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!badgemaxxers refer to above thread

Also a sneak peek of something

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Also if I can figure out how to stream from the steamdeck would you guys watch me play donkey kong

I'm not very good

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:marcusfootball: Super Bowl LIX Betting Thread :marseygambling:

I completely misremembered the Bill T-shirt joke and now I'm a day off :marseydalegribble: :marseyhankhill:

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NFL had their little award show/NFL Honors + Hall of Fame inductees. Sterling Sharpe is in the HoF now.

Previous Threads: week 18/MVP/Regular Season threads, Wildcard, Divisional, Conference Champs. There are 2 bets left pending the SB results.

Sunday 6:30 PM Eastern Time

Kansas City Chiefs - 121 bets

Philadelphia Eagles - 141 bets

Don't Click This - 106 bets

pings: !mensfootball !goomble !goomblers !bets @BIGBILLYKONGDONG @Freak-Off @Drippo @SpudsMackenzie

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Last thread

!art

Last weeks prompt:

Raccoons, Birds and Pizzas

Submissions from last thread:

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Panzers

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This is just what the internet :marseymetokur: is now. :marseyitsover:
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Journotards :taylorlorenzcrying: mald about another one of :elonsalute: Elon's :chudsmug: CHUD :pepezoomerhair:zoomer hires

Gavin Kliger is one of Elon's zoomer hires. Journo's first got mad when he tricked them into paying $1,000 to read a substack post entitled "Why DOGE. Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America" that was entirely blank after the paywall

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He is kinda cute tbh

Anyways now they are seething that he boosted "YT supremacist" and "misogynist" content online :marseypearlclutch#:

From USA Today:

a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online

Kliger is one of about a dozen men identified by Reuters and other news outlets who have been recruited by Musk and his DOGE office to reshape the federal government. Reuters could not determine the importance of Kliger's role at OPM.

In social media posts between October 2024 and January, Kliger has voiced controversial views and reposted content from white supremacist Nick Fuentes and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate.

In response to a post about New York Mayor Eric Adams possibly shutting down a migrant shelter in November, Kliger wrote: "Just leave them be for a few more months. Will be much more convenient to deport them all if they are in one spot."

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Kliger has reposted comments from white supremacist Fuentes, who has at times been banned from social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for hate speech.

:taylorlorenzcrying#:

In the post on X, Fuentes mocks a post praising a photo of an apparently white couple pictured with two light-skinned children and a dark-skinned baby. In his post Fuentes referred to "adopted Black kids", denigrating the apparent interracial adoption. He also used the word "huzz", a pejorative term for women. Reuters could not immediately establish the identity or ethnicity of the people depicted. Fuentes did not respond to a request for comment on the post by email.

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Kliger has also reposted social media influencer and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate.

The post, shared by Kliger, exhorts foreigners to "respect British culture, standards of hygiene and social norms. You operate within our parameters ... Problem? leave ... Multiple complaints of the contrary? Visa revoked."

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Another malding article from Forbes

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"There's that compassionate Christian conservatism and family values again."

Pure fricking evil

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THREE DAYS NOTICE!

In today's market, even a month can be tight to secure new housing and move all of your worldly possessions

Frick America (Iowa). Late capitalist hellhole.

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EFFORTPOST :marseycheemsdog: :marseymidsommardani: Tulip Mania :marseysunflower: :carpflorist: , Calvinists Propaganda, and the inability to recognize Speculative Bubbles :marseysoap: :marseysoap: :marseysoap: in one's own Lifetime - Historic Turbo Drama.

PLAGIARISM DISCLAIMER:

Greetings Dramatards :marseywave2:

If any of these exact storybeats ever sound familiar, it's because I plagiarized most/all of it from a longform Afrikaans Calvinist article (which in turn probably plagiarized it from some more famous English sources), which my father had excitedly desired me to read during the 2024 December holidays. The vast majority of the article revolved around a Calvinist introspection about self-deceit, and how History and politics is shaped by how people record and perceive historic events both during and after key happenings. Very long and boring.

But the incredible and exciting part my father wanted to showcase me, was a chapter regarding the infamous Tulip Mania period, which occurred during 1634-1637 in Holland, during the zenith of Dutch colonial and economic power, when the Dutch was by far the most prosperous nation on earth, when taken into account their meagre population and size, due to the astronomical wealth generated by the Dutch, due to the infamous VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) or Dutch East India Company, perhaps one of the wealthiest private enterprises in all of human history.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738921985K-gVb1p925Qjjg.webp .

