lol so we’re just blatantly rigging it now ok
Super Tuesday was months ago, comrade
It's great having watched that bullshit play out and now this. Good memories to hang onto for when lib tendencies and faith in the system begin creeping into one's thoughts.
People are calling this COMMUNISM. 😂
Someone tell them this is ruling class solidarity. lol
them: the beauty of capitalism is that if you work hard enough, anyone can be a millionaire.
also them: woah, slow down Maurice!
ain't it weird how whenever the people start to win within the rules of the game, all these shadowy forces come out the woodwork to try and stop them and the rules of the game start to shift and change to stop them winning... almost like the whole thing is a simulation designed to keep those at the top at the top and the rest of us poor and working.
Did you miss the Robin Hood is bad post yesterday ? This was obviously the outcome of the day.
:capitalist-laugh:
Please, please, use this rage from the non-class-conscious proletariat to guide them into realizing their power in numbers. Teach them the power of collective action.
- Ask them to close their Robinhood accounts
- Ask them to tell their friends to do the same
- Ask them to get #CancelRobinhood trending
- Inform them that their power is in numbers
It says now that you can sell but not buy right now. Figure its just for premarket? Otherwise I might need to find a new app before they fuck us over
Oh trading the cool stocks is closed for good. Just signed up for Webull but the verification apparently takes awhile
Of course you can still sell. Selling without buying will force the price down and mitigate the losses
This is them trying to force people to sell. That’s never happened before
Ya Im a noob at this shit so I have no clue what to do If they are not gonna allow selling of it today. Idk how I get access to my shares in other exchanges if RH doesnt open it back up soon.
As of now, you can still sell on robin hood. Im hoping they lift restrictions when the market opens at 9:30 but who knows this is uncharted territory really
I saw people talking about dropping marx quotes that highlight these contradictions in particular, of the rich actin in solidarity along their class concsious lines.
Anyone got any good quotes to share to help me agitate in non-leftists spaces?
I am currently on a good run radicalizing parts of the battle rap community, loll
Idk, maybe quotes could feel a bit preachy and turn people away? Nobody likes being told what to think, and I always felt that academicism has this effect. Helping them to reach the conclusions in a personal way is much better. You could comment your own personal observations, stuff like "yet another example of the elites rigging the game to forward their interests. All of this made very clear that we are stronger when working together to forward OUR interests, and I think we should keep working like that."
I think I know how to balance quotes and more modern ways of discussing issues without it being too annoying, I have been posting Panther/Maoist/Communist stuff in 'apolitical' communities such as drill music/ battle rap forums for years with a fair amount of success. My family is definitely what would be called lumpenproletariat, and after years of speaking to them about the every day bullshit of this system I feel like I tread a good line on all of this.
I can synthesise theory and such without too much issue, the biggest problem I am running into now is just knowing what to try and get across to people at this moment to really drive it home.
This is an example of something I already posted:
The rich have class consciousness and act in solidarity to protect their shared interests, and all it took was a bit of memeing for them to go mask-off about how little they care for regular people fucking over markets. The issue is not manipulating the markets, the issue is who was manipulating them. And because it wasn't a collection of billionaires, suddenly politicians are talking about regulations, corporate media is mischaracterising the issue, discord bans a community, facebook tries to stifle discussion, robin hood suspends the ability to buy GME and cancels some people orders, etc etc The rich have class consciousness... when will we so that people can fight back properly against the system they created only for their benefit?
I (unfortunately) go to law school, and even profs tell me (often with a tone as if its a bad thing?) that "I am great at vulgarizing the law", aka... making it easier for regular people to understand without arcane terminology.
But honestly, I think a lot of westerners wrongly assume/fall back on never explicitly mentioning things from communist thinkers, when I have found even really idealistic libs to be accepting of discussions of Maoism when phrased properly, whereas I prefer to try and do both. Hell, I was quoting Lenin on revolutionary recuperation on Bernie mitten memes and getting traction, so why not outright Marx in this more explicit situation?
(EDIT: It goes without saying I am not American, so it's much easier to be pro-Mao without blowback, but still... people are more receptive to these things than ever, and after a bunch of CHUDs rushed your Capitol... you kind of have a high ground that was previously unavailable to you in being an open communist these days.)
Them go off, king. Spread the red seed all over them.
I guess I'm a bit sensitive about how to approach people with leftism because I'm from a place that has a bit of a leftist baggage (not the USA) and a lot of people have at least some formed leftist concepts, but it makes my skin crawl just how much people will try to talk to less informed citizens and shower them with academic stuff that matters zero percent for them, effectively turning them away from the concepts and the left as a whole. That plus trying to reduce the whole situation to just "Marx said this" "Gramsci said that" "that's capitalism for you" without acknowledging the present contradiction or material situation in any way.
I found that a good way to talk about this stuff is to just point them towards the major contradiction - the interests of the elite in question vs the interests of the workers in question - and kind of suggest what the thought should look like*. What difference could it make that I don't slap Marx's name or a hammer and sickle on it if the thought itself is marxist? I also think that people are way more receptive if the idea is something that seems to be the conclusions of a person in the same setting and the same situation as they are, like a fellow worker in some retail store. Saying phrases by some foreign guy they barely ever heard about, save for shitty internet fights, can be quite alienating in this regard, I think.
*It's interesting to note that people that I've talked to tend to arrive at either defeatism or capitalist realism. I think that having a general idea about how to organize would reel in a lot of people, by showing them that there IS something we can do, actually
Obviously the fuckery has started, and I don't feel like gambling any more. Managed to pull out at $400, making $50 :cool-dad: But that's probably from some poor wsb sap who thinks they can survive big money's fuckery :sadness:
yeah, as much fun as it is to be in on this, it's just a cold hard fact that the market is a zero-sum game, and every winning trade you make is most likely not at the expense of a hedgie but at the expense of some poor retail trader hoping to make enough to pay off their crippling medical debt.....
I don't think it's fluctuation anymore. It's just straight up crashing. Glad I pulled out.
I'm counting the rise and crash as a fluctuation. Currently fairly close to pre-short squeeze levels. Wonder if it is going to rise again.
But yeah, good thing you were able to pull out.
It's crashing because they locked retail investors out. The volume's too low for the hedge funds to have covered their shorts.
The squeeze hasn't happened yet. It's probably going to pump again. Anyone telling you they know how high is lying,
same with cashapp, I was confused for a second but then it set in. all of these were available yesterday.
