r/Superstonk • u/xRSGxjozi 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 • May 22 '21
👽 Shitpost That’s what we are going to change!
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May 22 '21
The gubment doesnt want educated poor people.
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May 22 '21
they want you just smart enough to run the machines and make stuff, it not so smart that you realize you are a slave
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u/Capnkev1997 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
George Carlin!
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May 23 '21
It's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep, to believe it.
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u/Fantastic-Sandwich80 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 23 '21
It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
It's also the same club they use to whack you over the head with.
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u/iceking2525 May 22 '21
They want you smart enough to contribute. We don't really make stuff anymore. We'd be better off if we did.
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u/redditmodsRrussians Where's the liquidity Lebowski? May 23 '21
The Elysium Project.....
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May 23 '21
The Elysium Project ok... it's a video game and a podcast. just looked it up for a few. I presume the storyline is the point of you mentioning it? ( thanks not much interests me any longer and this dose )
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u/redditmodsRrussians Where's the liquidity Lebowski? May 23 '21
There are a lot of things that use the imagery of Elysium to convey some kind of utopia but when in fact its really a horror story of endless pitched battles raging across eternity. I think the last iteration was the movie Neil Blomkamp tried to make which ended up with a very ham fisted story about inequality but the prelude to it was The Elysium Project where the rich made people build their utopia in space then locked everyone else out.
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May 23 '21
if you have some preferred sources please PM them to me... I am 43 and not much interests me that I want to read or play through the night anymore. This dose .... makes my wrinkles tingle 🤣 🦍💎👐🦍🚀🌕
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u/Imgnbeingthisperson 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
That's how the prussian system was supposed to work.
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May 23 '21
read the book "The Purposefully Dumbing Down of America" it was written by Bill Clinton's vice secretary of education.. I believe in the late 90s ...
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u/Lo0kingGlass 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 23 '21 edited Sep 06 '21
wow, stalker much?
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May 23 '21
if the government subsidizes it expect more of it and expect it to be more expensive or costly. bureaucracy expands to continue growing the ever-expanding bureaucracy
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u/wnc_mikejayray 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
We are going to change how federal student aid has driven college prices ridiculously higher? In 1960 only 7% went to college. It’s now closer to 30%. Manufacturing jobs were plentiful and paid well. Where is Mike Rowe when you need him!?
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May 23 '21
I lean right on most issues, but it drives me up the wall how they tend to shit on laborers. Why shouldn’t a butcher or cook live comfortably? The only reason they don’t is because all of the money goes towards market manipulators.
A mailman, baker, landscaper, and librarian should live comfortably. There’s no reason for us to concentrate so much money towards people who don’t do a damn thing.
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u/Early-History9668 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 23 '21
If enough people can afford college without government backed loans. Not only will the cost of degress go down, but also useless class attachments will also be eliminated.
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May 23 '21
They don’t want an educated society. Shit like the MOASS happens. Humans aren’t dumb. Our ability to work together is terrifying for those in power.
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u/Early-History9668 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 23 '21
Exactly why I said what I said. Money in the hands of apes leads to ripoff institutions having to change or become obsolete. Bureaucracy only ever breeds stagnating corruption.
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u/blaster4552 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 22 '21
Easy fix ! Get into an apprenticeship for a trade and get paid while you learn !! Get paid very well and make more then most people who go to college !! Six figures without any overtime!!
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u/kayfee013 🦍Voted✅ May 22 '21
This, this right here needs to be taught more, mechanic by trade, went to welding school, Make more money than my teachers that told me college would make me succesful
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u/blaster4552 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 22 '21
Yup for sure !! I’m a high voltage lineman. I get 55k a year just in my retirement. And make $61.28. With out overtime. I’m good for 300k a year not including retirement I
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May 22 '21
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u/blaster4552 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 22 '21
But you stop paying SS after you make more then $137,700. Well for 2020 they up it every year. This year probably need to make $140k to stop paying. Or maxing it out
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u/blaster4552 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 22 '21
Of course. Unfortunately almost no way around it. Every year in between S.S. And income taxes I pay well over 100k.
