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StarkRavingMad said:
I'm just frustrated and pissed off at this point.

The past 3.5 years have been constantly full of I told you so's ... I'm getting really tired of saying it.

At some point, I want to be wrong about the Biden Administration.
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Honestly enjoy the ride. It’s the monkey paws for these people. And I hope they get the monkey paw with Kamala being the nominee.
 
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Betonhaus said:
so are the stock markets just being propped up by lies? looks like there was some last minute tricks to prevent a big drop
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Some data came out that wasnt terrible so tensions got kind of calmed? I dont even know. Im listening to a live stock market guy and only half understanding. Japan raised interest rates for the first time in over a decade, and people had been gaming the yen for profit by exchanging usd for yen as conversion rates changed, but Japan started getting too much inflation so they rose rates. Dont quite understand but somehow the rate hike caused some numbers in the books to devalue rapidly and that is why everything sort of blew up? But I guess at the moment things are stabilizing somehow
 
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StarkRavingMad said:
I'm just frustrated and pissed off at this point.

The past 3.5 years have been constantly full of I told you so's ... I'm getting really tired of saying it.

At some point, I want to be wrong about the Biden Administration.
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What really gristles my gutters is the fact that pro-Biden people absolutely refuse to acknowledge that the guy objectively sucks.

Remember Build Back Better? No one does. It was basically a routine spending bill dolled up as some landmark legislation. It didn't do a fucking thing, but Bidenites will start foaming at the mouth, spinning around, and shrieking in tongues that the US economy is better than it's ever been. Truly bizarre stuff.
 
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Betonhaus said:
How did that work for Robinhood? I'm under the impression that a lot of people stopped using Robinhood
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Thing is, Robinhood marketed itself towards the youth as helping them break into the market. Schwab and Fidelity are the two biggest stock brokers in America so they get to say "Oopsies" without people pulling their securities out.
 
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I looked through the link. From what I can tell, maybe you can correct me - This is a glorified homeless shelter paid for by charitable donations meant to rehabilitate the chronically homeless (Drug addicts). Its a cute feelgood story but how does this apply on a national scale and more aptly how does this help working people?
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You know conveniently enough I answered this question in the part of my post you didn't quote.
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Maybe, just perhaps if the actual fucking "we" of America instead of the damn government and mega-corps got our fucking shit together "we" could find a solution. But nobody even gets to that step because "we" always skip straight to asking daddy government to help.
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If you didn't understand this I'll rephrase it. You cannot imagine solutions for problems such as this that don't involve the government because there hasn't been a sincere, honest push to solve these problems without government.

I am not saying I have the answer, I am saying I know what isn't the fucking answer and it's more of the same fucking thing that causes these problems in the first place. I used this as an example, because it's the first I've heard of such a project being undertaken with completely civilian resources - it doesn't as far as I'm aware - rely on the government such that say, projects meant to alleviate the homeless problem in San Fransisco or New York City have done. The first I've heard of such a project that, you know, built houses, anyway.

It is an example of the capacity for people to solve societal problems without crying for someone in the government to 'take care of it' so that everyone can hurry back to not thinking about it again.

To condense it further - the solutions that do not involve government have yet to be found because society has too many people unwilling to accept that large, unwieldy government is the source of, not the answer to, most of these problems. Much as you must identify a problem to begin to solve it, you must also identify solutions that go nowhere, and move on from them, in order to find alternatives that fucking work.

I implore you and frankly everyone here to go watch the latest JRE with Alan Graham. It's fucking fascinating and a perfect example of what I mean.
 
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