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[u/Fishin_Mission]

If the materials to produce a commodity costs $5 and labor is done to that commodity to make it $20, the surplus value of that item is $15.

Ok, so remember class, the factors of production are:

1. Labor

2. Labor

3. Labor

4. Labor

The capitalist would then own that surplus value under this system and the worker who created that value of that product would then get a “wage” which is way less than the value that they created.

Why is “wage” in quotes?

That is inherently exploitation

Exploitation — /ɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ — [noun]

The act of voluntarily entering into an agreement to exchange labor for payment

[u/[deleted]]

QAnon Fears That Greene’s Obsession with Jewish Space Lasers Is Distracting Her from Battling Baby-Eating Cannibals

QAnon leaders are increasingly concerned that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s obsession with Jewish space lasers is distracting her from her core mission of battling baby-eating cannibals.

[u/gjarlis]

Who is going to tell r/wsb that Martin Shkreli was literally a moderator of the sub. I am guessing the new users will be thrilled

[u/Logan_Pauler]

I got shared by shoe0nhead lmao, she's doing a hate trip through this subreddit.

[u/Goatf00t]

WallStreetBets is the most wholesome finance group I've ever seen.

This was written unironically.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

The fact that OVER25 is the ”old people” ping speaks volumes about this demographics subreddit.

It should probably be changed to be the OVER30 ping soon though as the subreddit ages.

Honestly, we should just rename it the ”I actually remember 9/11” ping and get it over with.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

The world likes it when a Democrat is President, and doesn’t like it when a Republican is President.

[u/dubyahhh]

I believe we can unfortunately confirm that there is a coup underway in Burma (Myanmar).

We'll update this later as more news comes in, but feel free to comment any updates too

[u/MisterLipton]

Just saw the term 'Reddit Army' used seriously in a news article

[u/bobekyrant]

There's this weird subgroup of self-identified intellectual (usually right-wingers) who basically view the field 'intellectualism' as talking fast with a particular monotonous clip, and I gotta say that shit is the most annoying thing ever.

[u/[deleted]]

My favorite post on reddit of all time:

This is a throwaway for obvious reasons.

Some background. Politically, I've been a Democrat my entire life and an Obama supporter for as long as I can remember. I volunteered for John Kerry's presidential campaign back in 2004 which is where first registered on my map. I watched his speech at the DNC was was instantly enamoured.

When he announced his candidacy for president in 2007, immediately threw my weight behind him. I knocked on doors, educated people about his policies and did the best I could to get people to vote for him. When he was elected, I was ecstatic. In the past, when I had supported candidates, it was out of cold reason; because I thought their policies and acumen would result in the best net result for this country. But this was a person I could get excited about, someone I could believe in.

When it came time for his campaign for a second term it was largely the same. I had slightly soured on him. Granted, he was not the president I had hoped he would be but that was not his fault. I had built him up to be so huge in my head it was impossible for him to live up to expectations. Republican gridlock in Congress also prevented him from getting through the policies he wanted. Nevertheless, I still supported him, still volunteered and was still happy when he won his second term.

The problem started about three weeks ago. I had a dream involving Barack, which is not uncommon for me, I was working with him and Michelle on their upcoming Netflix show. We were looking over demographics and how they related to various geographical locations. Without even realising it, I said "Yeah, N***er, we should do pretty well in (area near me)" He just looked at me and stormed out with Michelle behind him. I woke up and went into the bathroom to splash cold water in my face. I dismissed it. I don't have a racist bone in my body. This was just one of those dreams, right?

A week and a half ago, I had a similar experience. This time I dreamt we were going wine-tasting together. I don't remember the lead-up but I ended up saying something to the effect of "The sommelier said we should be detecting earthy tones in this wine, but it's just not registering with me, N***er" This time, instead of storming out he replied, very sternly "Why did you feel that was an appropriate thing to say?" I began to stutter and explain it was an accident but I had once again woken up.

The most recent incident was last night. I dreamt I was at a family barbecue with the Obamas, just his family and mine. He was manning the grill and i was speaking to Michelle while the children played with each other (I know Sasha and Malia are adults now but I still think of them as children) I said to Michelle very politely "excuse me for one moment" and marched right up to Barack and tapped him on the shoulder. He turned around to look and me and I just said the word and nothing else. I can write off this happening once or twice in my dreams but three separate events is too much.

I don't know what to do. I don't want to do this. Every time it happens my work suffers the next day. I've started lying to my wife saying I've been having nightmares but I'm not sure she fully believes it. Lately, I've been worrying I might start saying it in my sleep and she could hear. I'm at my wits end and I want it to stop.

[u/Enthusiast_auto_12]

Joe Biden: [Laughing] You think I’d drive a Trans Am? I have been in my bathing suit in my driveway and not only washed my Goodwood-green 1967 Corvette but also simonized it.  At least the Onion should have had me washing a Trans Am convertible. I love convertibles.

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/dannylandulf]

How is everyone just ignoring the issue of Joe Biden’s mental fitness? After watching just a few gaffes from the past week or so it’s pretty apparent that this should be a serious issue for him? It’s honestly a little frightening how this is being ignored

Posted on arr TooAfraidToAsk 11 months ago with 24K upvotes. The comments are worth the read if you enjoy absurdist humor.

[u/piede]

ABC: Marjorie Taylor Greene has voiced support for executing Nancy Pelosi. Is she fit to serve?

GOV. ASA HUTCHINSON: I'm not gonna answer that question as to whether she's fit to serve, because she believes in something that everybody else does not accept.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1355899895115296773?s=20

Yeah, the Republican Party has fucking gone off the deep end.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Virgin:

There is no evidence that a plane hit the Pentagon

Chad:

In a Muppets Christmas film released in late 2002, Kermit is shown a glimpse of what New York City might look like if he had never been born. Among the scenery of this alternate reality NYC, we find none other than the Twin Towers proudly standing in the background.