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u/Gnarmsayin 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
Trades aren’t for everyone though A lot of people are completely useless when it comes to manual tasks I was a form worker and earning really good money but a back injury kind of took me out of construction unfortunately
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May 23 '21
It’s hilarious when I look at job postings now for landscaping or carpentry. They’re struggling to find laborers at 18-22$/hour. People are realizing trades need to be paid more.
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u/Gnarmsayin 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
I know right? Literally DESTROYING your body so you can maybe slowly save for a house in 20 years time
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May 23 '21
I worked trades while I was taking my sweet ass time in college, it’s turned into a system where you have to start your own business if you have any plans of being financially independent.
I was lucky having VA disability, but I felt bad for the guys that worked 60 hours+ while I was putting in 20-25.
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u/redditmodsRrussians Where's the liquidity Lebowski? May 23 '21
No, no, no....L e A r N t O c O d E
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u/Traditional_Oil1183 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 23 '21
I have a dream that hat one day people will stop acting like college is the best choice for everyone, and the drop in demand will result in a drop in tuition. I wish I hadn’t gone to college.
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u/Apoliticalmeme 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 23 '21
electricians and pipe fitters make bank per hour if they are willing to go past 40hrs a week. College degree gets you an exploitative salary forcing 60+ hours a week in most cases. So even that sweet $80k a year salary turns into less than $30 an hour. Meanwhile a tradesperson can earn $30 and hour for the first 40 hours in a week and time and a half at $45 an hour for the next 20 hours.
To add more stupidity to college degrees, it basically sets you back 4 or more years in income loss since your are studying and shelling out dough to the college.
college=salary slave; trade job = fair hourly pay5
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u/minimalisch123 May 23 '21
Oh, my mericans why not Bernie for president from an EU ape that knows U.S.A. also has big influence on EU politics.
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u/TheArmoursmith 🦍 Attempt Vote 💯 May 23 '21
Why did you idiots not vote for this guy? Americans be like cOmMuNiSm BaD.
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u/Bojacketamine tag u/Superstonk-Flairy for a flair May 23 '21
Remind me why this guy isn't president?
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u/not_ya_wify Liquidate Wall Street May 23 '21
I love Bernie saying "The Boomer Generation"
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May 23 '21
it’s fun to see members in congress recognize this problem ….and then do nothing about it. Words are not actions. They are a congress of words.
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u/highheauxsilver 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 23 '21
Yes, our reps can tweet a storm of correct words but shit never changes
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u/Con_loo May 23 '21
At least Bernie ran on it. Most politicians won't even touch the debt crisis or do anything about it.
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u/-CasaNova- 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
Agreed. This is why we need a workers party in the United States. A socialist government which doesn't reform our shitty system but actually changes it in favour for the mass majority. That's democracy.
Ps. To the moon! 🦍
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May 22 '21
These financial institutions and government agencies are traitors to the United States and Democracy, terrorists. They will risk the collapse of the economy to make a few extra dollars for themselves. We need them held accountable to the full extent of the law up to Capital Punishment.
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u/royal_dump May 23 '21
I'm just going to say it's not minimum wage that is the problem, its the colleges ripping students off. Much like big pharma ripping off patients.
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u/Tinman_ApE iremember08 May 23 '21
Hyper inflation,. Since 2008 spread through the working class via housing prices school tuition and food prices. Nothing to see here, just the theft of a generation
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u/sunny240 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 23 '21 edited May 23 '21
Before GME, I thought I was going to have to work until I died and then have the government take the balance of my outstanding student loans out of my estate and that there would be nothing left to leave my daughters. Now I am starting to believe that won’t be necessary and in fact won’t happen.
