Re:Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went priv...
by guscost on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:22PM
(#25937308)
We apparently live in different realities.
“If big business is on your side, everyone on TV is on your side, Hollywood is on your side, every university faculty is on your side, and almost every union is on your side, then you are not The Resistance.” -Apocryphal
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by berryjerry on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:57PM
(#25937584)
It takes some effort to blame this on Trump. Trump literally gave up his fortune to serve.
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by alxndr on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:04PM
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A) he didn’t give up what he already had, and B) “fortune” is being pretty generous
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by berryjerry on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:17PM
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His companies have been battered, protested, and boycotted. He also donated his entire presidential salary. No one asked him to. WSB bets top posts are literally AOC, a democrat congresswoman, supporting them right now and somehow someone is still finding a way to blame Trump?
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by magicalist on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:00AM
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> WSB bets top posts are literally AOC, a democrat congresswoman, supporting them right now and somehow someone is still finding a way to blame Trump?
Missing the mark here, mate. No one in this chain said that. Maybe re-read the actual criticism?
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by berryjerry on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:20AM
(#25938518)
You're right, I read that Trump started a populist movement for his own enrichment and assumed he was relating that to the WSB populist movement getting started, since I just read an article stating that.
Edit: Here's the article I was reading: "How Trumpism explains the GameStop Surge" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/politics/gamestop-stock-surge...
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by IggleSniggle on Thursday January 28, 2021 @01:21PM
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I definitely was not blaming Trump for this situation.
If I was saying anything about the relationship between Trump and WSB at all, I was ascribing the opposite blame: populist movements like WSB explain Trump.
Trump is business establishment through and through and has managed to wake a populist movement for his own enrichment.
He (and his sycophantic cronies) were (and continue to be) very much part of the “I got mine” greed establishment.
Instead of answering to the Population, it seems that Trump and his crew care only for self-enrichment. How he managed to capture the imagination of a Populist movement is indication of the total lack of alternatives.