During the period, one of history's 1st and most well documented Speculative Bubbles occurred, when seemingly the entire Dutch nation state was beset by a fervent mania from all sectors of society. Rich merchants and poor farmers would buy the new fad, Tulips imported from Turkey & China, at increasingly outrageous sums of money, for the sake of selling these (at the time) rare imported plants, which the Dutch didn't know how to perfectly cultivate, so it wasn't a gaurantee that you could just make more of them once you bought rare tulips for literal prince's ransoms!

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These tulips, which at 1st were bought, because they were the showing-off fad for the turbo wealthy new Merchant-class of the state, were then bought for the sake of selling at ever increasingly higher prices, which in turn made the tulip a fad for wealth accruement instead! Eventually, inevitably, as we can all predict, prices eventually went down, which burst the speculative bubble, and the prices went into freefall, and fortunes were wiped out of existence, as these once prince's ransom priced foreign flowers, became......priced at the rate of regular funny and unusual foreign flowers! :marseymidsommardani: :marseymidsommardani: :marseymidsommardani: :marseysunflower: :carpflorist: :marseydarkrose2: :marseyza: :marseyroses: :marseyflower: :marseyrosepink: :marseyrosered: :marseyfoxgloveyourself: :marseysocratesyourself: :marseydarkrose3:


SHORT STORY INTRO:

When Tulips arrived in Holland, it was said that the !dutch completely lost their senses. There was an infamous story about a sailor whom had been at sea long enough, to have been completely kept in the dark about Tulip Mania in Holland, and having been out of touch with the latest political/social news of his home country, as many VOC voyages could take literally as much 2 full years to complete! Of course as the Silk sailing routes were established, these timeframes reduced to less than 1 year - but still long enough to be out of tune with the country's latest excapades!

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/or13xl/how_long_did_it_take_a_dutch_merchant_sailing/h6fovy7/?context=8

Anyways, the late 1630s a dutch sailor, whom had just disembarked, had went to the owner of the goods his vessel had transported, to notify him his shit had just arrived. Gratified by this good news, the merchant rewarded the sailor with a breakfast. On the large table on which the merchant had given the sailor his meal, at one end there had laid what looked like a red onion :marseyleekspin: :marseyleekspin: :marseyleekspin:

The sailor took the onion for seasoning on his bread, and GTFO'd out of the merchant's storehouse to go and find a private spot to go eat his meal in peace. Never in his wildest imagination would he think this act would cause him such grievous misery. Just as the sailor had left, the merchant discovered to his horror, that an invaluable :marseycoin: :moneypile: :marseygolden2: imported Augustus tulip bulb was MISSING :marseyscream: which at the height of Tulip Mania was worth a whole commercial farm on its own.

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The merchant and staff ripped the storehouse asunder in their angst, looking for the missing invaluable Augustus Tulip. Eventually someone remembered the sailor being the most recent stranger in the storehouse, and the goon squad proceeded rake apart the entire port looking for him :ragejak: :ragejak: :ragejak:

They found the hapless, luckless, unfortunate & clueless sailor having already eaten the fricking tulip bulb, and proceeded to try and strangle him alive :ragestrangle: :ragestrangle: :ragestrangle: He was imprisoned for his crime!


CHARLES MACKAY:

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This infamous story, about the insanity of the Tulip Mania, comes from a very famous economic writer & journ*list Charles Mackay (27 March 1814 – 24 December 1889). In his magnum opus, the book called "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" he wrote about what he termed "Crowd Psychology" & "National Delusions".

The book consists of a series of short stories about a myriad of events in the past, but the topics are all united in the mass delusion or hysteria of crowds/nation-states, or mass adoption of fads and hysteria by groups of people. The stories covered things like the large scale witch-burnings across europe, the fad and obsession with the fake science of alchemy (turning iron into gold) and hysteria about haunted buildings.

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!bookworms The book had become immediately successful, and continued to garner infamy well beyond Charles Mackay's death - he had a strong grasp of engaging storytelling. But the parts of "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" which really REALLY :marseycruisemissile: :marseycruisemissile: :marseycruisemissile: :marseynyanisrael: :marseynyanisrael: :marseynyanisrael: propelled Charles Mackay into infamy, was his chapters about Speculative Bubbles - specifically his 3 chapters of infamous about Speculative Bubbles known before his time.