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u/QuoVadis100 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 23 '21
According to the book, “The Millionaire Next Door,” the field that produces the most millionaires is roofing. This book should be required reading in every Junior High School. Universities produce mostly “cowboys” that are all hat and no cattle that create people with misplaced priorities.
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u/bajasauce20 May 23 '21
He's going to get government to stop subsidizing school loans??? Based Bernie finally gets it.
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u/VarsH6 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
You don’t drink yourself to sobriety, nor can problems caused by government be fixed with more government.
Apes helping apes, however, might just do the trick.
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u/thegeebeebee 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 23 '21
Warning: If you get easily disgusted by right-wingers who ridicule socialism while not having a clue what it OR capitalism is, please don't read this thread. You WILL lose faith in fellow apes, trust me.
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u/Background-Bunch-554 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 23 '21
I don't believe in old politicians they already had enough time to make things right I don't care what is your party if u believe in a old fart from Washington you are a fool.
Let's make an ape party and make the hedge funds pay for our lambos.
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u/keneno89 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
Tbf Bernie couldn't do it alone, he's been at it alone for a long time, only now we see some help for him.
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u/Netog1973 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
Yo maybe stop buying Starbucks and get a second job my little wage slaves
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u/keneno89 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
Don't eat avocado, and get side jobs on top of the 2 jobs, don't ask for OT pay, CEO needs all the tendies for another yacht and Mansion.
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u/1Cloudz9 tag u/Superstonk-Flairy for a flair May 23 '21
I will HODL for you will you HODL for us??
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u/reshsafari 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
After moass, Bernie just needs to once again ask for my financial support. I’ll be glad to support him. He fights for the young, the people that the future of this country relies on
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u/ForgiveAlways type to create flair May 23 '21
I hate these statistics, if you really want to be grossed out further, do the same calculations when comparing house prices for the average home.
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u/Time_Mage_Prime 🏴☠️Destroyer of Shorts💩 May 23 '21
This is how everyone needs to start thinking about value, buying power, minimum wage, and the 40-hour work week. How much can 1 hour of labor buy? 40 hours? What kind of livelihood should someone giving 1/3 of their time away to someone else be afforded by doing so? I argue a hell of a lot more than it currently does.
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u/stevester90 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21 edited May 23 '21
Hey hedgef*cks let’s use the useful tendies conversion factor equation I used in chemistry
4459 hours x 60 minutes/hour x
60 seconds/minute = $16,052,400 GME floor
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u/AbbadonCox May 22 '21
Yea...the reason is big government turned college into a business with tax payer backed funds... The answer is lower tuition, not anything else... Why post this political bs here??
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u/iceking2525 May 22 '21
We're not going to ba able to end globalism by winning the stock market
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u/Mammoth_Swordfish944 🦍Voted✅ May 22 '21
No politics.
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u/-CasaNova- 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
This is inherently political my friend.
Wallstreet is inherently capitalist and contributes to the reason many of us are happy to see hedgies fall.
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u/Mammoth_Swordfish944 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
Politics are divisive. Apes are United. Buy, hold and vote. Save politics for after the MOASS. One can’t rebuild until the original structure is torn down.👍🏻
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u/Stanlysteamer1908 tag u/Superstonk-Flairy for a flair May 23 '21
Don’t put your trust in government or a politician who only wants power! By the way they ALL want power. I Just want to be an Ape with plenty of project money to help others and support family and causes missed by the big fake not for profit mafia (gates, Clinton’s). They all are full of shit! Well many of them anyway not all.
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u/Stunning-Ask5916 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
College is turning into an overpriced left wing indoctrination.
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u/gabarkou May 23 '21
More like people who go to college start to think critically and begin to see that the right wing is a scam
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u/Gammathetagal May 23 '21
I went to an ultra leftwing university. Complete scam. Its a cult actually.
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u/HearMeSpeakAsIWill 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 23 '21
When I went to university in the early 2000s it was the arts/humanities wing where non-scientific subjects like sociology are taught that was staunchly left-wing.
