This is stupid. You guys are celebrating him not being impeached after you had an election stolen from you. They have us on defense when we should be on offense. It started when they successfully scared us into disowning the capital march.
You're implying that ridiculing our enemies is "shooting ourselves in the foot" and that it's "anger". Look at the picture. Does anything about that suggest impotent rage or anger? It's a meme. It's humor. We're neither angry, nor hurting ourselves. We're laughing at our enemy, and we won't stop for your brand of ideals.
Dude you're way too concerned about people's emotions. "Your emotions will hurt too if you hurt other people's emotions!".
It's like you've delved so hard into spiritual introspection that now your head is lodged INSIDE of your anus, and you can no longer apply these great, navel-gazing wisdoms to the people who oppose you.
Instead of analyzing the world through the "unconditional benevolence" lens, try analyzing them through the "practical, results-based" lens. Turning the other cheeks has got us where we are today, and the only people who want you to think that "fighting back" has negative spiritual connotations are the ones who want you spiritually blind.
They actually haven't thought this through any further than "It's safer, so we should do it". Something only has to be safer, even if only mitigating risk by 0.02% and regardless of the cost in freedom, for the left to accept it ideologically.
We should be advocating full hazmat suits, but I think slowly pushing people there is more realistic.
Did they stop the vote in the middle of the night in 2016 for the last remaining states that mattered, before having ALL of those states turn out against Trump in a miraculous swing with small victory margins? No?
Did we get flooded with mail-in voting, which is highly susceptible to fraud, in 2016? No?
Did we have thousands of sworn affidavits claiming voter fraud in 2016? No?
Did we have poll-watchers in 2016 who weren't even allowed to "watch" due to social distancing? No?
Did we have video evidence from 2016 of election officials continuing to count ballots after kicking poll watchers out of the counting facility? No?
No thanks. I'd rather look back at the decades of idealism and decide not to keep going in the same direction that its taken us. Our country has been stolen from us and you're worried about us making fun of people who are just now beginning to wake up. Aggression is absolutely called for, and humor is even more appropriate, but you're free to adhere to your hyper-honorable ideals, in spite of how much pain and loss they've caused us.
because the Left has won all their ground by being sensitive about their opponents' feelings. They demonize us for smiling, and we can't make fun of them for wearing two masks and taking anal swabs? Give me a fucking break you stupid faggot.
ssshhh don't say that too loud, or you're going to summon u/QuranIsToiletPaper to do a fact checking spree.
In the simplest way possible:
Melvin Capital, a very prominent and wealthy hedge fund, "shorted" GameStop, because they thought it was a "dead man walking" business.
Shorting: When you "borrow" shares from a market broker, and immediately sell the borrowed shares. You still "owe" those shares to the broker and must pay the broker back (in shares). The value of the shares you borrowed can change. If you pay back the broke when the shares are a lower price, you make money.
Melvin Capital probably borrowed ("shorted") those shares at around $5-$10, and were hoping to advertise the massive short as a way to crash GameStop. Instead, r/WallStreetBets noticed the massive short and decided to invest heavily to fuck Melvin Capital over. Now instead of the share price going down, the share price went up, so Melvin Capital owes WAY MORE money on the borrowed shares than if the share price had gone down. In fact, there's no limit on how much money Melvin Capital can owe the broker.
This is called a "Short Squeeze". When "bullish" ("confident") investors decide to invest AGAINST a short and force the shorters to return their shares early, or bleed money.
r/WallStreetBets drove the price up to as high as $500. That means Melvin Capital had to return $500 per share on shares that they only made like $10 on, meaning they lose ~$490 per share (if the price stayed there). This would not only bankrupt them, but create a massive vacuum of debt in the market that would probably crash it, or cause a government bailout.
Either would be a win, as far as those who suffered the pain of 2008 are concerned. The media and government are now salty because the average person isn't supposed to engage in collective action like hedge funds do every day.
I have no idea how you came to that conclusion. The last thing you said was:
Error: premature celebration.
If you fuck the elites stock prices and they say fuck off and leave and the food or other essential products stop flowing around, there will be quite a lot of violence.
Maybe this is my mistake, and you weren't discouraging us fucking the elite hedgefunds raw, but it SOUNDED like you were saying "we should not oppose the hedgies because the elites will stop feeding us". If I misunderstood you, I apologize.
This is the kind of thing that people do when you take away their right to vote.
Then you take away their right to freely trade.
Then their right to withdraw and hold their money.
Then their right to private property.
This is great. People are waking up.
make sure to vote :^) voting is our only way of being represented, and it's effective! :^)