Except that my little extra fun money is now being used on buying stock and crypto cuz it’s all cheap! lmao

And I was right when I said that. Cuz I now market is getting back up. This is awesome

Oh and I just used that joke on my gf, and took all the credit. She rolled her eyes, then laughed. So just know that someone else laughed, but I took the clever credits. :)

Ok, I laughed at that. You win the interwebs, guy!

Have my upvote! LMAO

I truly wish there were more here with your outlook. Seems like so many here lately have been doomscrolling and just wanna lash out and base their entire identity on politics.

I still like it here better than Reddit, but ugh, hopefully Lemmy can stop being so hateful. I am on both Reddit and Lemmy, and Reddit doesn’t seem to be as personal about it’s hate and insults like Lemmy is sometimes.

But yeah, in the end, we’re all gonna make it, brother. Some people just need to go outside more to realize it. lol

P. S. I think that there’s a wide continuum of posters. It’s not all one guy with one ideology and 100,000 accounts.

Of course, I’m just being a bit dramatic to make my point, because you have to admit that Lemmy DOES skew one way heavily. The vast vast majority of Lemmy leans left.

So far. More and more people are coming on every day. So it may even out.

But even regarding our growth, I see lots of posts saying that people should be banned if they are conservative.

And yeah, my crypto worked out awesome last time, and will this time. But I don’t invest a lot in either crypto or stocks.

I only invest what I can afford to lose. Which is why I never panic when market dips happen.

My use of the “Mulch the rich crowd” as people who will, at least (or perhaps at most) express the desire to grind up billionaires, or maybe millionaires into more useful biomass, such as mulch for their vegetable garden or community allotment.

Seems to be happening today! How come no celebration? I remember seeing Lemmy posts where people wanted to see wall street burn to the ground! Then it’d get hundreds of upvotes. What happened? Where’s that crowd?! lol

Here’s the real reason, IMHO: Because for all of the anti-wall street talk, and the anti-wealth talk, the fact is that Lemmy users on average make more than most americans. So when shit like what’s happening happens, it actually affects them. The very fact that there are so many Lemmy’s worried about their stocks shows that they are the part of the very crowd the like to see destroyed. It was all for upvotes.

Reality hits different.

Now as much as I would love to see this continue to happen. And Lemmy actually be as poor in reality as they pretend to be, I know the market dip won’t last. No millionares are gonna lose their status. All the crying Lemmys who are making $100K a year will be just fine, and they’ll continue acting like they make $15K a year and then watch their stocks rise in between fake justice warrior postings.

So yeah, I am fucking loving the news. Loving what is happening. And I think people are getting exactly what they deserve.

Also, I’m already poor. The wall street news hasn’t changed my life at all. No one tiny bit. Except that my little extra fun money is now being used on buying stock and crypto cuz it’s all cheap! lmao

That has nothing to do with anything I said though.

Even though it happened while Trump was in office and fundamentally changed the world since Trump wasn’t the sole reason it doesn’t count?

That’s correct. It happened to the world. Trump couldn’t have prevented it. No one could have. And since it didn’t happen BECAUSE of him, I’m not scared it’s suddenly going to happen again just because he’s in office.

Would you be this afraid if Harris were in office? Because the odds of a pandemic are the same regardless of who is in office.

Sure, but the majority of the poor who democrats and Lemmy portray themselves to care so much about, do not own stocks.

And I have seen plenty of Lemmy posters decry the stock market and wish it would go away. Plenty of hate for wall street and the money makers.

So something bad happens to wall mart, and now Lemmy is mad. So maybe you can explain the discrepancy to me.

Doesn’t Lemmy want to watch Wall Street and the Stock Market burn down?

And on the flip side, does Lemmy think this stock market slump will last forever and never come back, so that money is gone forever?

OR will the market come back in a bit, the rich who buy all the cheap stocks and didn’t panic-sell, will get richer and then Lemmy will yell about how the lowlife dregs of humanity who are rich capitalized on it all and actually made more money? (Hint: This is what will happen. Please save my comment so we can revist it for proof)

And my last point is true, then wouldn’t it be better to just do what the rich do, not sell, and buy now? So you can profit as well?

My entire point is that Lemmy seems confused about what they should be mad about. Do you want to see Wall Street collapse or not? Is this a sign of the Wall Street collapse or not?

Yeah? So explain the differences.

Because it didn’t end the world and it didn’t happen just because Trump was in office.

So why would the mulch the rich crowd be celebrating?

Because they know they aren’t “losing” money in the market because they aren’t selling like panic buyers are. lol They are buying.

Buy the dips. Sell when high. That’s how they stay rich. They are laughing at you right now

There is no upcoming apocalypse. That’s just doomscrolling too much of Lemmy.

BUT it’s always good to have a good supply of everything for natural disasters, pandemics, etc.

I am totally stocked and I wouldn’t have to rely on any services for over a year. When the pandemic happenend, I didn’t even flinch. I just went thru my stuff, and restocked when things got better.

My land is paid for. I can garden. I have chickens. I have solar power. I am good with my hands. And plenty of timber for heating. Snows and rains a lot here.

There will be no apocalypse just because you don’t like the president. People said the same shit the first time he was prez. But being prepared for anything is awesome. :)

Correct answer.

Because for all the big talk and anti-rich/anti-corporate talk that many Dem politicians preach–they aren’t really willing to do anything other than talk about it in order to get votes.

Republicans aren’t out to help you. Democrats aren’t either. And most of Lemmy is too busy playing PokemonGO, to actually do anything close to a revolution that would change anything. They’ll talk about it, upvote it, but they won’t actually do it. lol

I mean this sucks for people who are already retired

Meh, I am already retired and doesn’t suck for me. Now for people who were just about to take out a big chunk and sell it all, yeah, the timing sucks.

But unless you are planning on selling right now, all good. The market will come back. And most rich people are actually buying up stock right now and laughing at the panic sellers. This happens every single dip.

Almost as if you’re just saying divisive stuff. Hmm…

Just because I say something divisive, doesn’t mean I’m doing it on purpose. You do realize that some people just have different opinions than you, right? Hence the election results.

My point being, not everything is a trick or troll statement. I believe what I said; in spite of you finding it divisive, not because it’s divisive.

For the record, my gf totally disagrees with me, and is making the really really silly mistake of panic selling. Even tho I showed her facts and historical context. She’s making a huge mistake. And I’m sure I’ll hear all about it when the market comes back up and I profit (small, but still profit).

Great choice! I wish they would have followed it exactly for the movie

Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (book 1 of Book of the New Sun)

well said!

I get it, you need to work to make money and pay the rent and bills but… why me?

Because that’s what everybody has to do. You don’t get to get out of it just because you don’t like your circumstances.