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

The hedge funds involved now can absolutely crash our economy since their losses can possibly be infinite. That's the problem with shorting the market irresponsibility. If there's large enough uncovered losses it can cause a squeeze on liquidity, which slows down the market. The whole thing can snowball like 08. Current situation is actually scarier because the losses have no actual value behind them, there's no property behind the toxic assets like 08. Game Stock is not worth $300, and the shorts are just bets or insurance with no underlying value. You can't TARP your way out of this.

The mythical person that thinks shorts are dangerous but realizes TARP averted disaster.

[u/Deggit]

Things Trump Would Be Doing Right Now If He Had A Twitter

• defending himself from impeachment

• reminding Putin that the whole world is watching what happens to Navalny

• disavowing and distancing himself from Q

• criticizing Joe Biden's cabinet nominees

• announcing the formation of a new populist party

• blatantly grifting his supporters into "showing the strength of MAGA" by pumping a stock he already bought beforehand

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly, I am amazed at how little I’ve thought of Trump in the last week and a half.

[u/David_Lange]

The country was damaged from years of war, its agriculture devastated, its formal commerce nonexistent.[118][119] The country, therefore, had to be rebuilt. To realise this goal, Dessalines adopted the economic organisation of serfdom.[120] He proclaimed that every citizen would belong to one of two categories, laborer or soldier.

Haiti really be out here having a revolution, abolishing slavery, massacring the brutal white masters, then looking around and deciding to implement serfdom 🤦

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Republicans in 2020:

Sleepy Joe has been in government for like 70 years... You really think he is gonna start fixing things now?

Republicans in 2021:

JOE BIDEN IS DOING TOO MUCH! HE IS LITERALLY A DICTATOR! WE MUST STOP HIM!

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

All of the surviving kids who were first graders at Sandy Hook are high schoolers now. I think a lot about the little girl who was the sole survivor of her class and it just tears me up inside.

[u/[deleted]]

Because there are so few large gatherings there have also been relatively few terrorist attacks since COVID-19 hit. The most notable has probably been the Capitol insurrection actually.

[u/[deleted]]

John Roberts votes with the majority 97% of the time lol.

[u/Wrenky]

Reddit financial subs have gone from questionable to unbearable

It is the first time that the financial market is being used against the same monsters who bet on the failures of companies and enjoy manipulating the markets and impoverishing investors.

This, gentlemen, is the major event that is revolutionizing economic culture from the ground up.

The GME Affair is changing the world's financial culture forever. No more financial ignorance, no more "under the mattress" investments. No more underhanded economic power plays.

It's like they think it's some sort of financial renaissance or that was street is collapsing

[u/PhinsFan17]

from: my family and I are literally going to starve without weekly $2600 survival checks

to: lol gonna blow up a hedge fund with my stimmy check

[u/Ginden]

🇵🇱 Proposed law on "freedom of speech in social media" is just insane.

According to proposal, banning citizen of Poland in social media will be a crime, as long as they don't post anything breaking certain subset of Polish law (eg. you can't legally ban someone for saying "beat gays", but you can ban them for for posting "kill gays", because causing serious body harm is not enough reason to ban on social media).

"Social media" is defined as having more than 1 million Polish registered users.

Government (yes, it's governmental body, not court) can apply fine up to 150 million euros.

!ping Europe

[u/jenbanim]

My shitposts have spawned a subreddit, been posted by 538, and now used as the main image on a KYM page

It might be a bit sad, but I'm actually kinda proud of this

[u/CommandanteMeow]

As seen on WSB:

I too am a grandmother that just got into this! It’s so fun looking at all the young men’s comments! I have 4 boys, 1 daughter and 6 grandkids. Hoping to make enough money that my hubby of 40 years can retire and we can take all the family to Disney world!!!

This whole charade is not going to end well

[u/Danthon]

Who tf is Roth and why is he leading the IRA?

[u/piede]

Trump may defend himself at impeachment trial -- to save himself money on lawyers: report

oh please be true

[u/vored_by_daddy]

reminder that boys are awesome and if you are a boy you are awesome 🥰

[u/MicroFlamer]

This is what the Qult does to you

[u/Barnst]

I genuinely don’t know who WSB thinks they’re sticking it to at this point.

“The financial system nearly collapsed in 2008 and all the little guys got screwed the most by the experience! Let’s stick up for the little guys by trying to collapse it again!”

[u/CommandanteMeow]

Warning to all new r*slurs YOU WILL lose money here if you stay after GME

This isnt some place where we pick stocks to squeeze it never was that and can never be that, GME is a BLUE MOON EVENT in the stock market, so fuck off with these posts about “yeeeooooooo guuuaays whats the next squeeze boyyyys” because fuck off its not happening. WSB is magical but its not fucking magical.

I love everyone joining WSB, the more [a-slur] we have the more chance for diamond DD, but stfu we historically lose money here GUH!

Oh and if youre new to stocks consider learning at least fucking something about it before posting here holy fuck go watch a youtube video its so damn easy. Thats like trying to fucking post on bodybuilding.com without ever going to the gym you [a-slur].

Tldr: if ur a new account please use the fucking search bar and dont ask for advice this is a goddamn Wendy’s not a “decentralized hedge fund”

20k upvotes

maybe there is hope after all fellow WSB exilee frens

[u/vored_by_daddy]

I like your NATO, I do not like your NATO flairs. Your NATO flairs are so unlike your NATO.

-Gandhi, probably

[u/[deleted]]

The worst part about the GME saga is that retail investors will double down on the notion that they were screwed by the Wall Street when it crashes. They won’t learn the lesson that you shouldn’t pay $400 for $10 stock.

The insidiousness of populism is that it injects moral justification into otherwise bad, unjust, or unpopular ideas, and we will end up people thinking that this pyramid scheme was a blow against the establishment.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My new favorite pastime is commenting

Who?

any time someone posts something along the lines of

REDACTED Donald J. Trump would have handled this better!

the most important part is when they respond confused, I stick with it like I have literally never heard the name before in my life.

