Hold on to your butts.

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    21 days ago

    Yup. We implemented those after Black Monday in 1987, and other markets followed suit. We should absolutely expect the same thing in the US tomorrow morning.

    Black Monday

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          This isn’t necessarily going to affect the ultra rich who count on crashes like this to buy up real estate and assets in mass.

          It’s practically a guaranteed win, a cheat code even .

          If you’re ultra rich and wanna be ultra ultra rich, just setup a market collapse by acquiring power. And now you’re ultra-ultranrich, and the next one is even easier.

          The undereducated masses are so easy to mislead they might as well not be a factor. It’s trivial to get the masses to fight amongst themselves by stirring the culture war pot with the near monopoly on media you and your buddies have bought. While you carry on class warfare unopposed

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    21 days ago

    This crash has to be so bad that the next US President that even so much as hints at wanting to use tariffs for any purpose other than what they’re intended for, would be personally walked to the gallows.

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        20 days ago

        I heard a lot of conspiracy theories by now, that frankly portray mostly the same concepts in a pretty convincing manner, that say that this is exactly what they want to happen. And that’s pretty damn scary.

        Basically a new world order where everyone is poor and the billionaires control the world as the new monarchs. They take the world not by violence but by systematically destroying the world economy and having enormous amounts of money themselves.

        Pretty freaking scary if true, because all the steps are apparently working splendidly.

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          It’s for sure plausible.

          Whenever a collapse happens, the rich get richer by buying up cheap assets, like houses and land.

          And since corporations are immortal, these assets will forever be owned by them generations into the future.

          It’s fiefdom, except that it’s much MUCH more stable over time given modern economies.

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            If and only if the corporations can maintain control of the government, which has the power to destroy them.

            They’ve had total control for almost a century, so that’s fairly stable, but it still would only take a few motivated populists to wrest control.

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      This has happened once every 100 years or so. And each time it’s a complete disaster for the country.

      Give it another 100 and history will just repeat itself again

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        I’d like to think we would have enough sense this time to setup a system to perpetually redistribe excess wealth

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        20 days ago

        Say you don’t believe in extreme longevity without saying you don’t believe in extreme longevity 😁

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      Lol, we are not even half a year in to his 4 year term, what do you mean “the next US President”?

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            1/16th of the way done. My gawd. It feels like eight years already. This is gonna be a long wait, you guys. And it’s not gonna feel like it’s over when he’s gone, either.

            I’m gonna celebrate on his death day, mark my words. It will be a party. Maybe a barbecue? Yeah.

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      21 days ago

      I lost mine on Thursday… I’m trying to think of it as a comedy of errors, but I admit, it stings a little.

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        20 days ago

        Head over to Reddit

        yeah, no.

        Biden Depression

        I am in awe of the shear size of the stupid. trump has redirected the “soft landing” directly into the meat grinder.

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          Jerome Powell was never going to softly land anything. It was all a smoke screen while they sold stocks and shifted their assets so that the plebes and taxpayers end up holding the bag. As always.

          Powell and Yellen should be in prison for the rest of their lives.

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            When I left it was arguably a leftist echo chamber, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Democrats and liberals left en masse with the changes over the past year or two

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                Idk man. I have always lumped left / democrat / liberal together, and right / conservative together

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                  Democrats in the US are centre-right. “Normal” Mitt Romney/GWB Republicans are far right. The current GOP is, without a drop of hyperbole, full-on fascist.

                  There is not any leftist political coalition to speak of in the US. Bernie Sanders is about as extreme as they come in the US- and he’s maybe center-left at his most extreme.

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    20 days ago

    I’ve been at Universal Studios Japan for the last 2 days. Based on the crowds and lines at every single merchant, it seems like all you have to do is expand USJ and you will print money