Those damn commies have struck again!! π«΅
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This is exactly what life under communism is like.
This sanctimonious yet ignorant, idiotic pronouncement sounds like another type of thing that this sanctimonious yet ignorant type of idiot would say: bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe.
Communism would be that everyone only owns one share of the stock and you can't sell or trade in anyway but they do get dividends.
But across the entire market and not just public companies, all of them.
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If you're still using Robinhood after the shit they pulled years ago you're a goober
Thatβs alright. This screenshot was from 2021
Quite literally* is* the shit that happened years ago
I still don't understand why people are so obsessed with gamestop.
it killed all the good game stores.
its exploitative
it doesnt pay shit for trade ins.. especially when you consider what they sell the resultant game for.
and it treats employees like shit.
I genuinely cant understand why stockbros are so fucking obsessed with artificially pumping this shit up with their obsessive memeing for literally years, nor do I understand how it hasnt been investigated as a blatant stock manipulation.
PS: I love how everytime capitalism does something horrible, right wingers come in and are all like "thats like living under communism/socialism/whateverism", completely seriously.
It's the only game store in many places, and a social hub for people who see being a "gamer" as a core part of their identity. Many of them are too young to remember a time when other game stores existed.
I genuinely cant understand why stockbros are so fucking obsessed with artificially pumping this shit up with their obsessive memeing
It was actually a bit of legit class warfare. The institutional investors and billionaires were shorting GME so much that they were overexposed, and when u/DeepFuckingValue on Reddit spotted and shared it tons of regular middle-class retail investors all piled in to collectively fuck over the billionaires by pumping the price knowing that the short positions would still have to be filled. Probably some billionaires made money too, but for the most part is was a "regular folk vs Wall Street" affair.
nor do I understand how it hasnt been investigated as a blatant stock manipulation.
They literally hauled u/DeepFuckingValue up in front of a Congressional Inquiry for pointing out on Reddit that a stock was oversubscribed, which is more than they've done for the many questionable insider stock purchases made by politicians and their families in recent years. Indeed, that's a big part of why the story won't go away, because it very publicly proved that the rules only apply if you're not connected.
They think hedge funds are still shorting it, and that if they hold long enough they will default.
I don't think you understand how much the GameStonk hype is completely divorced from the actual business of GameStop, especially years after the initial short squeeze hype. The people who are still into the stock hype are into some QAnon levels of conspiracy theories and messianic prophecies about the stock. It may as well be a religious cult at this point.
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If you describe communism to these morons without ever saying βcommunismβ then they salivate over what you have just described to them
A system where there is no central authority and everyone has an equal share of both responsibility and power? Somehow I don't think they'd find that particularly enthralling.
That's anarchism, communism can have a central authority, it's just the resources are distributed equitably.
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Limiting trade like that is market manipulation.
Which is essential to capitalism.
Its not essential ,its just inevitable. Like most of the problems with capitalism, the problem is the inevitability of wealth consolidation that allows the purchase of power that allows further wealth consolidation that allows the purchase of greater power, round and round. Capitalism is an ouroboros, we are just in the stage where its about to finish eating itself.
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I'm not entirely sure about that. Those people could always just buy GameStop from somewhere that's not robinhood. this mightve been something that they were financially forced to do, bc this trade limiting just seems like something that would lose them money
I'm not entirely sure about your take. If we say that this is fine and allowable, then you give a few large firms a huge lever to control the market with. If robinhood can limit investment to a specific stock, so could everyone, and at that point you allow them to decide the market through collusion, because you wouldn't need too many places to get on board to seal a companies fate.
It's neither free market nor communism, but it sure is capitalism. It's like a wind up toy about to fall off the edge of a table, we need to free the market again somehow to place it back in the middle of the table
Free market is as much a myth as stateless communism.
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If you can buy stocks in a business in that nation then they are not communist or even trying to pursue Marxism.
Greetings from Mondragon Corporation
Isn't that just socialism?
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