Each of the 3 chapters revolved around a particulour economic disaster, brought about by lunatics overinvesting or speculating upon companies/stocks/products well WELL beyond their realistically graded values. They were the South Sea Company bubble of 1711–1720, the Mississippi Company bubble of 1719–1720, and of course the famous Dutch tulip mania! :marseymidsommardani: :marseymidsommardani: :marseymidsommardani: :marseymidsommardani: :marseymidsommardani:


THREE CHAPTERS ECONOMISTS LOOK UP TO: :marseyopera: :marseyopera: :marseyopera:

While the rest of the book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" would be largely forgotten as interesting and entertaining reads for a book from 1840, the 3 chapters on Speculative Bubbles would reach such incredible infamy in the Economists world, that a very large amount of people would reference it historically.

Present-day writers on economics, such as Michael Lewis and Andrew Tobias, lauded the three chapters on economic bubbles.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-19th-century-book-that-helps-us-understand-the-allure--and-perils--of-social-media/2019/04/03/1879def6-5576-11e9-9136-f8e636f1f6df_story.html

====(from the WashingtonPost article)

C.S. Lewis once asked himself if anyone could actually write a story as magical as that title. To me, Charles Mackay's "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" possesses an almost equally evocative power. First published in 1841 and expanded in 1852, it chronicles some of the many varieties of human folly, obsession and self-delusion. Here, in fact, are the deep taproots of the credulity and lemming-like behavior that characterize today's social media.

More recently, economic writers such as Andrew Tobias and Michael Lewis have championed the book. Overall, one might characterize Mackay's work as popular history, conveyed in a tone of ironic, head-shaking amusement.

====(end quote)

Many people unironically considered Tulip Mania as a Classic for Economic History for the longest period. The book is so famous that non-historian economist-Journ*lists cite Mackay whenever there is a recent fraud or Speculative Bubble implosion occurring; like the recent Bitcoin and Shitcoin and NFT :monke: :monke: :monke: :marseywallst: :marseywallst: :marseywallst: Bubble implosion which has dominated headlines in economic forums and newsfeeds, when FTX caused a chain-reaction of wiping out untold millions and billions of wealth out of existence.

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https://www.esports.net/news/crypto-tanking-affecting-nft-industry/

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https://fastercapital.com/content/Bagholders--From-Riches-to-Rags--The-Plight-of-Shitcoin-Bagholders.html

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TULIP MANIA AND CALVINIST PROPAGANDA: :marseymegaphone: :marseymegaphone: :marseymegaphone:

The only problem for this internationally critically acclaimed book about Tulip Mania? It's complete absolute total bullshit, or in the very least heavy propaganda! The short story about the Dutch Sailor mistaking the tulip bulb for an onion? Complete fabrication .

The issue for Mackay wasn't that he was a deliberate liar, but that he had taken his primary sources, which were overwhelmingly Dutch Calvinist propaganda leaflets and articles, at absolute face value. Many good historians go to great lengths to decipher primary sources, written during contemporary times about events, to determine how bias from the authors could fabricate or contaminate their view of events. Mackay literally straight up consumed Dutch Calvinist Propaganda leaflets as they were!


PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS:

So what exactly was the deal with Calvinists? What the heck do they have to do with anything? Well Calvinists were relatively conservative for their contemporary timeframe, and the feared the new era of Holland having accrued so much unthinkable wealth, more than any nation-state before had ever known to have accumulated so fast and in such an incredible short timespan.

:carppolycarp: :marseyklennypriest: :marseyorthodox: :marseyfatherjoseph:

They feared and believed that all of this wealth of the Merchant-class was rotting and decaying society. They feared that this new trend of consumerism and speculation on stocks was leading to societal downfall. Dutch society had underwent intense transformation in the past 100 years in that moment in time.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738921986JAv1xv89uDdfNA.webp

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So they had created stories with near-comical carrecatures of people, where the common theme was greed and avarice being the downfall of everyone involved.

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FICTION VS BORING REALITY:

According to Charles Mackay, which took the Calvinist Propaganda at face value, the Tulip Mania was so extreme during 1637, that all levels of Dutch society went completely batshit. Other sectors of the economy went neglected, and so much was invested into Tulip Mania, it was as if Holland was expending during a World War time economy! Everybody from nobles, to wealthy merchants, to poor farmhands, were borrowing recklessly to get in upon this wealth craze.

https://hcmwealthadvisors.com/market-insights/picking-tulips-or-market-insights-for-week-ending-aug-9-2019

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According to Mackay those left holding the bag were either bankrupt, or even fricking worse - in deep debt!

