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Dirk_Diggler 32 points ago +33 / -1

I kinda enjoy all the "war stories" from the 2008 housing market crash. Some of them are probably fake, but I am sure a lot are real. People lost their homes, while banks were bailed out. A lot of those people took that bailout money and paid out multi millions dollar bonuses. Touting the "too big to fail" protection. People's lives were ruined or irrevocably changed for the worse, by people who do nothing productive but play shell games with money. So while they were sipping champagne and buying a new sports car or a newly drastically reduced price chalet, that someone saved for their whole life to buy, had it foreclosed on. Many people were out on the streets, no Christmas for their kids that year, going hungry. Fuck'em.

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crazyjackel 27 points ago +28 / -1

There is a lot of resentment from 2008. The correct term is "not too big to fail", but "too big that it must fail"

And what we are seeing very shortly is one of the biggest examples of must fail.

There're too many people living in the united states that are not interested in it as it is, deep divides and so on. It can't work live this and it won't work.

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ChuckedBeef 20 points ago +20 / -0

Exactly. Capitalism that is artificially influenced by propping up mega corporations is called communism. So big that it must fail is exactly how it is supposed to be. We need diversity and independent business, not some giant clusterfuck conglomerate umbrella corporation that rules the world (like Google/Alphabet). The stock market is responsible for so much suffering. The entire premise of make money at all costs and forget about why you started the company in the first place, it's sickening. Once a company goes public it completely changes the mission statement and the purpose of that company from whatever they used to do to just making more profit at all costs.

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crazyjackel 12 points ago +12 / -0

Communism is honest fascism and fascism is dishonest communism. Public companies are more likely to be monopolies, due to investment capital.

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TermLimits 3 points ago +3 / -0

Both come from SOCIALISM. Democrats hate it when you point that out.

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Uzaka123 2 points ago +2 / -0

There's no difference.

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Uzaka123 6 points ago +6 / -0

"Real communism" doesn't exist.

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finscreenname 15 points ago +16 / -1

Becase fuck you, that's why....rotflmao

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borscht-nazi -8 points ago +1 / -9

Oh wow, that'll show them!

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sixfingerdildo 3 points ago +3 / -0

lol ya just gotta look it up, mr not so savant...

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borscht-nazi 2 points ago +2 / -0

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Fizbin7 6 points ago +6 / -0

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Visceroth 2 points ago +2 / -0

So minecraft has finally gone digital? Nice.

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TheRougarou 2 points ago +2 / -0

Scorched earth!

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ghost_of_aswartz 1 point ago +1 / -0

Ok, well ... good for them

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QuietSpark 1 point ago +1 / -0

You get what you deserve.

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ImpeachTheWitchHunt 1 point ago +1 / -0

THIS GUY GETS IT.

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borscht-nazi -11 points ago +2 / -13

Oh, yay! A guy with 246 followers to the rescue! Hooray, we are saved!

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Fizbin7 10 points ago +10 / -0

In the age of the ban hammer, clout is not measured in "followers" but in authenticity.