The Donald vs Big Tech

[pete]

Ok I get you yeah, and I see r/wallstreetbets has "4,909,919 readers".

And have they attempted it before?

[astfgyl]

I think they have tried things like this but on a smaller scale. Certainly nothing newsworthy up until now. I followed it in the hope of getting some grasp on the stock market but so much of it went over my head that I gave up. Elon Musk appears to have been playing with influencing the markets a couple of times over the last few months. I vaguely remember some other story about him tweeting something that sent stocks either soaring or crashing a while back. It might even have been his own company's stock price he was messing with and I'll have to look it up again but he seems to be a sort of cult hero on that sub.

Here's something else I came across: Vladimir Vs Big Tech

https://twitter.com/i/status/1354544120719683593

Might be a bit rich coming from this fella.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

5 second google search later...Washington Post, obviously, haven't said they won't be fact-checking Biden. They've said they don't currently have plans to set up a ticker-tape style counter of publicly communicated falsehoods, which was initially necessitated only because of the verbal diarrhoea conduit that was Trump's twitter account, the sheer weight of which prohibited an article-style fact-check for each one.

What "impartial" source did you get the distorted version through, perchance?  Not that I think the Washington Post is anything worth defending, but did you honestly think - even if at an editorial level that were the de facto decision - that they would publicly state that they just weren't going to fact check Biden??

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Ted Cruz re-tweeting AOC on the GameStop story...
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1354833603943931905

[open face surgery]

He has to be doing that to get at her more than actually agreeing with her.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

He has to be doing that to get at her more than actually agreeing with her.

Probably so...in which case, it worked! 
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354848253729234944

[astfgyl]

5 second google search later...Washington Post, obviously, haven't said they won't be fact-checking Biden. They've said they don't currently have plans to set up a ticker-tape style counter of publicly communicated falsehoods, which was initially necessitated only because of the verbal diarrhoea conduit that was Trump's twitter account, the sheer weight of which prohibited an article-style fact-check for each one.

What "impartial" source did you get the distorted version through, perchance?  Not that I think the Washington Post is anything worth defending, but did you honestly think - even if at an editorial level that were the de facto decision - that they would publicly state that they just weren't going to fact check Biden??

He even gets fact checked by the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/us/politics/biden-south-africa-arrest-mandela.html

I got it off one of the most conservative of conservative sites. It was so conservative I can't even remember the name of it. https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2021/01/23/cozy-washpost-fact-checker-admits-they-wont-count-bidens-false. Then I fact-checked it, just as you did! And lo and behold they said that they presumed that Biden wouldn't need to be subjected to a running total as Trump was, because after his press office got back to them so promptly (with democrat supporting sources about things they asked them to verify) they could tell how straight-up that this administration was going to be. Sorry for getting pedantic about it. Next time I'll stick to the point.

[Kurt Cocaine]

 

[Pedrito]

The Gamestop story gives me hope gor the world. What a beautiful way to hit the establishment right in the nutsack. The same establishment propped up by crooked politicians, shutting down speech, telling us how we should talk and act, big tech, billionaires hidden behind PR companies, a big part of the reason Trump was voted for(false messiah as he may be well have been), but regardless, just a heartwarming story all round. It won't happen again, but great to see a proper crack in the system.instead of people destroying their own neighbourhoods and people of similar social status.

[Ollkiller]

The Gamestop story gives me hope gor the world. What a beautiful way to hit the establishment right in the nutsack. The same establishment propped up by crooked politicians, shutting down speech, telling us how we should talk and act, big tech, billionaires hidden behind PR companies, a big part of the reason Trump was voted for(false messiah as he may be well have been), but regardless, just a heartwarming story all round. It won't happen again, but great to see a proper crack in the system.instead of people destroying their own neighbourhoods and people of similar social status.

First Trump is a false messiah. The reasons you outlined are the reasons he was voted in. But he is as far from a messiah as you could hope for.

As regards your comment that it won't happen again. History is full of revolts. No reason to assume it won't happen again. And with the advent of technology there's no limits to what hackers could potentially do. If they are brave enough.

And the gamestop story is fucking beautiful to behold.

[Caomhaoin]

5 second google search later...Washington Post, obviously, haven't said they won't be fact-checking Biden. They've said they don't currently have plans to set up a ticker-tape style counter of publicly communicated falsehoods, which was initially necessitated only because of the verbal diarrhoea conduit that was Trump's twitter account, the sheer weight of which prohibited an article-style fact-check for each one.

What "impartial" source did you get the distorted version through, perchance?  Not that I think the Washington Post is anything worth defending, but did you honestly think - even if at an editorial level that were the de facto decision - that they would publicly state that they just weren't going to fact check Biden??

He even gets fact checked by the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/us/politics/biden-south-africa-arrest-mandela.html

I got it off one of the most conservative of conservative sites. It was so conservative I can't even remember the name of it. https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2021/01/23/cozy-washpost-fact-checker-admits-they-wont-count-bidens-false. Then I fact-checked it, just as you did! And lo and behold they said that they presumed that Biden wouldn't need to be subjected to a running total as Trump was, because after his press office got back to them so promptly (with democrat supporting sources about things they asked them to verify) they could tell how straight-up that this administration was going to be. Sorry for getting pedantic about it. Next time I'll stick to the point.

FATALITY! 😂😂💪💪😘😘

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Huh?

Anyway, back to the real virtual world...

https://youtu.be/5MwxU8Qd0KE

Disco Trev barely speaks here at all, don't worry, but Doug is worth listening to.

[Pedrito]

Say what you will about Tucker but this is a very good breakdown of Gamestop. Now look at the pro inclusivity, pro BLM message that Robinhood was peddling and see the changes they have been forced to make since Gamestop and it reveals where the REAL power is.

While a country stands divided, normal people are at each others' throats about absolute nonsense, pie in the sky privilege discussions and wokeness and whitenese and all that crap, the real behemoths are controlling everything in the background and just feeding that whole narrative, stepping back from the fire they created, admiring their work and making shit tonnes of money off of it. People can't see the forest from the trees is the point, but it's been a long looong time since I have seen such a consensus of support for this Gamestop initiative across these ridiculous boundaries people have created for themselves.

It would give you hope but they'll ramp up the protections now and make sure that they are more vigilant in future. We laugh about ideas like the Illuminati(fair enough) but we are definitely not all equal and this world of traders, Wall street, hedge funds and the politicians they have in their pocket, big tech etc, is where the power lies. We should trust none of them.

https://youtu.be/S0HvhZIyfag

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Can one of the things we say about him be that he is from a top 1% family?

[Pedrito]

Watch the video. Everything has an angle with you ffs.