In the book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" you can read of people losing their minds and selling their most valuable possessions to buy or speculate on a few Tulip bulbs. Mackay gives the example, in his story covering Tulipmania, of one particularly unhinged Dutchman, who exchanges 12 acres of land for ONE fricking Augustus Tulip Bulb! :marseytrollcrazy:


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The reality is much more dull - in fact the scale of the Tulip Mania, may have been completely fricking overblown due to Mackay's book, which has been in the public international consciousness for the past 200 years. No record of even ONE bankruptcy could even be confirmed by Dutch historians as due to Tulipmania, during the period of 1634-1637.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/

====(from Smithsonian)

Here's where the myth comes into play. According to this narrative, everyone from the wealthiest merchants to the poorest chimney sweeps jumped into the tulip fray, buying bulbs at high prices and selling them for even more. Companies formed just to deal with the tulip trade, which reached a fever pitch in late 1636. But by February 1637, the bottom fell out of the market. More and more people defaulted on their agreement to buy the tulips at the prices they'd promised, and the traders who had already made their payments were left in debt or bankrupted.

In fact, "There weren't that many people involved and the economic repercussions were pretty minor," Goldgar says. "I couldn't find anybody that went bankrupt. If there had been really a wholesale destruction of the economy as the myth suggests, that would've been a much harder thing to face."

That's not to say that everything about the story is wrong; merchants really did engage in a frantic tulip trade, and they paid incredibly high prices for some bulbs. And when a number of buyers announced they couldn't pay the high price previously agreed upon, the market did fall apart and cause a small crisis—but only because it undermined social expectations.

====(end quote)

In fact only a small fraction of Dutch society even partook in the Tulipmania, and usually only the upper-middle rich Merchant classes. Less than 5% of the whole population even bought a tulip at any point, and when the bubble burst, those whom lost money were those least vulnerable from bankruptcy. While losing half your wealth is a serious hit, these Dutch merchants were so filthy stinking rich by the mid 1640s, they literally didn't care!

Additionally, the reality was that most dutch Merchant-class bought tulips as a show of wealth, it was a demonstration of their cosmopolitan and urbane manner to show off amongst all of their straggy rich merchant friends. The majority of Tulip buyers and speculators never even expected to make money, it was like wealthy influencers and Hollyweird freaks buying branded crap like Nike shoes or Rolex watches to show off their wealth.

IN FACT, there exists something called the law of Veblen Goods, where things become sought after BECAUSE they are morbidly expensive, because they are literal "show-off" goods! (Rolexes, Ferari, ect)

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738921986JOpPf4bNvMPwig.webp

Which is what some economists believe is likely what actually happened, rather than a true Speculative Bubble like Bitcoin and Shitcoin. Or even the other 2 Speculative Bubbles which Mackay included in his book, which were much closer in reality to nation wealth destroying events.

This doesn't mean that Tulipmania DIDN'T happen, or that many peeps lost wealth, but it has been vastly overstated, in large part BECAUSE of Mackay's book.


THE REAL DRAMA REGARDING CHARLES MACKAY! :marseytrain: :marseytrain: :marseytrain: :marseytrain: :marseytrain: :marseytrain: :marseytrain:

Now the 2nd point of drama for Charles Mackay in recent times is the fact that despite his incredible infamy about his internationally successful book regarding mass mania and hysteria and fad following by crowds, and especially his famous chapters regarding Speculative insanity, was that he HIMSELF was likely a turbo midwit fool who fell head over heels for a Speculative Bubble in his own contemporary times, during which he lived!!!

Mackay was a popular economic newspaper columnist in 1841 when he wrote the book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds". And what's incredible is that not even one mention is made about what is likely THE most economically destructive Speculative Bubble in all of recorded human history so far, and which vastly outstrips the scale of even large bubbles like Shitcoin and even frauds like Enron and the Theranos fraud, which eviscerated billions and billions of wealth into nothingness.

Mackay our expert in Speculative Bubbles not only lived through the 1840s Britain Railway Mania, which destroyed wealth on an unfathomable scale, but never so much as makes a fricking peep about them!

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1840s RAILWAY MANIA: :marseytrollcrazy: :marseytrollcrazy: :marseytrollcrazy: :marseytrollcrazy: :marseytrollcrazy: :marseytrollcrazy: :marseytrollcrazy: :marseytrollcrazy: :marseytrollcrazy: :marseytrollcrazy: :marseytrollcrazy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania

By the time the 1840s had arrived, Bongland :marseybong: was at the height of its colonial power, and industrialization. And Bongland was leading European states in terms of industrializing its entire society and economy with new fabulous technologies. The most significant was the Railway and Train. :marseytrain: :marseytrain: :marseytrain: A transport technology which completely terraformed society to the same degree as radio or the internet had done during their respective timeframes.

