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Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by SllX »

zouhair wrote: post #181
fireeyed wrote: post #18

"Its a big club and you ain't in it" - George Carlin Politicians + Government Lackeys, Media Hacks + Corrupt Wall Street + Think Tanks + 'not for profits' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUaqFzZLxU

I like the guy but I disagree with his fatalism. If we managed as human beings to curtail what was considered normal for millennia, to wit slave trade, we can also make things way better. We need to start by making it illegal to be a billionaire.

> We need to start by making it illegal to be a billionaire.

I’m listening. What does this law look like?

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by rufusroflpunch »

coldtea wrote: post #127
alexashka wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anyone predicted Trump becoming president 10 years ago, they would've been labelled a lunatic. Reality is stranger than the fiction we all live within, because fiction has the constraints of being something we can comprehend and live with. It has to be redeeming and hopeful, reality doesn't.

Well, Reagan became president back in 1981, which wasn't much different. If anything he was just an actor (before getting into politics, which is even less qualification that a salesman/real estate guy. And, aside from spending on BS like "Star Wars" and escalating things with USSR, Reagan also established the neoliberal greedy nightmare we live in since.

You could make that argument for every President since Woodrow Wilson at least...

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by px43 »

jhardy54 wrote: post #176
px43 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where did you live 10 years ago that wasn't run by corporate greed and corruption, or were you just too young to remember it? If anything, things are better now than they were 10 years ago, and things were even worse 10 years before that. One reason that things are getting better is that more people are paying attention, which makes that fun paradox where a bunch of people who are new to this whole thing perceive the…

Is there a specific metric you're thinking of? My understanding is that income inequality is at an all-time high, and I'd be very surprised if it were worse 10 and 20 years ago. Examples: https://equitablegrowth.org/eight-graphs-that-tell-the-story...

I was mostly speaking in terms of corporate crime/greed and the general public's willingness to let it slide, which is admittedly a pretty hard thing to quantify.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by RcouF1uZ4gsC »

chc wrote: post #186
thinkingemote wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They could use a catchy slogan like "drain the swamp"...

I think there are a couple of other recent presidential hopefuls who centered their messages much more around reducing the structural power of billionaires and large corporations.

> who centered their messages much more around reducing the structural power of billionaires and large corporations.

The problem is that there is a segment of the American voters who believe that if the current billionaires and large corporations would quit screwing them, they would become the billionaires and owners of the large corporations. As such they are all for screwing over the current crop of billionaires, but don’t want long lasting reduction in the structural power of billionaires.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by read_if_gay_ »

varenc wrote: post #215

Moderating obvious brigading is standard practice. Huge influxes of retaliatory negative reviews in reaction to external events aren't considered very genuine. I don't think Robinhood is getting any special treatment from Google here.

It’s not an external event.

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Post by grecy »

aaomidi wrote: post #38

Why do people keep needing proof that big money runs everything.

Citadel is a hedge fund that owns Melvin Capital Management.

Melvin is a $GME Short Seller that is predicted to loose BILLIONS due to people taking the free market back.

Citadel owns the app Robinhood.

Robinhood banned the purchase of $GME shares, while selling was still allowed.

How in the world is that NOT market manipulation?

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Post by r00fus »

0-_-0 wrote: post #133
TeMPOraL wrote: post #43

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Me neither. This month is crazy with very visible examples of blatant, unethical overreach of prominent companies. This thing absolutely adds up in people's consciousness. Sure, it decays over time, but right now, it adds up faster.

Someone could become US president riding this public sentiment. Let's see if it decays in 4 years...

The last one who did was great at playing lip service but gave the wealthy & big banks a $1T payout via tax cut.

Hopefully this sentiment results in structural change instead.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by ArcVRArthur »

partiallypro wrote: post #8

How were these not overall real reviews? If they can't prove otherwise, this just entrenches the idea that big money is vastly more powerful than small voices. I honestly don't see how if this trend continues how things will end well. It's not just about Robinhood, etc, it's deplatforming, using AWS, etc as a weapon against smaller voices. I can't see this ending well.

The internet has been going poorly for awhile. I don’t see how we’ll get off this track where the large crush and silence the small. I’m not sold on IPFS, GunDB, Zeronet, ect... My guess is federated XMPP or RSS might be a few of the only vestiges of resilient organization. Even Matrix has signalled they’ll begin looking into deplatforming. https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix...

Sad times in cyberspace.

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Post by f430 »

centimeter wrote: post #91
b215826 wrote: post #65

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But... but... I thought he was a misogynistic pervert who needs to be expunged from the face of the earth.

It's a good idea to stop and think why megacorps all uniformly support modern social justice movements. Beneficial side effects include: * Racial diversity decreases worker cohesion and therefore unionization risk. * Dozens of reasons to get canceled means that anyone who has a social following can be torn down if they pose a threat.

Not only that but this "diversity over meritocracy" doesn't apply to Asian Americans, especially in academia, medical, law professions, entertainment etc.

It's like there is two classes of minorities: Asians vs Non-Asians and the diversity narrative and standards differ radically for both groups.

In fact, studies have shown that this ideological drive that pushes "diversity over meritocracy" only antagonize racial relations between the groups that find themselves on both ends of "punching up".

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Post by crote »

samizdis wrote: post #84

Final edit to add: IGNORE THIS COMMENT! Nothing to see here, but I can't delete this post. tl;dr I got excited because I couldn't see the RH app returned in a play store search, even though I could see the app via a direct link. A commenter has pointed out that this is because the app isn't available where I am, in the UK. Sorry for the fuss. ---------------------------------------- I've just posted the comment below…

Some apps are region-locked. It doesn't show up in my search either, but if I manually go to its play store page [0] it states "This app is not available for your device". Blocking apps you can't use from search isn't that unexpected.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood....

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