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How Much Have You Lost? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I didnt have much to begin with only lost about 12k, I have nothing anyway. My mother lost roughly 100k in her retirement fund from all this crashing. My grandmother even more. How much have you lost in Trump's Tantrum Tariffs game?

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[5][6][7][8] It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate",[9]

The sealioner feigns ignorance and politeness while making relentless demands for answers and evidence (while often ignoring or sidestepping any evidence the target has already presented), under the guise of "just trying to have a debate",[5][6][8][11] so that when the target is eventually provoked into an angry response, the sealioner can act as the aggrieved party, and the target presented as closed-minded and unreasonable.[7][12][13] Another maneuver of sealioning is the "Just Asking Questions" tactic, which frames false or misleading statements in the form of questions.[14][15] Sealioning has been described as "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate".[9] Sealioning can be performed by an individual or by a group acting in concert.[16]

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago

That has nothing to do with anything I said though.