idfk, just a book that (in my eyes, considering it’s age and how well it still applies to today) showed beyond any shadow of a doubt the whole thing really is bullshit.

moreso than any movie/drama saying the same thing which I’d probably seen a dozen times over the years, a dusty century old book laying it all out there removed any doubt whatsoever for me. especially when cross-examined to peculiar differences I noticed comparing US financial markets to others around the world (which generally favor stability), and who ultimately benefits most from those peculiarities.

which ultimately means that it isnt gambling/speculation…if you utilize proper risk management and know (all of) the rules to whatever imaginary line your betting on, whose moving what, what they want, and how you best make $ off their $

until, eventually, your port is large enough that your the one actually moving things. at which point certain strategies just don’t scale up as well as others (recall seeing a Buffet interview saying as much to some reporter).

Just…idk…the flippant way these motherfuckers fuck with the economy, all to just make their lines go up. and how deeply entwined that is/has been with the US government, going back a good…100-125 years atleast. like how government farming subsidies have been used to rig various agricultural futures markets…with the food just being destroyed anyway after uncle sam pays for it, all to “keep prices stable” while americans are starving.

extrapolate this out to all the other shit we’ve turned into speculation, like the homeless crisis and housing speculation. various drug/healthcare problems and our fucked up healthcare/pharma industry, all sorts of appalling health/safety regulations, nonexistent labor protections etc. etc.

and behind every single one of those issues…ultimately just some greedy motherfucker trying to make their lines up go

shit is fucked

i’m not completely batshit crazy, I dont really believe (yet) that there is some uninterrupted conspiracy chain going all the way back to fucking moses or something, just that we’ve seemingly built our economy around one generation of psychopaths breeding another to replace themselves, in some fucked up game of fake-oneupmanship.

and all thats before you take into consideration Trump and Co. (and more stressful to me, the fundamentalists behind them, which got Nixon, Reagan, both Bush’s elected…they’ve been very successful in establishing the christofacist paradise they want so badly, these last couple decades. there is a direct line of connection between the people behind the Moral/Silent Majority shit and P2025)

basically just that shits fucked, and it aint no accident/coincidence.

others on here have expanded on it, some clearer than I was expecting given what I posted so i guess it really is true, more or less.

i know, have started that process too recently. I’m just not used to feeling things so strongly i guess, and really don’t have anywhere else to turn to at this specific moment.

ph yeah, I’m not worried about $ anymore…I think that’s part of why this all came together for me tbh.

been messing with that actively for last year/year and half, very conservatively, and someone finally took pity on me I guess, and let me on the open-secret about the various speculation markets we monkeys seem so fascinated in.

I proceeded to make more in the last 2 months than I could working my day job for entire year (not counting OT), not worrying about bills/rent frees up a lot of thought-time I guess…and this wasnt some “first ones free” luck shit either, 100% certain of the outcome (well 99%, with hedge for if line turned against me)

idk about that, made them more confident…sure. but look at all these local/state elections, flipping seats that have been solidly/establishment-D for decades to independents/progressives.

people are turning out in record numbers to vote for independents/progs would suggest that the “Left” in america isnt dead…maybe they’ve just been demoralized from decades of disappointment and Trump and Co. was the wakeup call they needed

not trying to dismiss your concern, things are bad and they are probably only going to get worse for the forseeable furure…but…giving up is exactly is the first/biggest move these psychopaths have, it’s a truly insidious system we’ve managed to imprison ourselves in…

idk, Trump has done more to mobilize the left these last couple cycles than the last…30 years.

good business just backs both sides, hence why media like Time will release editions with “conservative”/democrat leaning cover-arts, for specific parts of the country.

anything and everything to keep people inside their bubbles

I wonder if this line would work to console the families of the people his gestapo have already black bagged off the street

the denial won’t end until trump is dead (ideally, in as embarrassing and compromising a manner as possible), coping for a “return to normal” that won’t manifest

“all over again”

it never went away, it’s just one part of the the same cycled playbook being used repeatedly

this is a good sign, as it means antifa will win this war just every like every other war on ideas the US has waged. US is 0 for 2 against Drugs and Terrorism

…because “he had a D by his name” was good enough for NYC, at one point.

it’s not anymore

if the DNC losed NYC, they can lose anywhere…it’s a message noone should be able to ignore

even bootlickers want to feel like they’re talking to other real bootlickers, in their online spaces, not just bot/LLM spam

(imo)…because the AI/bot deluge is slowly but surely becoming more obvious by the day.

even bootlickers want to feel like they’re talking to real other bootlickers

because “we’re better than republicans” was good enough for 2-3 prior generations but the latest arent having it. the (lack of) response to trump and co. and Israel’s genocide makes it very hard to keep up the illusion that both sides arent haven’t been the same for a long time (Cheney endorsement at DNC last year made that more obvious than ever, i hope…).

neolibs and the GOP have been ratfucking this country clean without stopping a beat for the last…30 years (and a lot longer than that, neolibs just made it less sustainable) and they still think they can go back to that when trump dies

some of these podcasters have higher viewership numbers than Kimmel, just fyi.

these boomer networks are a dying business and they know it, when people leave they don’t come back

it’s just meant as a signal to american establishment politicians that they should maybe stop betting on a losing horse

no, algos and day traders are just exit liquidity

there are very specific rule-differences between the US and EU stock markets, if you look up and really think about those differences and who benefits most from them…and what it’d look like (on the tape) when/if someone who understands those rules uses them against someone who doesn’t…

there’s a reason they say the stock market isnt the economy, the stock market originally started as a way to seperate “smart” gamblers from their $.

Bull markets, when there’s infinite liquidity, is when degenerate gamblers are running the price of everything up up up because they can, because ultimately the current spot-price is set by whoever is willing to risk the most $ at any given point.

But the more spot-price goes up beyond actual value…the more power and room the real $, whoever has the most capital and lowest cost-basis, has to rugpull those degenerate gamblers.

that is what market crashes are, the dukes clearing the degenerates off their table

the master stroke with the US is how expertly establishment politicians have tied the average US workers own wealth to that casino, 401k’s? a dem super-majority under Carter and Rockefeller set that up…enabled a constant stream of bagholding liquidity pumps.

all forms of debt (like say…insanely expensive college, guaranteed by the government)? more liquidity, and eventually somebody can just buys those and package them off as some ahitty security to be sold. doesn’t matter if they ever actually collect…

Uncle Sam paying farmers to grow specific amounts of specific crops, then just…destroying them? that insures the farmers are reliant on them, enables the banks give them loans, and lets insiders control the Futures market to make a killing. then when it’s time to rug the farmers to steal their land (cause they can’t pay their loans) and sell it off to corporate interests…just switch the party-in-power and manufacture an economic crisis that cuts those subsidies (long history of doing that, all the way back to the great depression)

and when the whole house of cards crashes down? just have the government step and add it to sovereign debt crisis, there’s no plan to pay that off anyway afterall…the idea is inflate it away, and what does inflation (read liquidity…) feed into…the stock market, make those lines start going up again to reel in a new generation of suckers

it’s a big fucking club, and your not in it

nobody actually cares about shareholders, the entire foundational idea around stock-markets was to essentially act as a liquidity trap, to seperate the new-rich from their $. and it was a resounding success.

as with many other things, most of the rest of the world regulated out the most glaring flaws in this setup so that it’s atleast somewhat functional, but certain rules/exceptions to rules exist within the american system that act as obscene advantages to insiders a/o old-money.

every single “crash” is by design, and the next rugpull won’t be too much longer now…

not talking about palestine, that is just a(n ever more obvious) distraction from problems closer to home