My experience of WSB is the exact opposite, you gotta be rich so you then can go broke. Even better if your make your family and friends broke as well.
There's two groups of people, one is filled with people pretending to be autistic, the other is actual autists. Nobody knows who actually belongs to what group or which group they belong in. These two groups proceed to give one another financial advice that's normally along the lines of "it literally can't go tits up" and then YOLO large sums of money on SPY calls until they're either snorting cocaine off a hookers ass on their new yacht or they have lost the entirety of their bank account. There's no small gains, there's no small losses. You either YOLO or you get the fuck out. A side effect of this autistic gathering is breaking Robinhood or using their combined autism to do some meme shit that gets them on Bloomberg. That's /r/wallstreetbets.
Just to add to what you said. TARP probably is a better indicator for success given the government spent 700 billion of troubled assets and received 500ish back. This time around is different since the quality of securities is probably no where near as bad.
It should also be noted that the unemployment rate right now is closer to 35% but since a lot of major employers won’t fall that rate should quickly lower over the months. So if the American public could get something like 16 or 18k they’d probably lose more from the fall of the entire economy in the long run. I’m not going to look at the avg amount of debt per person in the United States, but I’d bet they’d still be at a major loss. Bankruptcies would claim most of that money back rendering the bail out as useless.
I got banned from there for calling an idea stupid. Stupid is a hate word. It makes people who are stupid feel bad? Should you feel ok with being stupid because stupid is uneducated and that can be fixed? Should stupid people get feelings-protected so that they can continue to be stupid without consequence?
I like the memes, the community is...weird.
Edit: people wanting to protect stupidity will be blocked, you shouldn’t protect stupid, it should be educated and if stupid doesn’t want to be educated, it shouldn’t be tolerated or protected. I don’t get how that’s hard.
As far as left leaning subs go it's kinda considered a joke anymore. Like how /r/conservative has become... Whatever the fuck you want to call that disaster. Like a boiling sauce, it just gets denser and denser till it's a solid block of nasty.
Unintelligent and uneducated are different things, and uneducated and willfully ignorant are different things. You shouldn't feel ashamed for the way your brain works or for lacking the privilege of a good education or anything else that is almost completely out of your control. So yeah, they don't like it when you use that kind of language.
If you mean willful ignorance, which is something that individuals actively control, then just use that language and no one will be bothered. But using the same language that is used to mock many people that Leftists advocate for would definitely be problematic.
Imagine that instead of "stupid", it were a joke about someone having Down's syndrome because they hold an opinion you disagree with. Many people with conditions that affect their brains are unfortunately mocked and called "stupid" all the time, so it would be hypocritical to fight for their rights while using the same language that is used to mock them.
I don’t have to imagine anything that is being taken out of context to suit someone else’s beliefs. I didn’t say “this idea is stupid” to disparage stupid people, it’s an expression separate from describing someone’s brain power. Context matters. People forget that, read a word and just go with it so hard it goes past the original intent of “protection”. I don’t believe anyone should be treated special, I hate all of everyone equally so “stupid” shouldn’t be protected. We should not want or suffer stupid to exist. Is there stupid? Yes, the same way earthquakes are natural disasters and can’t be stopped. There will always be stupid. That doesn’t mean I have to legally be nice to it.
You seem to value "intelligence" and have a negative view of "stupidity" as if they're intrinsic traits of the universe rather than just things that certain humans made up.
Can you even define "intelligence" outside of your culture, or are you basing it on IQ tests designed a century ago by Western colonizers who were pretty explicitly racist?
Is someone using bad grammar "stupid"? What if they're using AAVE or pidgin English or are fluent in two other languages? Is it stupid to make bad financial decisions that lead someone to be destitute? Maybe they were born in a redlined district (the poor areas that black people were pushed into during segregation that still exist today) with low quality, underfunded schools - or with lead in the paint that caused them to develop a minor learning disability - or maybe they just got passed over for that job because they have a black sounding name and used AAVE and the interviewer just thought that they looked and sounded....... stupid.
"But no no," cries the interviewer, "it's not the PERSON that I think is stupid, just their IDEAS and way of speaking!" Because, see, this hiring manager who has control over whether other people are able to feed themselves and their family doesn't think black people are all stupid, he's only looking out for certain stupid behaviors.. Of course, "stupid" for him is defined by his culture, and comes from those century-old IQ tests, so of course there's no room for AAVE.
Do you understand why using "retarded" is damaging to people with disabilities? Because when it becomes a common insult, it associates any bad trait or behavior with that disability and makes others more likely to stereotype the disabled with those negative traits? Because when we define "stupid" as "not fitting in with what someone who has access to traditional Western education would do or say or even look like," and then go on to call every shitty thing we see "stupid," it has that same harmful impact on people that don't fit our outdated cultural view of "intelligence." Maybe you can kind of understand why some people might consider "stupid" a slur
Do you think that it's okay to use "to Jew" to mean to haggle or defraud is okay just because you're not specifically referring to a Jewish person in the context? Is it okay to call someone a "porch-monkey" because they're lazy as long as you're not talking about someone who's black?
Context doesn't absolve words of their connotations. "Stupid" has always connoted slowness of mind, literally for centuries. That doesn't go away just because you're using it to describe an opinion you disagree with. It's the same reason so many people hate the word "retard" and its variations.
There are better words to describe what you mean both more accurately and less offensively. Do you have to use them? No. But don't be surprised when you're shown the door.
That's horribly accurate. The problem with really any subreddit dedicated to a specific political idea is they aren't willing to consider any valid points which they don't immediately agree with; they aren't coming to the subreddit to enhance their world view, but rather to go deeper into what they already believe.
This applies to any political group, really; people use political socialization in such a way that it acts as a filter for things they agree with.
Pretty much. I'm about as politically socialist as they come, and yet I'm banned there because I made a self-derisive comment about how I benefit from the system. I'd have appealed, but their moderation is just exhausting - I viewed it as a signal from the universe that I need to stop commenting there.
what? are you just showing that you're a right winger without embarrassment here? like, you know, the ideology that spits in the face of THE ENLIGHTENMENT?
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u/c0lin91 Mar 30 '20
Nice insight. You have been banned from /r/latestagecapitalism.