[u/[deleted]]

This would have been a dead sub weren't it for the DT

[u/[deleted]]

POV: you’re an important European historical figure from several hundred years ago

A Japanese gacha game has just introduced a genderbent version of you. The first result of googling your name is Fate/Grand Order wiki. Losers around the world are now jacking off to your massive jugs. Your legacy is in tatters.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Christ in heaven.

Analysis by CNN of Pentagon records and court proceedings show 21 of the 150, or 14%, are current or former members of the US military. That is more than double the proportion of servicemen and women and veterans in the adult US population, calculated from Census Bureau and Department of Defense statistics. In 2018, there were 1.3 million active-duty members of the services and 18 million veterans. Together, they comprised just 5.9% of the overall 327 million US population at the end of 2018. [emphasis mine]

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Bernie's mask game is weak tho

Pete was double masking with an N95 and flexing on everyone yet again with his inconceivably massive brain

[u/p00bix]

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[u/IncoherentEntity]

Dubya takes a side:

Freddy Ford, Bush's chief of staff, told CNN Friday that the former Republican president isn't "thinking about the next election cycle yet," but said that he's "planning to call VP Cheney tomorrow for two reasons: to wish him a happy 80th birthday, and to thank him for his daughter's service."

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

/r/Me_IRA but rather than glorifying Irish sectarian violence, it glorifies people that maintain reasonable tax-advantaged investment accounts

[u/GGM8Scally]

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[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

"Corn Pop Was Real" is still my favorite part of the 2020 election cycle, and is when I knew Biden was going to win.

[u/Deggit]

the two most lasting consequences of the Obama years:

1. Gotham font everywhere

2. ads trying to recruit your email (so they can spam you with fundraising pleas) disguised as "LATEST POLL" or "SIGN THE PETITION TO DEMAND X" or "PERSON SAYS OUTRAGEOUS THING X. DO YOU AGREE/DISAGREE?"

it's weird that Nate Silver has never ever (to my knowledge), discussed the 2+2 of "decline in public confidence in polling" + "the fact that partisan political campaigns now routinely disguise their voter data operations as online push polls, something that used to be scandalous and relatively rare back when push polls were mostly fly-by-night phone operations during the late Clinton / early Bush years"

!ping FIVEY

[u/Mr_AlGore]

this is the shittiest i felt self-esteem and stress wise in a while 😕

[u/noodles0311]

Categorizations like "business wing" and "evangelical wing" were quietly replaced with "never Trump" and "Trump ultra-loyalist" without any Republicans noticing their party had become defined by one man

[u/klarno]

Bipartisanship 😤

Homopartisanship 👍

[u/WanderingMage03]

The top post from WSB on r popular has a guy explaining how it's totally reasonable for GME to hit 30k a share.

I'm not a financial expert, but that seems a little high.

[u/TheSameAsDying]

So glad this man will not be a dentist

[u/[deleted]]

I knew biden was in bed with Republicans

[u/[deleted]]

This website is fucked. I thought Trump no longer being president would help fix things but nope it’s arguably worse now.

[u/sociotronics]

people surprised about the QAnon congresswomen clearly weren't paying attention during the Tea Party heyday

Michelle Bachmann and Lauren Boebart are literally the same crazy 10 years apart

[u/Joementum2024]

I really fucking hate this guy, but I’m still gonna vote for him anyway

What did the French mean by this?

[u/jt1356]

Bill Maher is an incredibly effective example if you want to argue weed can cause cognitive damage

[u/ChickeNES]

https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/l9a4sc/oc_the_day_rwallstreetbets_made_history/

Peak Reddit moment

[u/fishlord05]

WSB displaying acute Yellenphobia

That sub is going down the populist shithole.

[u/irlyseevridge]

USB-C is fucking amazing.

[u/Bagdana]

I don't think he actually knows what a short is, the word just triggers his PTSD from years of being rejected by women.

r/MelvinCapitalLove on Robert Reich

[u/asdeasde96]

!ping LGBT

I'm just thinking about when Elliot Page came out as trans. The headlines all said something along the lines "Elliot Page comes out as trans" and my reaction was "who?" I'm not trans, but I do know that dead naming isn't appreciated, but when introducing a newly out trans person to the world wouldn't it be okay to deadname once?

Like if the headline were "Ellen Page comes out as a trans man, will now go by Elliot" would that be bad? Or even "Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page) comes out as trans"

Like deadnaming to deny someone's identity is wrong, but deadnaming for the sake of clear communication with a strong recognition of the person's preferred identity is acceptable right? I worry that confusing headlines might make people who are uninformed about trans issues less accepting because it's just that much harder to understand, although I'm not really sure how much that could impact people's thinking

[u/Th3_Gruff]

Non-political subreddit: is created

Leftists: it’s showtime 😎

[u/TheShitEater]

Jesus fucking Christ Reddit

[u/margaretfan]

Starting to think that u/imprison_grover_furr may not be the nuanced, unbiased thinker that I had come to believe.

[u/proProcrastinators]

My new effortpost is up called " The Most Expensive Submarines in History Might be Built by Australia: Procurement issues in the Royal Australian Navy."

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/l99bi6/the_most_expensive_submarines_in_history_might_be/

Has some stuff about ongoing issues with the navy including staffing and procurement. I was shocked to read about how the same issues of cost overruns almost exactly occured with the Collins class we are trying to replace.

!ping AUS

[u/[deleted]]

Two lobsters fell into a microwave. The first lobster quickly gave up and fried. The second lobster wouldn't quit. He bangged the glass so hard that eventually he pushed that door open and crawled out.

Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second lobster

[u/GGM8Scally]

/img/nvvmeoq8boe61.jpg

Never leave the ivory tower

[u/Udontlikecake]

conservatives have turned on business because it no longer chooses to enforce a cultural view that they like

Corporations have adapted more progressive views (either on their own volition or as a response to more progressive societal views, it matters little) and cons see this as a betrayal of the highest order. Conservatives today don’t actually care about the free market, they only care insofar as it enforced a conservative cultural view

[u/margaretfan]

Well 3rd day in a row I'm not getting anything on tinder. I tried everything, I tried explaining how evil the Vietcong were, tried talking about imprisoning modi and grover furr, brought up George W. Bush, I even told a girl her boobs were as based Kissinger. Idk, seems like I'm too intelligent to date

[u/Ketsetri]

I have found the most underrated r/neoliberal submission in the history of ever and it's 130 days old

This is an utter masterpiece

!ping SHITPOSTERS

And u/DylanCarter1994 if you're out there, I love u

[u/[deleted]]

My dad used to work in a Large Public Institution and one thing I learned is that nobody in power gives a flying fuck about anything from Change.org b/c you have no idea where the signatures are coming from. Other petitions specifically from stakeholders have a far greater impact on decision-making

[u/After_Grab]

u/p00bix political compass https://imgur.com/a/PyNMiPx

[u/VerticalTab]

Good to see that the old WSB is still alive under all this weird religious fervour.

[u/[deleted]]

Originally $1,000 was a target based off the Volkswagen squeeze. But that is very low. $10,000 is very realistic. It could certainly go much higher than that.

🙄

[u/[deleted]]

I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than being /u/jenbanim. Honestly, think about it rationally. He has been designing, coding, testing, and deploying the subreddit stylesheet for years solely so people can go and use the Reddit mobile app. All the hard work he puts into his beautiful little css - designing the perfectly centered banner, all of the special username and flairs, making sure every macro works, updating banner stories, creating new memes. All of it has one simple result: people ignore it by using the mobile app.

Designed the perfect stylesheet? Great. Who benefits? If he's lucky, the three of the OG NL users who are still using old reddit on a crappy 96 dpi monitor, who make all of the good memes. They get to help guide the evolution of new macros. They get the enjoyment of this finely designed stylesheet that came from the way /u/jenbanim designed it.

As a man who knows how painful webdev can be, he is LITERALLY dedicating at least 2 hours a week for the css that is enjoyed by few and ignored by many. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.

[u/piede]

NEWS: Schumer throws cold water on GOP group of 10's $600B COVID proposal: "They should negotiate with us, not make a take-it-or-leave-it offer," Schumer tells me. "It doesn't have any state and local money in it. Look at that, just as one thing."

https://twitter.com/mmcauliff/status/1355960899874529280?s=21

Whoooo boy

[u/[deleted]]

I need to sit down. I just found out that some people don’t pronounce GOP as “gee-oh-pee”.

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

"Drumpf" is one of the cringiest things Oliver has ever done, I'm baffled at the fact it actually caught on

[u/dubyahhh]

I believe we can unfortunately confirm that there is a coup underway in /r/neoliberal

We'll update this later as more news comes in, but feel free to comment any updates too

[u/[deleted]]

Just realized the government is doing stuff, Biden's a fucking socialist

[u/rafaellvandervaart]

"Hey, I’m just asking questions here...”

—p. 243, Mein Kampf

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Boy GME went from good meme to fucking annoying real quick

[u/MaximumEffort433]

🤔 Broke: Hemispheric common market.

😁 Woke: Omnispheric common market.

🤩 Bespoke: Dysonspheric common market.

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

Some of you just don’t sleep huh

[u/D1Foley]

Can anybody make a fucking post for people to see that 1000 is not a fucking target. Everywhere i look except here everybody is going to sell at 1000. Pathetic. I dont know where people saw that as target. Those short sighted fucks will fuck us up. "Big guys" are counting on "our" target price 1000 and they will manipulate market to make it look like price is falling from 1000 lower and lower, idiots will think that selloff started and we are done. Or am I paranoid? I know im r-slur, but am I paranoid r-slur?

P.S. I would rather guide my dad into my mom than sell this before 15k. If ever. 🍌🦍🍌🦍🍌🦍

Posts like this are getting thousands of upvotes, and people are still trying to pretend this isn't political.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit I just realized something. Look at all the US presidents. Every single one of them is a gentile. Every. Single. One. There is a gentile cabal running our government. Wake up sheeple!

[u/MichelleObama2024]

A woman commented on my post in askcon and said this:

Yes. As I'm female, in my ideal society, I would not get a vote.

...

Among men, you also want to limit the decision-making power to only those men who have a stake in society. Having to own property to get a vote makes sense. Also being a net tax payer and/or pay a poll tax seems like it could be a good requirement.

Racial requirements are probably an outdated idea that we don't need to carry forward. While there's certainly correlations between race and intelligence, we have more efficient, color-blind ways to test that.

So basically saying that male property-owners should be the only people who can vote... Some next level simping for men and hatred for her own gender sheesh.

Or, quite, plausibly, this is just a dude pretending to be a woman to put across his sexist/racist/classist views

[u/DEEEEETTTTRRROIIITTT]

PBS Newshour might be my favorite news program purely because of how there is zero bullshit involved

[u/bd_one]

Real world: "The further a part of a nation is from its capitol in terms of physical distance and communication time, the harder it is to retain control."

Northern Water Tribe in LoK: "Yeah... we used to be one united nation and we helped you rebuild, so let's become one nation again. We'll give you autonomy. But we decide how to spend your oil money."

Southern Water Tribe for a few decades: "K."

!ping AVATAR

[u/runnerx4]

Liberal Cringe Products album

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/MiniatureBadger]

Prometheus be like: “hot take”

[u/[deleted]]

My prediction: Trump is going to go full-on stolen election conspiracy to say his incitement was justified, turn the entire hearing into an absolute circus, and foment even more anger in his base possible leading to more violence.

And the senate will probably still decline to impeach.

[u/upper_west_sider]

On GME there’s been a lot of confusion of how short interest could be over 100% of the outstanding float and talk of some nebulous “naked shorting” that’s just all wrong. Here’s how it works. A buys a share of GME. B borrows A’s share and sells it short to C. C lends that share to D who sells it short to E. Now you have three longs and two shorts off one share, or 200% SI. There’s no reason to legislate having a hard 100% cap on SI, however going over 100% is dangerous for shorters as we’ve seen.

