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Well, you got in cheaper than me. I don't know what a fair price is though given Gamestop was been trading between $4-$15 for the past few years and n...

Yeah, stock market investing or trading has definitely become recreation, especially during the pandemic when everyone's staying home. While GME and A...

This is not correct. All of these financial products are different. Index funds are different from mutual funds which are different from hedge funds.

I don't know about Melvin specifically, but with hedge funds generally if you wanted to be accepted as a client you'd need atleast $100k if not $1mm t...

This is why people need to learn to manage their own finances and not trust everything to a "professional." I have a tough time understanding or sympa...

Who the hell puts all of their retirement savings into a hedge fund? So what now, do we just protect the hedge funds then? Pour billions of taxpayers ...

I actually like AMC as a company; they're a nice chain in the US and I've been to AMC theaters countless times and would love to see them reopen after...

Why would being wrong mean that you're cast into the scrap heap? Who makes that decision? Are serious thinkers not allowed to be wrong?

If you totally remove ego from the picture, being wrong is actually much better because when you realize you're wrong that brings you closer to the tr...

I'm not saying that I'm 100% onboard with the "conspiracy" view, but it is worth noting that silver is up over 8% on the daily which far outstrips ove...

I've never actually used the app and I've heard it isn't great. I just access Vanguard through chrome on my laptop. EDIT: I think you need to be a US ...

Try Vanguard. It's not a high-tech trading platform or anything, but it'll get the job done. Zero fees and commissions too. Also anyone getting inunda...

What are the problems it may cause for these people? EDIT: Scratch that, nevermind responding. I didn't read your post the first time because I just s...

I'm looking at GME's balance sheet and it does seem that GME holds $GME common stock so getting shorted on a massive scale can't be too helpful there....

Why is it a perpetual loan rather than a one-time loan when the stock is issued for the first time and sold to the public? I understand that shorting ...

I just don't know the exact breakdown there. I'm not here to call you out for not being PC. I'm just curious as to where you draw the line. Is a tall ...

Heavy short selling suppressed gamestop's stock price for years, this hurts the company, no? Suppressing the share price leads to a lower market cap f...

It's a good thing to reflect upon those instinctual thoughts and dispel them upon reflection. That's part of being a good person - you don't just iden...

Just because something can be modified doesn't mean that it necessarily will modify in terms of instinct. We don't really control our immediate respon...

A belief is something that you actually consciously believe. People aren't guilty for their instincts or fantasies, if they were the entire world woul...

But those aren't beliefs; I'm talking more about instincts.

If there's something shitty about shorting a struggling brick and mortar retailer during a pandemic, then there's something much shittier about removi...

I'd agree, but it's not worth flagellating oneself over an attitude one has on a subconscious level. If the prejudice becomes an actual belief then so...

Our financial system is obviously messed up beyond belief and nothing really surprises me anymore including brokerages removing the ability to buy GME...

I think homosexuality comes down to one's biological responses - who are you attracted to? We can't control our sexual desires and arousal, but we of ...

Dingo, you do know that homosexuals can have kids, right? I feel like given that new information you may want to revise your response.

a) I'm not sure what you're talking about specifically here. It seems entirely plausible that there could be two communities which face essentially th...

I was being sarcastic; obviously Kant or Hegel is not appropriate reading for children. I don't even know if Hegel is appropriate reading for anybody....

I was talking about this subject under the pretense that the problems/causes are equal, so we're not talking scale of problem here. For instance, if t...

Thanks for the anecdote, and I don't mean that sarcastically, but I am actually curious to your answer here when it comes to responsibility. Do you co...

Peterson is talking to young revolutionaries who have accomplished nothing notable and are yet intent on deconstructing the entire system and re-build...

The aforementioned point about self-mastery can viewed as an attack or Marxism or not. I don't really care. It can be viewed on its own too, and I thi...

This is a stupid conversation so I'm going to drop it. Just try to be mindful of what you're implying when you write. I'm not the only poster on this ...

Here you heavily imply that he reaches out to the alt-right for nefarious reasons. So you're saying he's not reaching out to them from an intellectual...

Ok so JBP's goal is actually to make everybody more racist and sexist, ok got it. Life must be so easy when the opposition are all Nazis and racists. ...

Hey, you watch your tone. Rafaella is a beautiful & intelligent woman and she makes interesting points that deserve to be addressed. I always love rea...

Ok but in a sense it could just always be elitist, it's just a matter of how much elitism we're talking. The homeless guy isn't going to be able to af...

The housing market is always going to price out some part of the population, it's just a matter of how big that part it. Even if prices were dirt chea...

But what do you have against homeowners building equity in their property and gaining wealth through that? That's not only for the upper class, the mi...

So is the solution to ban renting? Does that really make a lot of sense? You know that renting out part of the house can also make paying off a mortga...

In order to do this you'd have to plop down a significant amount of cash and likely cash out investments. This is often a bad financial move because t...

All the leftists would be eating each other over the correct interpretation of Marx. You're lucky you have the right-wingers here to serve as the comm...

Do you know the races of the officers involved in the shootings? I'd be interested to know whether this is a white officer problem or not.

One of these days I should just pick a random argument with you and misinterpret everything you say.

Duh, obviously.

It's good that you mentioned that you're a centrist, that will surely de-escalate things.

I don't even know if a forum full of classical liberals/right libertarians would even be sustainable when it comes to talk on philosophy. We'd all pro...

Yeah. One thing I gleaned from my discussion with Kenosha Kid was that he essentially views the enterprise of politics as nothing short of war, with t...

Nobody is against cleaning up swastikas from building, but you can't go around punching fascists simply for speaking, sorry.

First, thanks for the detailed historical write up. I enjoyed learning about this event from your descriptions. I would say in that instance it was ac...