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  • Kaputnik [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    There's a reason it's called wall street :lenin-shining:

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    ITT: OP purposely ignores the giant gaping chasm between bored office workers day trading on Robinhood and Wall Street hedge funds worth hundreds of billions of dollars, equates the two as somehow equally responsible for capitalism.

  • KrasMazovThought [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    If capitalists loaded an Olympic sized swimming pool with billions of dollars open and unguarded, and a mass of proletariat came upon it, would you wonder why they rob what's been robbed from them?

    Unfocus from the questions of how a market should operate and what just economic conditions are and what sort of ethic is required of a revolutionary, a bunch of people (many of whom are emphatically not rich) are taking money from billionaires. If your politics are so pure that's a bad thing, I don't want it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  • ami [they/them,he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Counterpoint: the money made from grifting these hedge fund goons can be donated to guerilla maoist orgs

    • 234567890987654 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Or used for medical procedures dying families desperately need, as we keep seeing in highly upvoted posts on WSB.

      This is guerrilla healthcare now, fuck over the short seller firms to pay to save your dog or give your parents the surgeries they need.

    • MidnightInTheDesert [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Wired: Using the money to help set up and fund tenants unions

      Inspired: Funneling all the money into building gundams and burying them in the countryside for future use.

  • mxnoodles [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    not saying it’s likely or that i am explicitly hoping for this result, but if at least one grotesquely wealthy hedge fund manager dangles by his own dress belt over a redditor meme, it won’t heal the soul of the nation per se, but it has to be worth like... at least a therapy session or two.

  • SovietyWoomy [any]
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    4 years ago

    Fiat currencies and stock values may be imaginary, but the horrors of poverty are very real. If someone has some crazy strategy to make money on the holy slot machine I don't see a problem with having a place to share it. There's a difference between exploiting the exploiters and supporting exploitation.

    • Crucible [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Unfortunately this usually ends at step one because step two involves your own head once you're among the monied

  • Virgil_Is_Dead [any]
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    4 years ago

    Libs and chuds breaking the stonk market. Is this the unity Biden wanted?

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Since we can't take all of the wall street shitters to central park, we might as well get hyped about gaming their stupid system a little bit.