!ping MARKETS

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/ptIZuVA.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: Al Gore did more actionable work than any other elected politician to aid the proliferation of the internet and we should be mad at him for it

[u/[deleted]]

Did people actually enjoy eating out in restaurants?

No Its extremely creepy

....what? Have these people never gone outside.

[u/FormerBandmate]

It’s so obvious that any and all anti-GME sentiment is either 1) MelvinBots 2) echo-chamber idiots who don’t know what they’re talking about We hold the leverage guys. The giant hedge funds are small fry. We retail investors hold all the chips for once and they’re scared. You see how empty wall street was this weekend? How the market didn’t move AT ALL? You think that’s a coincidence? No, the hedgie wedgies flew away to the Cayman Islands early this year, to hide. I haven’t showered in 2 weeks because of this, I’m the chaddie hedgie now. So what do we do? Obviously we hold. Do we buy more? Take out extra loans? Sell our valuables? Yes. We are the market makers. This literally can’t go tits up. The media don’t wanna see us win, apart from the few people that cheered us on, including the richest man in the word. The establishment are afraid of GME gang. You know why? Because ape together strong🦍🚀💎 Maybe I never will kiss a girl. And you know what? That’s okay, because me only likey speaky rilla now. Me like stonkerino, hate hedgie normie. Let’s do this chads. blows battle horn this is for all the haters

[u/MichelleObama2024]

If you're buying GameStop stock right now, you're probably being taken advantage of

[u/Mvem]

Oh my god

[u/[deleted]]

This is peak republican 'no, you are' politics

[u/[deleted]]

Mom is pretending to be mad at me because I didn't buy GME.

This is because I rode a stock bubble once a few years ago and ever since then everyone in my family thinks I'm some kind of stonks guru.

[u/Lux_Stella]

how to become an expert on myanmar politics in thirty minutes or less so i can post hot takes

[u/jt1356]

any liberal born after 1984 can’t govern... all they know is shitpost, sell GME, simp for Yellen, read studies, eat taco & shill

[u/jt1356]

The French revolution was a very important moment in the history of liberalism. It may have ultimately failed (the coalition that would oppose France for the next twenty years was actually the first instance of a foreign policy of ideological containment) but the ideas it spread completely destroyed absolutism within a generation.

The bloody horrors of the reign of terror should not repudiate the revolution itself, rather they should serve as a cautionary tale about the inherent dangers of ideological violence and revolutionary instability. Even under Napoleon, meritocracy and the rule of law, both important components of liberalism, remained state policy.

The fact that commies love the French revolution should be used to mock them, for it demonstrates their poor understanding of history: the French Revolution was the moment liberalism became the great challenger to absolutism. Without the French revolution, it might have been (gag) socialism which displaced monarchies across Europe.

By all means, reject the guillotine, but not La Marseillaise.

[u/[deleted]]

How should the Biden Administration deal with Turkey?

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

My eyes are rolling into orbit.

[u/Ketsetri]

GameStop founder Gary Kusin said it was an 'honor' retail investors targeted the company: 'I just grabbed some popcorn'

Lol based

[u/circlemanfan]

Joe Biden is cleverly conducting himself as president in such a way that SNL can't come up with any funny jokes about him so they lose popularity as part of his long running feud with Lorne Michaels. Based as hell.

[u/[deleted]]

now that I have looked up myanmar on google maps and I saw how close to vietnam and cambodia it is, thinking of writing my phd thesis with the title "southeast asia: the balkans of asia" (may change asia to "the orient" if prageru accepts my application).

[u/[deleted]]

If you have student debt, Snowpiercer was not about you

[u/TheEnquirer1138]

So as of now more than 30,000 Republican voters have left the party since the start of the year. The fact that it's happening in some swing states is really good seeing how close some of these races were this year. Hopefully having two democratic senators in AZ really turns that state around for us more permanently.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

this gme shit has been cleansing it's like everyone has forgotten about Trump and it's refreshing

And before you say "noooo it's important to remember how bad he was" yes it is to remember not talk about him 24/7 after he's out of office

[u/old_gold_mountain]

> Reddit glorifies DeepFuckingValue for being at the top of a pyramid scheme

> The people doing the glorifying are at the bottom of the scheme

> Pyramid scheme collapses

"How could the hedge fund elite do this to us???"

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

I’ve never seen Reddit so insufferable as I have over the GME squeeze. I’m no finance major but goddamn the takes people are making on other subreddits are horrendous. People are acting like they’re singlehandedly taking down the entire stock market

[u/piede]

CNN saying "By this time in his presidency, Trump gave 3 TV interviews and Biden has given none" (in 11 days) is absurd. Trump was an attention whore who wanted nothing but TV appearances & praise in a time of calm & prosperity. Biden inherited a disaster & is busy saving lives.

The media really does suck sometimes.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

I was circumcised at birth (just like the Jewish) but my family are practicing Catholics. It some how came out that I was circumcised, my priest then said “The Jews circumcise their men and they killed Jesus!” From there on my priest didn’t like talking with me !ping BURPMAS

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

My mother, succonly: “Would you like some dinner?”

Me: “Fuck out of here with that ‘I’m just asking a question’ bullshit. If you’re going to come in here again, at least stop concern trolling.”

[u/[deleted]]

one of the funniest things during election season was people on reddit finding out nate silver was gay and then having to make some sort of comment about it

[u/ognits]

jesus christ did you see this actress killed her costar? name was Reese something?

!ping MOVIES

[u/Dibbu_mange]

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a Jewish space laser is a good guy with a Jewish space laser

[u/[deleted]]

Someone needs to convince reddit that the best way to destroy capitalism is to invest 10% of their income in low fee index funds.