People understood how significant the wide adoption of Railroads were becoming, and the technological improvements to the steam engine continued every consecutive year. Entrepreneurs flocked to Railroad and Transport companies, as they correctly predicted that Railways would quite literally trailblaze :onfire: :onfire: :onfire: :onfire: :onfire: the economy of britain and her colonies. The issue, is that they vastly, VASTLY overpredicted the actual economic output and influence railways & trains would have upon Bongland's economy, well beyond human reason.

https://www.focus-economics.com/blog/railway-mania-the-largest-speculative-bubble-you-never-heard-of/

====(from Focus article)

By the mid-1840s, the economy was improving and the manufacturing industries were once again growing. The Bank of England cut interest rates, making government bonds less attractive investments, and existing railway companies' shares began to boom as they moved ever-increasing amounts of cargo and people, making people willing to invest in new railways.

And at its peak, railway investment—which lagged a few years behind planning applications—surged to 7% of GDP, representing half of total investment in the economy at the time. :marseychartuptrend: :marseychartuptrend: :marseychartuptrend: :marseychartuptrend:

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But even MORE INSANE about our boi Mackay wasn't just that he DIDN'T foresee the Speculative Bubble of the 1840s Railway Mania, despite his book on Mass Hysterias, or that he cheerled the overspending on Speculating on Railroad bonds for his fricking readers whom trusted him implicitly in his articles for the Glasgow Argus, BECAUSE of his fame for the book of the book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", instead THIS MOTHERLOVER was even on the fringes of the extreme end in terms of being a nutjob Speculator for the Railroad bond market!!!!!!!!

The short story was that Britain is a relatively small island(s) and there just wasn't enough villages, cities, ports or key-points to connect via railway to make economic return upon such gratuitous overinvestment. These railroad companies would build connections between big cities and tiny Bongistan villages of like 50 people, which as you can well imagine, didn't exactly accrue trade to the scope of London to Paris.........

:marseybeanannoyed: :marseybeanannoyed: :marseybeanannoyed: :marseybeanannoyed: :marseybeanannoyed: :marseybeanannoyed: :marseybeanannoyed: :marseybeanannoyed: :marseybeanannoyed: :marseybeanannoyed: :marseybeanannoyed: :marseybeanannoyed: :marseybeanannoyed:

Just like modern China now finding out that they have likely overspent on infrastructure, where tiny villages have been connected to Beijing via 6-lane superhighways. When inevitably the grotesque overspending did not yield appropriate economic activity return from laying Railways across every square-meter of the entire fricking British Isles, the usual Bubble tanking underwent the usual market bottom falling routine.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738921987XVTqEOQmElO6Sw.webp

An unlike the Tulip Mania, the Railroad mania DID influence the entirety of Bonland's economy and social fabric. Rich AND poor people alike invested recklessly, many upon fricking Mackay's advice, and many faced bankruptcy, and worse massive debt :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2: :marseychartdowntrend2:

https://ritholtz.com/2015/06/crisis-chronicles-railway-mania-the-hungry-forties-and-the-commercial-crisis-of-1847/

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IN FACT, just to demonstrate how badly people got burned from the 1847 Railroad Mania crash, there was something called Company Scrips. Where for example you paid only 5$ for a Scrip in a 100$ share, and if the 100$ share doubled its value into 200$, you just made 100$ from 5 bucks Unfortunately for all the hapless midwits who bought into this terrible scheme, Scrips worked fricking BOTH ways. Many peeps put themselves into absurd debt for just fricking 5 bucks!


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And uh that's about it for this incredible story, hopefully this story was as interesting for you guys as well! :marseywave2:

!dutch !christians !calvinists !catholics !effortposters

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YET ANOTHER twitter wignat is exposed as brown beta :marseyviewerstare: @inevitablewest with 200k followers is actually an Indian creepto scammer :marseylaughpoundfist:

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2526904/mastermind-behind-right-wing-twitter-account-inevitable-west-exposed-as-indian-crypto-scammer

of course it's a paki paper lmao, copy &&pasted :

The mastermind behind the right-wing X, formerly Twitter, account 'Inevitable West' has been exposed as an alleged Indian crypto scammer and political grifter following a major blunder.