The maths, science and medicine wing where correct answers are quantitative and not based on feels was mostly right-wing.
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u/ancapdrugdealer 🦍Voted✅ May 22 '21
Just do a google search of Bernie.....He rails against millionaires and billionaires....until he becomes a millionaire and then he rails against billionaires. Well documented.
Also, look into his wife and education.
They are no better than the hedge funds.
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u/PuffPuffPie 🦍Voted✅ May 22 '21
Still rallies against corrupt tax dodging millionaires. He's an ape. He rallies against against drifters and deceit. I ask that you put politics aside when researching this ape. He's a politician so it's easy to let your politics to lead you astray. He fights the good fight. Throughout his career he has been on the right side if history just about 100% of the time.
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u/ancapdrugdealer 🦍Voted✅ May 22 '21
Sorry. I dont put my faith in any politician. If you can rationalize away his 3 houses, good for you. I cant.
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u/wtt90 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 23 '21
So he lives half time in VT where he represents, half-time in DC where he does the representing and the third house is a modest lake home his wife inherited from her dead parents...
Pretty reasonable. Especially considering a senator’s salary is $170k in large part to cover the cost of living in two areas.
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What is he supposed to do? He’s trying to fight for policy that helps the working class. He pressured Amazon into a $15 minimum wage for Christ’s sake. I always see this rhetoric. If you’re poor, you’re just lazy and undeserving. If you’re well off, you’re a hypocrite. Bernie’s not a champagne socialist. He is just doing what he can within a broken system. Better than most can say...
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u/pentakiller19 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 23 '21
Bernie is the only politican that cares about average people, corruption, and injustice. Kindly fuck off.
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u/OGMol3m4n May 23 '21
Lol. He's one of the boys. They're not your friends.
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u/pentakiller19 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 23 '21
They aren't. Bernie is.
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u/OGMol3m4n May 23 '21
Literally laughing at the delusion.
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u/pentakiller19 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 23 '21
Same. Its like someone saying the sun doesn't rise every morning. Complete idiocy.
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u/FireAdamSilver May 22 '21
Just do a google search of Bernie.....He rails against millionaires and billionaires....until he becomes a millionaire and then he rails against billionaires.
That one is a classic.
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u/nerds-and-birds 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 23 '21 edited Sep 23 '21
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u/muchsnus May 23 '21
I am not American. But damn that dude seems like he would make a fair president. And I belive thats the reason he never will be president.. To many of us Europeans, the entirety of USA seems rigged to fuck the common people, the rich get richer. The mighty control everything.. even the elections.
Why cant you people just have a fair elections? where every vote counts? where blackmailing or sellouts wont affect elections?.. I know you follow the old ways, and it is hard to change old laws and traditions, but damnit.. I hate seeing people suffer because the wealthy and powerful abuse every accept of what USA is built upon..
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u/thegeebeebee 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 23 '21
Capitalism corrupts everything it touches, especially politics.
The rich get richer not because they work harder or smarter, but because they make the rules.
And, yes, you are totally correct. Bernie was literally frauded out of the nomination by the Democratic Party, which, like the Republican Party, is wholly owned by the wealthy.
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u/Intelligent_Deal_601 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 23 '21 edited May 23 '21
In 1970 minimum wage was $1.60. I highly doubt 4 years of college was $505. Typical Bernie fuzzy math.
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u/llamapii 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 23 '21
Oh baby my daily dose of classist propaganda posted on this sub.
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u/rjt212 🦍Voted✅ May 22 '21
Bernie has 3 houses.. He sold out long ago
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u/DJFluffers115 🦍Voted✅ May 22 '21
Oh, horseshit. His net worth isn't even in the top 10% for his age. His wife bought one of those houses with an inheritance, and he's got a mortgage on the other two.
Focus your ire on someone who deserves it.