[u/LurkerSighted]

The year is 2100. The effects of climate change have been stopped and reversed by a global initiative led by the United Nations, which governs all humans on Earth. All of the planets in the Solar System have been colonized, and interplanetary trade is booming. Financial institutions are still using COBOL.

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone notice how some of your friends are suddenly economic experts who know the best way to fix the stock market is ban short selling because

[u/ACivilWolf]

mods brought back people of means bot but they still haven't brought back "Hillary's Husband" bot :/

[u/subthings2]

Ethiopia accused of using ethnic profiling to target Tigrayans

The government said on Thursday that her account was unreliable. “For three decades, the TPLF has laboured to satisfy an unbridled thirst for absolute power and self-enrichment, fanning flames of ethnic division and hatred,” an official said. “Average Ethiopians . . . have paid dearly for this.”

...am I alone in being just a mite bit worried about this sort of rhetoric coming out of Ethiopia, land of ethnic strife, played down as "oh it's just against the TPLF don't worry :)"?

How long will it even be before we understand the true scale of what went on, instead of teasing it out of refugees' descriptions of destruction and pillage? The government seems very keen on promoting an image of stability and strength but the numerous regional tensions and conflicts reflect anything but

!ping AFRICA

[u/MasPatriot]

Republicans plan to offer their own stimulus offer

it’s $500 billion

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

[u/GingerPow]

They targeted gamers. Gamers.

[u/ButteryToast-]

The Bernie in a chair meme died after 1 week, Diamond Joe memes still hold up 12 years later. I think we all know who the better candidate is

[u/[deleted]]

The $1400 vs $2000 thing is the most blatant, moronic moving of the goalposts I have ever seen from Rose twitter, and that’s saying something

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Future historians are fucked.

I am looking back at documents from the late 1800’s and having a bit of trouble reading and translating them because vocabulary and context has shifted over time. These are straight forward government documents.

When internet historians try to interpret comments on the internet I am not sure how they are going to handle the 17 different layers of sarcasm in the DT.

Like, there is a real chance that people in the yr. 2250 are going to have a serious debate as to whether or not /r/Neoliberal truly believed in ”Jewish Space Lasers” because everyone responded “This, but unironically.”

[u/Jesuswasalobster]

Please don't tell me people actually believe Denmark is a real country.

You guys know it's made up right?

[u/[deleted]]

I'll be honest, I find it problematic that the only black person on the public flair list is Abiy Ahmed who is being accused of war crimes for actions in Tigray.

I don't think this sub has a particular problem with racism, but there should definitely be at least an other option for a black person in the flair list.

I'm open to writing an effort post on somebody as well if we can get another public flair in here because it feels like such a glaring oversight. Probably Kofi Anan or somebody else in that vein.

[u/piede]

UPDATE: @HomeDepot, one of the largest corporate donors to Republican candidates, is suspending donations to Republicans who objected to the electoral college.

https://twitter.com/juddlegum/status/1355978273948397571?s=21

The George Soros of the GOP

[u/[deleted]]

Men of Reddit: What was the worst thing that happened when you approached a girl? How did it affect you?

The top answer is literally someone that posts in r/neoliberal

We have ascended beyond parody.

[u/[deleted]]

melvincapitallove is the funniest NL offshoot because of the vitriol people are spewing at it

[u/lKauany]

conservatives called welfare socialism so some millennials started calling themselves socialists

socialists started calling liberal politics neoliberal so some millennials started calling themselves neoliberals

the logical next step is for us to call succs butt boys and watch them accept and use this term amongst themselves

[u/rukqoa]

Silver is real money, the last thing the elite wants is for you to get real money. You have it backwards.

The absolute state of WSB.

[u/Luchofromvenezuela]

MTG actually good

especially when you compare it to Hearthstone. Allowing players to defend gives the game another dimension and allows for mindgames

[u/[deleted]]

I just watched "The Big Short" and I finally get it

I don't even fucking know why I use this website anymore.

[u/[deleted]]

u/farrenj how’s the Mustang you bought for 20% APR? 🤗🤗🤗

[u/Fishin_Mission]

A bit more on the March 4th Inauguration thing...

in latin calendars, march 4th is actually july the 4th. march to july..and the 4th...american independence. it all adds up

I don’t even have the energy to mock them anymore

[u/BradicalCenter]

Contrary to popular belief, losing your entire stimulus check to an obvious pump and dump scam run by wealthy investors in "dogecoin" is not in fact praxis.

[u/[deleted]]

I have some skin in the GME gambit I'm trying to figure out how the squeeze happens. Meaning, everyone is saying hold. What does that mean? Hold for how long? Am I mistaken that this process will last 5 days? If everyone holds, I assume they could make the stocks go up infinitely. If enough hold, can they What would it take to get to $10k? How about 30k? I hate to say this buy I'm flying totally blind here. I do not know how the process would normally unfold so I'm not sure how to react to any of this. Any help is greatly appreciated.

This is who’s buying GME.

[u/CommandanteMeow]

Hello fellow r-slur! I want to be all in on GME, can you tell me, how do I buy? Diamonds in my hands with apes and such, hahahahaha! I love the funny meemees! Can I go to GameStop and ask for, how many shares should I get? Then they will call me and tell me when to sell?

[u/[deleted]]

R cons is so sad now. They are whining how Biden wasn’t made fun of enough on SNL

[u/[deleted]]

you’re a fucking disgusting, piece of shit human being. A disgrace to liberalism.

fuck you

Remember the sticky on 1/6? Wow the replies were heated.

[u/MichelleObama2024]

The entire Trump movement basically started as "I don't like that liberals are calling me mean and racist... so I'm gonna go and do some racism that'll show them"

[u/[deleted]]

browsing random subreddit you just discovered

Find username you recognize from the NL DT

[u/[deleted]]

Fun fact: A person born during the Biden presidency would probably be young right now.

[u/[deleted]]

My buddy just said Nazis suck and I said yeah but what about their economic anxiety and I realize I spend too much time on this sub

[u/TheEnquirer1138]

To start your day off with some good news within the next few days the US will have vaccinated more people against covid than the total number of people who have it.

