U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years

Post by irishcoffee » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 12:28 AM UTC

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I wasn't trying to be a jerk. There was a massive protest in the US this past weekend. Millions of people standing in solidarity. This was the 3rd such protest, each larger than the last. What has changed? One of these days the US will realize that emoting together with costumes and posterboards, bitching online, and loudly talking about how "my team is right!" is not effective. So, in what ways is it effective to gi…

>What has changed? The people of Montgomery in the 60's boycotted a bus for a few weeks. What changed? They just got hosed down in the end. If you're hoping for instantaneous change over a single event, you're not going to see that over a mass protest. The point of protests is to bring awareness and change sentiment. >So, in what ways is it effective to give a fuck about national politics? Kristi Noem didn't get fire…

Post by lenkite » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC

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Yeah, it was a big con to get folks to think that what seemed to them a huge amount of money meant that they were participating in a meaningful fashion. I've never gotten anyone who is educated in economy/finance to provide a reasonable answer to the questions: "Is the world economy large enough to support a meaningful number of people regularly investing in it, arriving at an amount able to support a comfortable ret…

It's impossible to answer because the language is too imprecise. Poor people in the US live like gods compared to people living in 3rd world jungles, but they complain just as much if not more. So you quickly realize that "comfortable" is a relative term, and envy poisons any honest measure of "comfort".