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Re: More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

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Post by gchamonlive »

dgellow wrote: post #75
gchamonlive wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In most areas (drug enforcement, basic education, healthcare, gun culture...) nobody should have been taking the US seriously maybe since Reagan. Finance, science and war were the only areas you could count on the US but now they went full Roman on the rest of the world not even that anymore. War is the only thing that's left I think.

> nobody should have been taking the US seriously maybe since Reagan. Finance, science and war were the only areas you could count on the US That was plenty of reasons to take the country seriously! Also, the US has been the most powerful cultural exporter for a very long time. It’s still the case, whenever anything becomes huge in the US we get our local version in each European countries. Our far right parties are…

Have you seen the state of AAA gaming and blockbusters lately? Even music is being utterly destroyed by the streaming platforms and record labels greed, so yeah it might have been in the 80s up until the 2010s, but enshitification got the best of the US I'm afraid so not even culture anymore. It's just decacence.

It's not all US, but as you said things start in the US and trickles down across the rest of the world, so that's also true for its decadence.

Re: More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

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Post by ImHereToVote »

groundzeros2015 wrote: post #40
ImHereToVote wrote: post #19

I don't think anyone would have predicted that Karl Marx would ever end up being as vindicated as he turned out to be.

Can you break down the participants in this story in Marxist terms?

Sure. The bourgeoisie in search of more and more profit have nowhere left to go but ransack the heartland. Outward expansion has stalled at a wall called Iran.

Re: More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

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Post by owebmaster »

101008 wrote: post #49
DougN7 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m sure you could make a ton of money on oil if you had a 30 minute heads up about whether Trump was going to bomb Iran or not on any given day.

Completely ignorant here, and I don't want to ask an AI (I don't trust them on these issues). Could you give me an example how you can make money with this information? Again, question as someone who doens't live in the US so I am not used how you can profit from this. I guess it may be because a war may impact the market and you can invest (or the opposite) with this, but in my mind bombing Iran wouldn't move the ma…

The answer is so obvious that you should try to figure it out by yourself as an exercise to avoid cognitive decline in the age of AI. Seriously.

Re: More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

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Post by fragmede »

TheDong wrote: post #45
HolyLampshade wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I had to venture a guess (and full disclosure I’m not currently working in the space, and am not privy to conversations about actually buying this product), the 100k/m for whatever the contract duration is relatively low stakes to see if there’s utility in the data. Since there is no historical data the only real option is to buy, see if it makes a difference, and dump the product at the end of the contract if it…

Even if it doesn't give any edge in terms of using the data, just paying money into Trump in more ways (i.e. a quasi-legal bribe) is enough of a benefit that I doubt many will drop it. This is a lot cheaper of a bribe than i.e. the gold plaque Tim Apple gave to Trump too.

That thing probably only cost like $50K, so more than that.

Re: More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

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Post by ceejayoz »

alephnan wrote: post #89
geoduck14 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please elaborate?

People are still buying German cars and Hugo Boss clothing aren’t they?

Germany made it illegal to display Nazi symbols and espouse their beliefs. (And hung a few.)

A bit of a lesson learned, in part, from not spanking the Confederacy's leadership enough.

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Post by ceejayoz »

Aurornis wrote: post #81
ceejayoz wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The American population has demonstrated that they'll nominate an insane criminal to power at random. Twice! I think that's gonna stick longer than the Bush to Clinton style transitions.

I’m talking about the people with decision making power and the businesses working internationally. I have no doubt that certain individuals in other countries will be holding grudges against the United States for the rest of their lives long after the country has moved on, but it doesn’t really have any effect. If you’ve spent some time traveling the world every country has older generations who have some grudge aga…

> I’m talking about the people with decision making power and the businesses working internationally.

As am I.

At a certain point, you get bitten enough times that you decide the angry cobra isn't a great pet. It may be really cool, sometimes! But sometimes it hurts you, a lot.

> If you’ve spent some time traveling the world every country has older generations who have some grudge against other countries for events that happened prior to most people being born and the younger generations don’t care.

Some end this way, sure.

For an alternative, see Gaza.

Re: More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

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Post by CaptainZapp »

Aurornis wrote: post #63
Toutouxc wrote: post #9

Insider trading as a service. No one is going to take the US seriously for the next 50 years.

> No one is going to take the US seriously for the next 50 years. I hate this obvious pay-for-access thing as much as anyone, but this isn’t going to define the US for the next 50 years. The second the next president is in office every other country will adapt to working with them, just as been happening every 4-8 years.

> The second the next president is in office every other country will adapt to working with them, just as been happening every 4-8 years.

That may well be, with one big difference.

Nobody and no country will trust the US or their commitments ever again.

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Post by hgoel »

Aurornis wrote: post #81
ceejayoz wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The American population has demonstrated that they'll nominate an insane criminal to power at random. Twice! I think that's gonna stick longer than the Bush to Clinton style transitions.

I’m talking about the people with decision making power and the businesses working internationally. I have no doubt that certain individuals in other countries will be holding grudges against the United States for the rest of their lives long after the country has moved on, but it doesn’t really have any effect. If you’ve spent some time traveling the world every country has older generations who have some grudge aga…

They're also talking about decision makers. They're going to operate with the consideration that Americans might elect another mad man. Anything requiring more than one presidential term's time will be much more carefully hedged.

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Post by mapt »

mrweasel wrote: post #69

Functionally I suppose it's the same thing, but are they paying for access to Truth Social, or early access to Trumps posts? Are there anything else of "value" on Truth Social. I haven't signed up for Truth Social, but is there actually anything else going on, besides Trumps post. Would any company have any reason to be on the platform, if Trump wasn't?

They are paying for early access to Trump's posts.

The first post they received after this system was turned on, was Trump literally posting "GREEN CANDLES. BEAUTIFUL GREEN CANDLES!!!"

This is an informal stock market term for asset values having a good day (or good minute, for that matter), with stock movements measured on a "Candlestick chart". This is a... not an admission, but a brag, that this is in fact an insider trading service, and that people who follow this insider trading service are going to make a lot of money. This is Trump announcing that he has rigged the stock market and you need to buy in right this moment if you want to remain competitive.

I am cautiously optimistic about this in some ways? Historically, the one thing you do not do in America is touch the money. There's now a hundred trillion dollars of capital that have an incentive for the lights to go out in the White House and to turn back on with JD Vance in a different seat.

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