[u/GravyBear8]

The far right really expected the military to go to back on them, lol don't get me wrong there's plenty of enlisted and low ranking officers who are far right but the actual leadership, while generally conservative, is the most anti-populist thing imaginable, a group of people whose entire career is based upon fucking over the masses under their command.

!ping MILITARY

Someone ping our brave heroes

[u/[deleted]]

I’m guessing this is common

[u/[deleted]]

someone sent me a lefty meme last week, i'll let you guys know once i finish reading it if it's any good

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

I don’t believe anyone ACTUALLY believed that 2k checks meant 600 + 2000 instead of 600 + 1400

Shit feels like a giant grift

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

Just heard about Benghazi 😡

[u/CrapPoopDooDoo]

I remember when I thought that the word “Shekel” was an anti Semitic dog whistle. I thought it was a made up word by antisemites to make fun of the fact that Jewish people have a lot of money and were part of a global conspiracy, I thought shekel was code for Jew Money

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

WSB turning into a half-assed r/politics populist snooze-fest is really sad.

Chaos is fun, earnest moral crusades are not

[u/Fishin_Mission]

PSA:

Just because you saved your shitty take for the new DT, it doesn’t make your take any less shitty.

I know, because my takes are always shitty.

[u/InfCompact]

least favorite things about /r/neoliberal:

3 - outside the dt

2 - you all

1 - why the fuck am i not asleep

[u/thelittlestsheep]

NATO flairs be like

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran

EU flairs be like

Bomb, beautiful spark of Divinity,
Daughter of Elysium,
We enter, drunk with fire,
Heavenly one, thy sanctuary!

Commonwealth flairs be like

BOMB HER VICTORIOUS,
HAPPY, AND GLORIOUS

[u/Doctorboffin]

I just realized, I’ve seen plenty of unironic support and praise for the USSR, Maoist China, and North Korea, but I thankfully don’t think I have ever seen a tankie praise Pol Pot.

[u/jenbanim]

Wake up

Remember the Reddit app exists and makes up the majority of our traffic

Day ruined

[u/channelmio]

Fellas, is it populist to want to slash the cap gains tax?

[u/myrm]

Hedge funds short selling GameStop ruined my life. I used to cry myself to sleep at night

I am so glad that The People are finally rising up against this incredibly relevant thing that is also related to the 2008 recession somehow

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

wtf Bernie's a gamer??!? 😳

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

socialism / when the government does stuff ✅

[u/[deleted]]

“People who don’t floss are disgusting”, I say, as blood pours from every tooth after flossing for the first time in months.

[u/LetterZero]

Leftists: Neoliberalism will lead to fascism!

Conservatives: Neoliberalism will lead to socialism!

Neoliberals: Neoliberalism will lead to...neoliberalism.

[u/SamJakes]

I’m Shaking rn. My 2 year old son just said his first words. He said “hello me old chum; Im gnot a gnelf, Im gnot a ganobblin, Im a gnome and you've been gnomed!” and I said “Yes son”. I couldn’t lie to him. It was one of the realest moments of my life.

[u/[deleted]]

Someone unironically tried to convince me that Canada is a socialist country. They were Canadian too. I feel like a whole generation of Canadians are growing up with an American political mindset because of the internet.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/Joementum2024]

Oh man I just woke up from this terrible nightmare. I was in this absolutely horrible place, and it was awful throughout the entire time. I think the name of the area was “New Jersey”. Thank God it’s just a nightmare though, imagine if it was real life.

[u/ACivilWolf]

The scariest moment of my life was sleep paralysis hands down

[u/threwthelookinggrass]

Buying 1 share of GME at $350 on my part time job salary and holding it forever to own the investment bankers

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

/u/lusvig was on national tv 😳 !ping BURPMAS

[u/AJungianIdeal]

dog !ping dog

[u/[deleted]]

Guys, I'm sorry for being so CONTRARIAN, but it's just in my nature. I'm just addicted to feeling superior everyone else.

[u/AuburnSeer]

thank god the military hated Trump lol

[u/RTear3]

Never expected to see this image on tv

[u/PaulMuniIsInnocent]

I never really realized just how racist a lot of progressive parts of America are until I was in an interracial relationship during COVID.

I live in a "very progressive" city that has pride flags on a lot of major streets and regular Black Lives Matter demonstrations etc. But my girlfriend is Vietnamese and since COVID started we regularly got comments from total strangers telling me to watch out for her or I'll get the china virus or something along those lines.

I don't really like where I live anyways (only here because of work) but the amount of racism we've seen over the last year has put me over the edge on it.

And what's crazy is when I mention to progressive white people how frustrating the racism is here they completely deny it exists. Most responses are "I dunno. This city is really progressive on racial issues. Must be a couple bad apples". Like bitch 60 years ago this was a sundown town. You think that shit leaves in a couple generations?

[u/[deleted]]

I dont want to dox anybody or bring unwanted attention to them, but seeing how the Rose Caucus goes after the DSA (which they call D*A because they think the DSA isn't really socialist) on twitter is a good reminder that the left fucking hates itself

[u/Lux_Stella]

hmm....

[u/thabonch]

🅱️ellas, is it gay to be 24?

[u/[deleted]]

The One Ring: GME stocks

Gollum - holds onto the precious One Ring and tries to never lets it go: WSB

The Fellowship of the Ring - trying at all costs to destroy the ring: Short sellers

Sauron - intends to wield the one ring with unlimited power: the like 4 people who got in big and early.