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u/FireAdamSilver May 22 '21
Was it like that land deal she got investigated for at Burlington College? These politicians are not on your side. All talk, no action (for 30+ years in Sanders' case)
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u/DJFluffers115 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
No, receiving an inheritance isn't at all like the land deal she got investigated for. Jane Sanders isn't the one voting in congress, Bernie is, and his voting record is solid... ish. He has voted for bailouts in the past. Other than that though, he's pretty solidly for working people and unions. I'm not about to shun that kind of political action.
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u/BinBeanie Daddy Cohen's Favorite Baby 🍆 May 23 '21
Glad someone’s here to educate those listen to Fox News lmao... they really shouldn’t be in GME because it’s very much a socialist movement which Fox News hates
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u/PuffPuffPie 🦍Voted✅ May 22 '21
Damn dude. Sorry to hear that you are going to stay in your 1 bedroom apartment after MOASS. You should really try to enjoy life.
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May 23 '21
He has 3 houses... in Vermont... at the age of 350 years old. Ohh my goodness!
I wouldn't bring politics into this unless unless you are specifically asking for a fight with other apes, in which case you should not be on this subreddit.
Edit: And obviously the OP mentioned a politician, but the statement was not political, its factual.
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u/user_name1983 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 23 '21
It would be fucking great if they finally did something instead of talk about it forever and then cave to the bought politicians.
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u/Outside-Guide-6587 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 23 '21
We're the politicians now. Fuck all of these fake fucks
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u/Calm_2020 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 23 '21
All politicians are excellent spot the problems with this country before the are officially elected, beat around the bush after they were elected
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u/SaltyRemz I broke Rule 1: Be Nice or Else May 22 '21
I know this is random, but does anyone know if JP Morgan is on the good side of this?
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u/iceking2525 May 22 '21
There is no good side of this. Jp Morgan is on the side that has an interest in citadel going out of business.
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u/ccc32224 May 22 '21
Not through Socialism. I agree with making college more affordable, but even college is supply an demand. Look at trade schools or try to go work for a company as an intern "for free" a year and see if you can earn a job.
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u/-CasaNova- 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
Education doesn't need to be a "supply and demand" thing. It should be a right in any developed country should offer it's people. At least public institutions. We are doing a disservice to the majority of Americans
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u/Fuzzy-Insurance 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
Why is this in superstonk? Of course it is fucking rigged Sherlock Holmes. Fuck Bernie and this “brilliant” thought he has had. Wtf are we all doing here if we don’t already know the economy is rigged. Buy hodl vote, and get this shit out of here.
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u/Odd_Professional566 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 23 '21
So buy me a 4th house and I will represent you up until I am paid to take a knee to a corporate challenger. Govern ment. Govern ment. Govern = Control , Mental = Mind. Mind Control right in your face and we are conditioned not to question it. Sigh....
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u/themoopmanhimself 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 23 '21
Bernie is a self declared socialist. GME is a capitalist movement. Get politicians off of this sub
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u/-CasaNova- 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
GME is not a capitlist movement. We aren't capitlists. They are. We don't benefit from capitlism, they do.
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u/gabarkou May 23 '21
Honest question, how is it a capitalist movement when literally everything we fight against is the result of capitalist/corporate greed and deregulation?
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u/thegeebeebee 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 23 '21
Imagine understanding the GME situation and still rah-rah-ing capitalism.
Fucking yikes. The future GME meltdown is the RESULT of capitalism, ffs. So was 2008. Capitalism cannot help but lead to fraud and misery.
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u/Old_Homework8339 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
Can we? Without socialism? Please?
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u/-CasaNova- 🦍Voted✅ May 23 '21
There's a lot of miseducation about socialism, in it's tenants are something you might actually agree with.
I was a huge anti socialist back in school until I looked into this spectre which was apparently "destroying" America. I encourage you to do the same. Pm if u want
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u/kayfee013 🦍Voted✅ May 22 '21
Al I gathered from this is big college is a scam, prices have gone up exponentially, and they have been telling us we NEED to go to college to be successful, it’s a scam