The Donald vs Big Tech

[Kurt Cocaine]

Yeah, really suits him....

[Kurt Cocaine]

Not much activity on the forum today. Mid week slump, soy fatigue..?

[Blackout]

Mostly jobs and activities. You should try it

[Ollkiller]

Mostly jobs and activities. You should try it

Ba Dum Tish

[Kurt Cocaine]

Lol... 

Sure thing Will Ferrell...

[astfgyl]

Here is a fact checking archive on Joe Biden, most likely politically driven, but then so was much of the fact checking done on Trump.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/22/heres-the-full-list-of-every-lie-joe-biden-has-told-as-president/

I found this after reading that the Washington Post won't fact check old Joe and instead just assume he will be telling the truth. Good impartial work there.

[pete]

Here is a fact checking archive on Joe Biden, most likely politically driven, but then so was much of the fact checking done on Trump.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/22/heres-the-full-list-of-every-lie-joe-biden-has-told-as-president/

I found this after reading that the Washington Post won't fact check old Joe and instead just assume he will be telling the truth. Good impartial work there.

I don't understand the first one. What is the lie exactly?

[astfgyl]

Here is a fact checking archive on Joe Biden, most likely politically driven, but then so was much of the fact checking done on Trump.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/22/heres-the-full-list-of-every-lie-joe-biden-has-told-as-president/

I found this after reading that the Washington Post won't fact check old Joe and instead just assume he will be telling the truth. Good impartial work there.

I don't understand the first one. What is the lie exactly?

I guess it is trying to say that he lied by saying he wanted to get to 150 million shots in the 100 days, which is stretching the idea of lying a bit to be fair. My hatred of fact checkers as nothing more than a political tool was the main point of the post.

[pete]

Here is a fact checking archive on Joe Biden, most likely politically driven, but then so was much of the fact checking done on Trump.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/22/heres-the-full-list-of-every-lie-joe-biden-has-told-as-president/

I found this after reading that the Washington Post won't fact check old Joe and instead just assume he will be telling the truth. Good impartial work there.

I don't understand the first one. What is the lie exactly?

I guess it is trying to say that he lied by saying he wanted to get to 150 million shots in the 100 days, which is stretching the idea of lying a bit to be fair. My hatred of fact checkers as nothing more than a political tool was the main point of the post.

Ah fair enough then, I just thought I was struggling as opposed to it being nonsense.

Actually reading on one of is even "Sources within the Biden administration..." lied, brilliant.

And they haven't even got to Hunter's laptop yet!

[astfgyl]

What was the actual story with that laptop in the end? Was there anything on there or was it a load of shite?

I have come to my own conclusion around fact checking over the last year or so, that it sounds like a noble idea but is in fact used to convince us all that truth is lies and lies are truth. It's a pity because I used to enjoy the likes of snopes and either they had more integrity or I was more naive. Both probably.

[astfgyl]

This stock market/reddit thing is getting more interesting. Discord bans server, apps prevent free trading, politicians and influencers trying to defend the fact that the market is fine to be rigged by billionaires but not ordinary people. Crazy stuff.

[pete]

Yeah it's interesting. If the market knows about heavy shorting, why has this not been done before? What was different this time?

[astfgyl]

I think this time the right people aren't making the gains.

[pete]

I meant more why did it start. Like I presume shorting goes on all the time, is visible to the market (yes?) and people could always band together to buy shorted stock and negatively impact a hedge fund. Is it always clear a particular hedge fund is shorting the stock?

[astfgyl]

Ah I get you now. I followed r/wallstreetbets for a couple of years and while a lot of it went over my head, they had been building towards something like this for quite some time and I guess this time they simply got enough numbers together and Elon Musk's tweet seemed to galvanise them, too. I think when hedge funds were traditionally shorting the stock, there maybe wasn't a very public forum telling everyone what they were doing or planning to do. Or something like that. I have to learn a lot more to get the most out of this story but I think there will be more to come and maybe some dirt on the regular hedge funds to come out in the wash.