I'm not sure if this is supposed to be posted here but I'm not sure this would be welcome in c/wallstreetbets (lmao) either. It's just sad and dispiriting. Not really gonna say more about this because it's been pretty draining tbh.

Also, before someone says "well I don't think it's WRONG to talk about this, and I don't think it's praxis, and y'know I had to pay rent and spent some money on this and I just like laughing at Melvin eating shit and...." cool, I'm not talking about you, you know which people I am talking about.

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

    What part of "if you don't talk to them, someone else will" don't you people understand???

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Do you also think chuds burning their Nikes was a massive radicalization opportunity?

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

        How are those in any way equivalent? There are literal unapologetic communists on WSB right now. What do you suggest we do instead?

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          There are literal unapologetic communists on WSB right now

          Yeah, there's like, at least 20.

          What do you suggest we do instead?

          What would you do any other day?

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

            Do you think subreddits like WSB or hell, even The_Donald are/were this fucking miserable? No. The right has something we don't have - hype. There are virtually no serious downsides to "overreacting" to this potentially insignificant event, because like everything in this dogshit hypernormalized culture it will probably be forgotten within a month. I don't think you understand, we have to overreact to small victories sometimes; we have to have a sense of hype. Otherwise we're just a bunch of individual shitposters pointing and smiling at world events like senile old men at a retirement home watching birds go by.

            • Pezevenk [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              The issue is exactly that you seem to think that the "contest" between whose subreddit is more hype is important to anyone other than a few redditors.

              There are downsides. Beyond the very obvious, which is pushing people to the stock market. What you are saying right now reinforces even more my perception that people just have their brains completely broken by capitalism. Either you're hyped about stonks and meaningless subreddit contests, or you're completely inactive apparently. Is there nothing more you can think of?

              There was less hype about Amazon unionising like a month ago. Think about that.

              • BigPoopPalls [any]
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                4 years ago

                Yeah, that's exactly the problem. Y'all cowards don't even let yourselves get hype about your own victories. Stop being such a self serious person, you might be less miserable that way.

                • Pezevenk [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  I am seriously struggling to see what kind of victory it is that you people think achieved. This place will laugh at libs celebrating Biden and then will pull off shit like this.

                  • BigPoopPalls [any]
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                    4 years ago

                    Biden is a nothingburger, I might think it's pathetic to be super jazzed about him, but whatever. Here we have the exact people we all claim to absolutely loathe, people who everyone wants to see knocked down a peg, publicly losing their shit over a bunch of poors actively trying to screw them out of their ill-gotten gains. I think that's worth at least a small amount of approval.