving in, especially if we're trying to persuade people of anything.
You have to explain imperialism to them in terms of how the same hedge fund managers they are struggling against benefit from it and how they primarily do not.
Maybe post some more of his shitposty dunks, I think they would fit the vibe there just like they did in the Chapo sub
heads up they and their mods are highly anti-chinese and will purge anyone who even remotely seems like they have anything but an anti-sino worldview
That still gives you plenty of room to bait the hook, but that is a good warning
Go read the comments on that sub. They are a bunch of degenerates but they rediscovered some form of class consciousness by going the long way around and always respond well to Marx quotes
definitely seems like some class consciousness is brewing, rooted in resentment of generational wealth disparities
We're seeing organizing and that's the leftist part of this. Normal people organizing around a single cause and having enough leverage as a collective to upend a few capitalists with billions. They're afraid.
We just gotta keep exposing those contradictions, isn't that what Lenin said? :thinkin-lenin: I'm seriously asking, I don't read theory
It's not even a pump and dump. There was a legit reason to believe the stock could go wildly up, reason being that an absurd amount of financial institutions were shorting it.
In a different vein, I've also seen a lot of "wow I can pay off my parents debt from the last recession!" "I can finally get that knee operation!" "I'm going to donate 10% of my profits because I'm not some asshole hedge fund manager."
like they aren't all angels but I bet for every mil into WSB, a hell of a lot more is going into the community and good causes like that than when it's in a hedge fund managers pocket.
Robin hood's steal from the rich and give to the poor mantra proves to be the true trickle down economics.
GameStop shares jumped another 45% in after-hours trading after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted the word "Gamestonk!!" along with a link to the WallStreetBets subreddit.
Love too have a rational economic system that makes sense
I've been painfully waiting for days for robinhood to approve my account
i tried to get in on it when it was at like 70 but didn't realise i can't get robinhood here so i decided to just let it slide.
now it's at like 150 :deeper-sadness:
At 70 I was like I can’t buy now cause it’s going down, the Melvin shorts already expired a week ago. Now it’s at fucking 200 and I’m thinking the same.
Time to get ahead with Blackberry and Nokia.
it feels like when you decide to stay in instead of going out with your friends but instead of missing out on experiences you're missing out on financial security lol
Go for $BB or $BBBY or something, they both have high (but not nearly as extreme, only about 60% of their total stock) shorted right now and are both on the up and up. Turns out Black Berry is doing self driving cars now, who would have thunk
A possible reason he is doing this is that the same hedge funds involved in the GameStop debacle tried to pull the same shit and short/bankrupt Tesla a few years ago. Peak hellworld at the moment
That tweet 100% just bankrupted them. Not necessarily singlehandedly, but it was Brutus stabbing Caesar. Also WSB are huge fans of Tesla/Elon and he knows that. I'm sure there will be a small uptick in Teslas sold once all is said and done too.
So we all know WSB is gonna get nuked by the admins the moment that first SEC subpoena arrives, right?
And we need to be there when it does to radicalize the lot of them.
Probably best to start talking about that stuff now, while they're all together. "It's rigged against you; just watch, they'll change the rules" is pretty persuasive when it proves right.
was thinking recently about this: even much of the radical right wing has a fundamentally correct mistrust of their own government and understand (albeit loosely and poorly) its unhealthy connection to Wall Street - they just never find the right sources to understand how and why that is, and what to do about it (christman talks about this a lot). i want to believe in my heart of hearts that no one is beyond the pale.
oh no doubt, but the point is the racist/jingoist/tribal bullshit just fills the vacuum where their actual politics would be if they had a better purchase on reality. not trying to coddle these fuckers; they DO have access to real information, they just dont have the scruples to vet through all the bullshit around and in between, which... I mean... there's an entire tech/media/economic system working against them. there but for the grace of god go chapo
That joker meme the other day...
If you can knock the ableism... And the sexism... And the racism... And the transphobia... And the homophobia... And the sinophobia... And the xenophobia.... And the anti-semitism... Out of them.
They might not be completely lost causes.
Most of them are cynically gambling because they know they have no future. Get rich or die trying kind of mentality. The mods are a lost cause who keep complaining about joggers.
What kind of person runs around a neighborhood and is a “good boy” who “didn’ do nothin” that they can say to get around a filter.
I have my doubts many of them hold those beliefs deeply.
It really fucking sucks that they have them though but they ARE those who capitalism is actively fighting to crush and they quite obviously have come to some form of home brewed class consciousness
Yeap. There’s a reason I advocate for leftists to learn the market and make their own wsb, the people on wsb are petty bougie millenials and gen x.
If they don't prosecute wsb, they're definitely gonna prosecute a leftist version of it.
There are two million people on that sub. If even one percent of them came here this site would stop being world's only chapocel enthostate.
praxis immediately sending them a federated ark link, do it before the donald does and blames this on jews
There's always /biz/, and if 4chan hasn't banned /pol/ yet they aren't touching /biz/
It's hilarious to watch market insiders call out WSB for wrongdoing trying super hard not to trip over themselves and accidentally reveal that the entire stock market is mostly bullshit lol
You know what's fucking dangerous? Putting our futures at risk all the time by gambling with people's retirement, you fucking capitalist pig.
:joker-dancing: :gun-unity: :porky-happy:
I love WSB, it validates the fact that the stock market is nothing but a huge joke, a casino for rich ghouls playing with money and young assholes trying to win big.
It's hilarious but holy shit the usage of ableist slurs there is fucked
Also the incredible amount of racism and sinophobia towards Chinese people. r/wsb literally bans people for not being anti China
The stock market is only a casino for the working class. For the rich, its more like cookie clicker.
"Learn to invest and you too can make it in this equitible system"
"No not like that"
NOOOO ONLY I CAN ONLY SOW SEEDS!!! :rage-cry:
-7DeadlyFetishes
Wait is this meant to indicate that you are saying this, or Michael Burry. That looks like an attribution, I'm confused. Maybe you should stop doing that signature thing
May the heightening continue until the contradictions are self-evident to all. :lenin-pogger:
Michael Burry: Gamestop ❌ Water rights in third world countries ✔️ ✔️
i did some napkin math, because i have a downpayment on a house saved and if i had a time machine and bought at the exact right time and sold before close today, i would be able to give half to the IRS, buy the house straight cash, remodel it the interior completely into some kind of solar paneled ridiculously high efficiency everything bunker, build a detached garage, pave a driveway, buy a sweet car... and like make some can't refuse offer to one of my neighbors for their house+lot and combine it into my place and connect the structures with like underground tunnels and human sized ballistic glass hamster tubes.
what a ludicrous economy.
totally. I have no regrets, just wanted to illustrate the absurdity of how our markets assign value.
personally, I can't abide the risk of gambling. my allocation for employer retirement contributions are all in like cash equivalents, near term instruments and treasuries. my account manager sends me emails advising me "you may be too conservative" and I'm like, over here not fucking with the market unless I'm forced to and even then, I'm wearing 6 condoms at once.
Some guy made 22 million off 50k. That’s like 3x the amount you need just to be rich from the interest.
Scion owned 1.7 million GameStop shares at the end of September. Assuming Burry hasn't altered the size of the holding, it has ballooned in value from about $17 million to $250 million as of Tuesday's close - an almost 1,400% gain in under four months.
he's the one making money
He's making money from this too, but his shtick is to exploit the system to its max while whining that it shouldnt be like this.
