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    • Tormato [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Second picture from the links you posted looks like somewhere overseas, maybe the Middle East. Wonder if these guys are taking out highway billboards all over the world?

      Still not sure if I see this as a populist revolt or not. I guess in some sense, since there seems some orchestration between Robin Hood day traders who understood that this vulture hedge fund Melvin Capital was going heavy and hard to short a stock (Gamestock) into oblivion.

      But if people are talking about , and not accepting MSM narrative that the stock Wall St casino gambling market is some divine metric of how the whole economy is doing (instead of the fraudulent and rigged the whole thing is), how it's really a farce of a playground for the super wealthy or those connected to some insider information/trading, then I suppose it's just one more shot across the bow of Crony Capitalism.

      Though you have to wonder how many brainwashed Get Rich Quick, American Dream™ just wish they could "play the market" too and make some fast, easy money, instead of just understanding that in a socialist system one's desires for that kind of boondoggle could be greatly diminished by having those desperate feelings mitigated by simply being assured of having a social safety net that doesn't let people fall through the cracks (i.e. Healthcare for all, nationalizing the energy grid, making internet access free to everyone, college tuition free, etc).

      The constant conditioning of our countrymen that the ultimate goal in life is to get rich, be envied for material goods and buy a big house is a deep propaganda tactic that keeps this whole shit system afloat, in thrall to the altar of Capitalism. It's a two-pronged punch, along with relentlessly maligning soshulism/gommunism for decade after decade after decade since the late 1800's (or even before), that keeps us divided and conquered. The theory of American Exceptionalism, taught from the moment we arrive in kindergarten and are taught, before anything else, to repeat the words, "I pledge allegiance...," wraps it all up nicely in the kind of fascist authoritarianism that prevails.