Saurabh Chandrakar, linked to the controversial Mahadev betting app, mistakenly promoted the app on his main social media account, inadvertently leading to his identification. This error sparked online investigations, which uncovered his alleged involvement in a massive money-laundering operation connected to the app.

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According to Indian news outlets, Chandrakar, a prominent figure behind the Mahadev betting app, is currently under house arrest in Dubai after being detained following an Interpol-issued Red Notice. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) in India is actively seeking his extradition to face charges related to money laundering, with estimates suggesting the illicit proceeds could amount to ₹6,000 crore (approximately $680 million). His case has become more complex as it is allegedly linked to several high-ranking politicians and bureaucrats in Chhattisgarh. So far, 11 individuals have been arrested, and two charge sheets have been filed.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17389497541uiNkdrC_ZHpUA.webp

The Mahadev app has become a focal point of controversy, drawing attention to Chandrakar's background. Reports suggest that he, along with business partner Ravi Uppal, allegedly ran the app as part of a larger scheme that defrauded thousands of people. The scale of the operation has raised further questions, particularly after reports surfaced of Chandrakar hosting a lavish wedding in Dubai.

In addition to his business dealings, Chandrakar gained notoriety on social media under the pseudonym 'Inevitable West,' where his account quickly gained traction. X users noticed a rapid surge in followers, with some speculating that his posts were picked up by high-profile individuals, including Elon Musk, which allegedly contributed to his skyrocketing popularity.

LMAO just lmao :dinoxd:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738949754U46ADAkUzuGo1w.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738949755eB40Barvl0eN3Q.webp

are any prominent racist accounts actually yt gigachads :teehee: this can't keep happening lmao

++ALSO be sure to look at hidden replies on his posts, he's genuinely so mad and removing every comment pointing out that he's Indian 🤣

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This is not a cost saving measure. This is a purge of federal employees who do not support their agenda. The first round is incentivized volunteer resignations. The second round will be forced resignations. The third round will be outright firings. This is a comprehensive takeover of the federal government by the MAGA organization. This is round one of a pervasive attack on the American Republic.

They are following the NAZI playbook from the 1930's.

The OLIGARCHY :marseyraging:

They are looking for cuts to pass trumps tax plan. Which will greatly enrich the rich and cripple the poor, weaken or eliminate the middle class.

What is it you think he is doing? Where do you think the money stolen from us will go? It's tax money, all our money going to the rich, 2'trillion at least. The deficit…trump blew it up round 1. Round 2 he will kill the deficit. And YOU and EVERYONE you know will pay for it for the rest of our lives.

Some reasonable people too, maybe redditoids aren't beyond saving:

I appreciate you being open to the conversation. The challenge lies in your last sentence where you state "Convince me that cutting wasteful spending is a bad idea." You're already convinced that all of this spending is wasteful. We are not.

We see value in the DOE as a vehicle to assist in equalizing access to education for all. Without this funding, kids in poor areas will not have access to the resources they need to be successful in school. In the most impoverished places, property tax is not adequate - many are renting, in section 8, or perhaps homeless and the property tax collected does not scale with the student population in those environments. Do you believe that all kids, regardless of the socioeconomic class they are born into, deserve a shot at education? We do. But the states alone are not able to provide that, particularly red states who are the biggest beneficiaries of this funding.

For a chatgpt post that took me 5 minutes to write, I've so far generated at least 1000 words, I'm hoping before the post dies I can generate enough to write a short book :marseypraying:

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https://tribune.com.pk/story/2526904/mastermind-behind-right-wing-twitter-account-inevitable-west-exposed-as-indian-crypto-scammer

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Maxine Waters is :marseyemojilaugh:

I got around https://i.rdrama.net/images/17388853590LbprZL5A49BJw.webp by posting vid directly :marseybigbrain:

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ONE FOR THE RUSTY FANS! :marseymonk:

Pretend you are as chill as him. He is so special :marseywomanmoment:

!animalposters !cats

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UK orders Apple to give it access to users' encrypted accounts :marseyhappening: :marseybonggenocide:

					
					

>Third world country "demands" anything from a trillion dollar company

:marseyrofl#: :marseybongc!#op:

The UK government's "technical capability notice" requires blanket access rather than merely assistance to access a specific account, the paper reported, citing unnamed sources.

