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Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by cheph »

ohyes wrote: post #519
technick wrote: post #474

Discord would claim its “hateful and discriminatory content” for anything in the fucked up reality we are currently living in. For instance, if you call someone retarded and a mod doesn't step in, that is considered hateful. Even though retard is in the dictionary and a widely accepted term by many people. Then saying that only retards buy the shit hedgefunds are peddling would also be considered discriminatory. I'm…

Get your point across without stomping a category of disabled person and making me think you're an immature shit-for-brains who I don't want to associate with. You act like your dictionary definition of the word 'retard' is some brilliant insight. It's garbage. Everyone, everywhere, would be better off without the 'content' that you're providing. You have the right to say whatever you want and I have the right to thr…

> immature

Get your point across without stomping a category of person.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by didibus »

gleenn wrote: post #547
ohyes wrote: post #519

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get your point across without stomping a category of disabled person and making me think you're an immature shit-for-brains who I don't want to associate with. You act like your dictionary definition of the word 'retard' is some brilliant insight. It's garbage. Everyone, everywhere, would be better off without the 'content' that you're providing. You have the right to say whatever you want and I have the right to thr…

Language isn't about beating people over the head about "mis-using" words, it's about conveying meaning. https://www.thoughtco.com/descriptivism-language-term-169044... I'm going to make an argument for linguistic descriptivism. I've never once thought, in the WSB subreddit, someone calling another an "autist" or a "retard" was ever intended to harm or disrespect people with those literal issues. It's a niche audienc…

I'm curious to know what is the meaning trying to be conveyed here which would not be received negatively by people with actual autism or caring for one?

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by georgeplusplus »

drak0n1c wrote: post #552
ohyes wrote: post #519

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get your point across without stomping a category of disabled person and making me think you're an immature shit-for-brains who I don't want to associate with. You act like your dictionary definition of the word 'retard' is some brilliant insight. It's garbage. Everyone, everywhere, would be better off without the 'content' that you're providing. You have the right to say whatever you want and I have the right to thr…

Idiot, stupid, moron, immature -- these terms are all much the same as retard in their origin as a neutral clinical label. These were terms referring to impairments that patients often had through no fault of their own. Why are some of those words still acceptably used negatively in a serious fashion, while others are taboo to be used even affectionately or in a neutral context? Why is your deliberately negative labe…

Those words you provided are all morally better suited for their use until the politically correct mob decides that too is distasteful.

Suppressing speech is retarded.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by cheph »

randmeerkat wrote: post #570

This is exactly why I think we’re in late stage capitalism. The economy has become so toxic that an army of retail investors has to yolo their money to try to realize an economic advantage in their lives. When retail investors finally do find a crack in the economic system and make some money, the regulatory body that never cared about the banks and their fraud in 2008, and the corporate enterprises that didn’t broad…

> The economy has become so toxic that an army of retail investors has to yolo their money to try to realize an economic advantage in their lives.

"has to"? really? I mean, that is quite the extreme claim.

I hope you have some evidence for me that there was no way that these could get any economic advantage in their lives without basically pissing their money away pumping a stock up way above any value that makes sense in a game of hot potato where someone is going to lose out because the price just makes no sense. I will be waiting.

I mean some might say having the money to pull this in the first place is some manner of economic advantage. But I guess not the kind of people who think they are entitled to be wealthy in a reality where being destitute and improvised is the normal state in nature if you have more than 7 billion people, and anything else took thousands of years of human development.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by foofoo4u »

gorgoiler wrote: post #556

This is how we end up with the trolls trying to turn the :ok: symbol into hate speech. ...which reminds me: I need to start a letter writing campaign complaining to Apple about peddling sexual imagery (:aubergine:) to minors.

San Jose State University banned the "ok" symbol last year. Apparently it as the official symbol of the university for decades is now deemed "racist" as a symbol of "white power". We live in an age of utter madness. Literally no sane person thinks that's what it means.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by jjcon »

newswasboring wrote: post #555
technick wrote: post #474

Discord would claim its “hateful and discriminatory content” for anything in the fucked up reality we are currently living in. For instance, if you call someone retarded and a mod doesn't step in, that is considered hateful. Even though retard is in the dictionary and a widely accepted term by many people. Then saying that only retards buy the shit hedgefunds are peddling would also be considered discriminatory. I'm…

> Even though retard is in the dictionary and a widely accepted term by many people. All curse words are in the dictionary. Dictionaries are for looking up meaning, not moral arbiters. What are you on about?

I think they mean it is in the dictionary as meaning idiotic person, not just a disabled person.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by ohgodplsno »

Anon1096 wrote: post #470
SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #273

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There wouldn't be anything wrong with that. There'd be a lot right with it, honestly - I would be trumpeting it as a clear victory of the little guy over snobby funds who don't think anyone else can understand finance. But what's happening right now is almost certainly a pump and dump with a short squeeze as a facade. I've seen a lot of commenters who seem to be grievously misled about the actual mechanics of a short…

I agree with this post. Although the narrative being spun on WallStreetBets and co wants you to believe in a short squeeze, it doesn't seem like any shorts were actually squeezed. This morning, Melvin Capital and Citron successfully exited their positions in Gamestop. Had there been a true squeeze, the whole point would have been to prevent an easy exit and force them to cause the price to balloon out of control. By…

Melvin has not closed anything, the stock is still shorted by over 135% of float.

Citron has been coping for over a week now, and is still in it.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by IfOnlyYouKnew »

gleenn wrote: post #547
ohyes wrote: post #519

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get your point across without stomping a category of disabled person and making me think you're an immature shit-for-brains who I don't want to associate with. You act like your dictionary definition of the word 'retard' is some brilliant insight. It's garbage. Everyone, everywhere, would be better off without the 'content' that you're providing. You have the right to say whatever you want and I have the right to thr…

Language isn't about beating people over the head about "mis-using" words, it's about conveying meaning. https://www.thoughtco.com/descriptivism-language-term-169044... I'm going to make an argument for linguistic descriptivism. I've never once thought, in the WSB subreddit, someone calling another an "autist" or a "retard" was ever intended to harm or disrespect people with those literal issues. It's a niche audienc…

„Retard“ has evolved and is universally regarded as an insult these days. Denying this entirely obvious fact is rather hard to square with your claim of being a linguist. The science tends to take a more descriptive approach, and to acknowledge the changing nature of language.

Re: Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while

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Post by mrtksn »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #351
mrtksn wrote: post #133

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See, the problem is that people are doing all this because they believe that it doesn’t matter. These are not idealists or indoctrinated revolutionaries. No one is going to do anything if it’s not going to bring lulz or cash quickly because nothing matters anyway. All the anti establishment movement is nihilistic in its core. These are not Eastern European kids who dream to finish school and go to Western Europe and…

"All the anti establishment movement is nihilistic in its core" Okay boys, french revolution, american revolutuon, british revolution were all a nihilistic mistake. Time to give up our hard-earned right and go back to being serfs governed by god-emperror. The establishment shall never be challanged even if it's chopping off heads, tortuning the unbelievers, raping and burning women for witchcraft. "Who knows what eas…

I am not arguing that the establishment are the goodies, just that the anti establishment don't do it for higher ideals.
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