It shows how amazing this was. Robinhood, with a valuation of nearly $12 billion risked their entire future as a company to stop people from buying a stock that had a market cap of around $1 billion less than a month ago.

It's like an episode of Mr Robot.

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This is an amazing interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu-zGfi45RI

This clown Wapner is suddenly obsessed with "fundamentals". Does he think there should be some commission that looks at balance sheets, P&L statements, and then considers blue sky and puts a number on a stock over which it may not be traded?

He's spouting elitist pro-institutional talking points cloaked in a paternalism that I consider offensive. We've had a little of that here. Not much though, thankfully. Power to The People.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

My savvy stock trading buddy said there were a billion GME puts yesterday that would not have been exercised if it weren’t for RH tanking GME like they did by halting trading.

Who do you think owned the majority of those put options?

Infuriating.

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Aren’t you happy that the option writers got burned? Who do you think wrote the majority of those put options trying to steal an easy, meaty premium?

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Hawaii (fuck) You

They're coming for you denis...

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Feels like the end times.

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Sell at $500 and pay off your student loans.

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No chance TP. I love the idea that a certain segment of the population believes the game is rigged, then attempts to change the supposedly rigged game, then complains when the rigged game bites them in the ass.

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I started saying this a few years ago here, and my observation has become more valid with each passing day: We are in the midst of a massive legitimacy crisis wherein our cornerstone social institutions and their leading figures are held in complete and utter contempt by vast sectors of the population.

From the perspective of political economy, this means that the neoliberal order is dead, but (as Zizek says) it just doesn't know it yet. Neoliberalism has failed, but nothing else has succeeded, so the neoliberal elites continue to operate as if "everything is generally good" (to borrow a Brickism) even as all that they once considered solid melts into air. It has become fashionable within the non-corporate media to say that the U.S. is approaching a state of civil war. But such a prognosis overstates the coherence of the current moment. Our society is not cleanly divided along a single line but is instead fractured into a kaleidoscope of antagonistic identities, competing interests and shifting alliances. This is simultaneously the end of something and the start of something, but nobody knows what just yet.

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We may eventually see an end to our current Party system. We've seen throughout our history parties come and go or even change their planks. The coalitions put together by the Republicans and Democrats seem to becoming a bit more shaky, where those towards the center of both parties are trying to lasso in what the status quo might call the extremes (be it the Bernie Bros or the Tea Partiers).

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

It may be a little early to spike the football on these thoughts. Bernie in 2016 was also a sign this was going to happen.

In my opinion, we won't see anything like you describe until we reach the tipping point on automation requiring UBI to become a necessity. It's theoretically possible that we are close to that tipping point though.

I apologize to anyone who is only here to read the thoughts of SpiralStairs if I have ruined the thread again.

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Buy NOK

that's all I've ever wanted, the death of the 2 party system. It's the #1 reason I supported Trump from day 1.

The two party system is the single biggest reason this country has gone to shit. Both parties suck.

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Its not going to be hilarious watching CNBC act agast the DFV is a professional investor. Considering they have all week basically tried to paint WSB as an alt right group of basement dwellers who are spending their stimulous checks. Meanwhile guys like Chamath are like there is a ton of intelligence in WSB. Real investors. You just have to look for it.

PM get your login hnd?

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Portnoy is going to run for President.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

i'm broken

Jim Cramer calling from a hospital bed to yell "Don't lose money on Gamestop!" is a pretty good example of the absurdity of this whole situation.

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You’re unique and beautiful, a treasure to our fine community.

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Yep - the only way this could be crushed is through identity politics. And they will try their best.

This seems different, though.

I think the dick pics he has sent around might block that path, but then again, he could always recover from it by grabbing some women by the pussy.

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I mean he does have that tape out where he "does the Bagwell"

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

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Do not listen to the older congress people trying to act like they are going to heavily restrict short selling.

They are going after retail investors.

Man I hate these crypt keeper looking politicians we have.

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none of them understand it. just like they don't understand how google and apple can keep so many photos on their phone but by golly they are going to make sure they do something about it...ie call their broker and bitch them out for not getting them in on this.

They don’t.

CNBC just had this great grandpa looking guy from congress on who was talking about how he just wants people to go back to investing in a company and holding the stock for 4 years. Not 6 months.

So detached.

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Bill Maher predicted we would see presidential dick pics in the near future.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?