It's over bongchuds :marseybritbongitsover: once they see my right wing memes I'm done. This is my last broadcast. :marseydisintegrate:

Except of course this isn't the first time Britain tried to enforce their Orwellian speech laws with Apple and then :chudsmug: Literally Nothing Happened :chudsmug:

That will not stop the users of /r/unitedkingdom from having a mental breakdown


It has begun. Welcome to a society without secure services.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738934152ZLu67zXz1ew-BQ.webp

Uh oh, someone's been in a coma since 2016!

Utterly mad. Amazed Apple will not turn down this request or simply threaten not to sell them in the UK. They'd change their tune pretty quick then. :chudsmug:

Lmao, good luck Apple doing that. The UK is a pretty decent chunk of their European market and with a pretty good position I would say. :marseysmughips:

:really: that's only because we have to buy a new phone every month when they get snatched by a moped rowdie :marseyblack: :marseyrobber:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/173893415265c9eh75M2iilQ.webp

Jfc, can we have just a few weeks at least without some authoritarian bullshit being thrust upon us.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738934152JQnI3jUSoYSoFw.webp reminder that bongs vigorously support mass surveillance and banning knives so they don't have to talk about the Rwandan Question

this is the thin end of the wedge and they will be coming for this on all platforms.

No because google has probably already enthusiastically served up all of its users' data :marseyxd:

To be fair, the Tories had extensive plans to break end to end encryption too.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738934153ZVOUBXNXLgbsXg.webp yes we may be jackboot authoritarians but have you considered The Tories The Tories The Tories the Tories The Tories

There is a huge difference here between 'back door with a warrant', and 'back door with no warrant'.

I believe 'back door with no warrant' is something Pakistanis were doing to british schoolchildren between the years of 2002 and 2018 :marsey57:

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I am learning to hate AI : r/teachers | Teacher shits on AI, admits it can write beautifully

					
					

I hate it I hate it I hate it. 90% of our student body relies on it to complete their work. There is near to no originality in their writing and work. We are nearing complete dependence on it from some students. AI checkers work sometimes but students just use AI then switch the words around to avoid this.

I know the upside that it has for us as a society, but we are losing creativity and gumption with every improvement. I hurt for them. I used to read beautiful student writing and didn't have to question if it was written by a program. Now I am forced into skepticism. How can we lose so much with advancement?

/u/Academic_Let_1043

What are you actually losing? Oh no kids are cheating? Kids always cheated! This is the calculator argument all over again

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:marseyreich: :!pepepunching:
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Reddit :marseydownvotemad: arrests coming!
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You can get immediate permabans by reporting the list of DOGE staffers Redditors are sharing

!reportmaxxers

Report these comments for "sharing personal information". I am genuinely surprised that Reddit would ban for sharing names.

I think we have an opportunity here to cause significant drama across all of Reddit. They'll blame /u/spez for colluding with Musk and Trump. They'll call Reddit a right-wing website now.

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Do they even report murders in bongland anymore?

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Chuds threaten to r*pe more kids

NMEC plans to comply with DOJ threats. This email was sent out Wednesday night to staff, but it noticeably doesn't mention anything specifically about LGBTQIA+ kids or DOJ, just general compliance with executive orders:

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-02-07T05:35:40.961Z
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Racist? Transgender? Transhuman? Nah. Rich.
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Average redscarepod.net chat experience

I love all of you though

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A complete accounting of the 20 SOFT RANGS OF POWER we just lost.

Geopolitical Analysis

"We lost the 20 rangs of soft power because of Drumpf, we need them ALL", says the geopolitical experts on ARR SLASH DRAMA @nuclearshill @JimieWhales

"We don't need ANY RINGS", says @Dude

You're both wrong. :marseywingcuck:

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

If one ring rules them all, the lesser rings are COMPLETELY USELESS!!

They're cuck rings, they literally bind you to the One Ring.

While we're wasting our taxpayer money on the 19 cuck rings, CHINA is taking the One Ring for herself. That's geopolitical suicide.

USAID knew this, so... why are they wasting our money?

Simple.