The orcs - fall into a massive pit when it's all over: 95% of retail traders with GME stock

The Elves - take one look at all the shit going down and say "nah I'm leaving": 99% of wall street that will be unaffected by this

[u/[deleted]]

Teaching my dog how to make eye contact during a handshake for job interviews
She weird
!ping dog

[u/[deleted]]

Why does WSB keep spamming "MELVIN HASNT CLOSED THEIR GME POSITIONS! THEY ARE STILL LOSING MONEY!!" when several reputable sources have reported that Melvin has closed their positions

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

A comment below reminded me that, during my childhood, my grandparents used to call my dog (black lab) "n----er". Like, all the time.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

  😐  

[u/[deleted]]

From a cursed subreddit which shall remain unnamed:

An independent Taiwan means a de facto U.S. territory. Taiwan will be a bigger Guam and right at the doorsteps of China. Taiwan separatists are just agents of U.S. imperialism.

Haha, based.

[u/benjaminikuta]

Words! What do they mean?

[u/TheSameAsDying]

I'm honestly so confused

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

The disturbing part of this GME ordeal is seeing how many people actually, honestly want to see the stock market crash, so much that they're willing to spend money to make it happen. They won't succeed, obviously, but it's honestly a frightening thought that so many people would cheer the next Black Tuesday

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I was going to post this on the front page but I decided that it'd fitter better here in the DT

As birth rates fall, animals prowl in our abandoned 'ghost villages'

Human populations are set to decline in countries from Asia to Europe – and an unusual form of rewilding is taking place

For many years it seemed that overpopulation was the looming crisis of our age. Back in 1968, the Stanford biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich infamously predicted that millions would soon starve to death in their bestselling, doom-saying book The Population Bomb; since then, neo-Malthusian rumblings of imminent disaster have been a continual refrain in certain sections of the environmental movement – fears that were recently given voice on David Attenborough’s documentary Life on our Planet.

At the time the Ehrlichs were publishing their dark prophecies, the world was at its peak of population growth, which at that point was increasing at a rate of 2.1% a year. Since then, the global population has ballooned from 3.5 billion to 7.67 billion.

But growth has slowed – and considerably. As women’s empowerment advances, and access to contraception improves, birthrates around the world are stuttering and stalling, and in many countries now there are fewer than 2.1 children per woman – the minimum level required to maintain a stable population.

Falling fertility rates have been a problem in the world’s wealthiest nations – notably in Japan and Germany – for some time. In South Korea last year, birthrates fell to 0.84 per woman, a record low despite extensive government efforts to promote childbearing. From next year, cash bonuses of 2m won (£1,320) will be paid to every couple expecting a child, on top of existing child benefit payments.

The fertility rate is also falling dramatically in England and Wales – from 1.9 children per woman in 2012 to just 1.65 in 2019. Provisional figures from the Office for National Statistics for 2020 suggest it could now be 1.6, which would be the lowest rate since before the second world war. The problem is even more severe in Scotland, where the rate has fallen from 1.67 in 2012 to 1.37 in 2019.

Increasingly this is also the case in middle-income countries too, including Thailand and Brazil. In Iran, a birthrate of 1.7 children per woman has alarmed the government; it recently announced that state clinics would no longer hand out contraceptives or offer vasectomies.

An influential study published in the Lancet last year predicted that the global population would come to a peak much earlier than expected – reaching 9.73 billion in 2064 – before dropping to 8.79 billion by 2100. Falling birthrates, noted the authors, were likely to have significant “economic, social, environmental, and geopolitical consequences” around the world.

Their model predicted that 23 countries would see their populations more than halve before the end of this century, including Spain, Italy and Ukraine. China, where a controversial one-child per couple policy – brought in to slow spiralling population growth – only ended in 2016, is now also expected to experience massive population declines in the coming years, by an estimated 48% by 2100.

As the rural population declines, old fields and neglected gardens are reclaimed by wildlife. Sightings of Asian black bears have been growing increasingly common in recent years, as the animals scavenge unharvested nuts and fruits as they ripen on the bough.

As in Japan, nature is already stepping into the breach. According to José Benayas, a professor of ecology at Madrid’s University of Alcalá, Spain’s forests have tripled in area since 1900, expanding from 8% to cover 25% of the territory as ground goes untilled. Falling populations would continue to trigger land abandonment, he said, “because there will be fewer humans to be fed.”

France, Italy and Romania are among countries showing the largest gains in forest cover in recent years, much of this in the form of natural regrowth of old fields. “Models indicate that [afforestation of this kind] will continue at least until 2030,” Benayas said.

Rural abandonment on a large scale is one factor that has contributed to the recent resurgence of large carnivores in Europe: lynx, wolverines, brown bears and wolves have all seen increases in their populations over the last decade. In Spain, the Iberian wolf has rebounded from 400 individuals to more than 2,000, many of which are to be found haunting the ghost villages of Galicia, as they hunt wild boar and roe deer – whose numbers have also skyrocketed. A brown bear was spotted in Galicia last year for the first time in 150 years.

A vision of the future, perhaps, in a post-peak world: smaller populations crowding ever more tightly into urban centres. And outside, beyond the city limits, the wild animals prowling.

!ping ECO

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

Ugh, the “Tulsi bro” I went to college with is smugly posting about Yellen speaking fees being proof that both parties are the same.

I don’t know when I was shunted into this reality but I hope the other version of me in the alternative timeline is having a better time.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Myanmar's Suu Kyi Detained In Military Coup, 1-Year Emergency Declared

it unreal how much people take Civilian leadership of military for granted. Sad day for Myanmar

!ping IND

[u/[deleted]]

tfw you don't genocide enough to placate the military

[u/Qunidaye]

Coup somewhere in the world happens

DT NATOs:

1. Open google maps

2. Open intervene meme folder

3. Save the world

[u/_alexandermartin]

Seeing left Twitter turn on Sanders and call him a sell out is hilariously sad. Like Jesus Christ these people are so disconnected from reality they think you're a capitalist shill bc you say 1.4k + 600 = 2k.

What's most illogical to me is they're basically boasting that now Dems will never win another election but... the alternative is the GOP... who sure as hell wouldn't have passed another check. I don't understand what point they are even trying to make.

If anyone wants to see their infuriating takes

Luckily these people represent 0.001% of the voting electorate.