FRAUD

Rangs of Soft Power



Here's an accounting of the 19 lesser rings we WASTED our money on:

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky

1. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Musical in Ireland

2. Transgender Opera in Colombia

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738959031VX3yVrdY5t_0SQ.webp

3. Peruvian Transgender Comic Book Series

Seven for the dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,

4. Electric Vehicles for Vietnam

5. Tourism Promotion in... Egypt.

6. "Condom" Purchases for Gaza

7. A Fish Farm in Afghanistan (That Was Immediately Abandoned)

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738959030iD8Q92gAOVhOuQ.webp

8. A (Failed) Sesame Street Adaptation in Pakistan

9. A Mango Farming Initiative in Haiti (That Didn't Sell Any Mangoes )

10. DEI Advancement in Serbian Workplaces

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738959031y99tu0YOBSq87Q.webp

Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,

11. S*x Reassignment Surgeries in Guatemala

12. A (Failed) Program to Teach Kenyan Youth How to Use Instagram to Become Influencers

13. A Reality TV Show in Afghanistan to Promote Democracy

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738959031G1f6esLK16oL-g.webp

14. Training Mongolian Yak Herders to Use Social Media

15. A Gender Studies Degree Program in Bangladesh

16. A Climate Change Board Game for Young Activists in the Philippines

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738959031zMRL0FFoDuLf0w.webp

17. A "Hip-Hop Dance for Empowerment" Program in Senegal

18. A Workshop on Writing Feminist Poetry in Kyrgyzstan

19. A Program to Train Ukrainian Farmers to Write Grant Applications in English



Not only did they spend millions trying to acquire 19 worthless rings, but they LOST FIVE of them. The sesame street ring, the fish farm ring, the Mango ring, and last but not least, our Kenyan Influencer ring was pawned for a Dodge Hellcat.

All this to say we only needed the one ring TO RULE THEM ALL, we only need the AIDS ring for teaching Africans not to pound sand into their foreskin. Obviously Mordor refers to Africa because it's "Where the Shadows Lie". Shadows are black, what else is black? You guessed it. BIPOCs.

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r/politics is well known for having alt-right sympathizing mods

					
					

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738943017OkxfF7hqVKnKiQ.webp :#marseyemojirofl:

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the fricking sound of a fricking singularity

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I stand with Israel, and they will stand within the fricking us @H ahahaha

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r/BlackPeopleTwitter debates whether Sexy Indian dudes are allowed to say the No-No word after an unfortunate rap concert

					
					

Who typed this Wikipedia article? Were they allowed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_BIPOC_in_the_arts

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rightoid mad :chudtantrum: he got circumcised :snipsnip: (:marseymanysuchcases:), causes chud civil war (AGAIN)

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738930249E-VMWiCqdYeiBg.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738930249cVtxxFlwlpG_sw.webp rightoids don't cry about your mutilated peen for 5 seconds challenge

I had a circumcision and never had any issues with it :marseyindignant:

You carry the mark of a slave to jews bro.

:speechbubbl#e:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738930249OMtB_qOX3XvsSA.webp

They literally invented circumcision to reduce pleasure… sorry dude ur missing out

I'm not missing out on anything

:marseyblops2ce#l: what a self-own holy shit

More sanitary :broom:

You're just coping.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738930249W1XV5ZDqK5u3nw.webp

I hope you guys realise how hard it is for me to post twitter drama, I've discovered a new level of ban where I can't even read the website

We have foreskins AND soap on my country and we're quite sanitary. :marseyflagpoland:

:marseyaware: He's Polish and said this :marseyxd:

Yet another example of an explicitly anti Christian attitude being displayed by a page followed by many Christians.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738930249bzjauhMlu57Ziw.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738930250O9IMcIRgS1eH7Q.webp

:marseymerchant: how do you do my fellow Christians

Let's hear the female opinion. Do you want a fruit roll up with stinky schmegma in it, or a normal looking one with 0 crust in front of you?

>:marseysoylentgrin: Let's hear the female opinion!

https://media.tenor.com/LNOwkqOd_WkAAAAx/lets-not-not.webp

So strange……dudes obsessed with other dudes peepees

@Sneedman :marseysmughips:

you sound like an unclipped savage, son

:speechb!ubbl#e:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738930250DK18E0KRjy43iQ.webp

My friend's son got bad UTI that started affecting his kidneys because of that peepee skin.

:really: how do you tell a twitter user their friend's son was molested

The account admin is def an Indian.

>posted by moroccan

https://media.tenor.com/AfVutWBCnYIAAAAx/simpsons-monkey-fight.webp BROWN FIGHT :letsfuckinggofast:

It's healthier and more hygienic

I'm noticing :marseynoooticer: that this take only comes from third worlders with no access to soap... and Americans. :marseymutt: what means :marseyhmm:


https://media.tenor.com/R2ibOYkkLb0AAAAx/please.webp @Kongvann

Let's get a fight going in the comments :marseytense:

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Still not asking for it

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