[The Sabbaticus]

Celebrity and pop culture correspondent The Sabbaticus

Genetic fallacy! Genetic fallacy!

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Another irony candidate.

[Donna]

Not much sympathy here. This guy put himself on the line for his favorite bar. The fact that he was prioritizing some guy's property and his own vain consumption over the struggle for racial justice is what probably got his ass kicked. It becomes very obvious when white people are racially tone deaf and things can escalate pretty quickly.

[XogGyux]

Not much sympathy here. This guy put himself on the line for his favorite bar. The fact that he was prioritizing some guy's property and his own vain consumption over the struggle for racial justice is what probably got his ass kicked. It becomes very obvious when white people are racially tone deaf and things can escalate pretty quickly.

Don't get drunk in your own self-righteousness.
This is not like black guys' life is going to get better by burning shit down to the core. Beating someone to a pulp is not a solution to anything.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

[XogGyux]

[colliric]

Jimmy is great. Love listening to him.

[noemon]

Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter!

[XogGyux]

Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter!

That's Trump's inauguration crowd, just a bit early.

All the haters complained that he would not be able to handle a crisis. Who is laughing now that he did such an amazing job?

Oh shit, a bunch of black guys burning an American flag. Who is ready for the next set of anti-flag burning bills and crybabies.....

[MadMonk]

Interesting developments. Perfect storm of events; an all ready hostile citizenry and growing social movement, fueled by mass unemployment and the worsening of the economy by the Corona crisis.

And all of this during election year with the most controversial president since (insert president of choice, I've heard Harding?).

And all the while the rest of the world is convulsing of similar trauma.

What a time to be alive!

[XogGyux]

What a time to be alive!

The question is for how much longer

I don't know. This looks pretty serious I think this will escalate further before it gets better.

[MadMonk]

'Mr President, don't go hide': China goads US over George Floyd protests

We might have to invent a new term; hyper-trolling.
A trolling of never seen before scale. Never have so many done so little and achive so much.

[XogGyux]

'Mr President, don't go hide': China goads US over George Floyd protests

We might have to invent a new term; hyper-trolling.
A trolling of never seen before scale. Never have so many done so little and achive so much.

LOL

I also found this.

WOW
A little bit of me died when I ended up agreeing with this person
She has been seeing through Trump's faccade for a while now, but geez... when you start losing people like this... you know you are in deep shit trouble.

Let's put things in perspective. Last week he was making fun of Biden for not going outside and staying on a basement
The fucking irony! You cannot make this shit up.
There is a God, and it is trolling the crap out of everyone

[Wulfschilde]

Interesting developments. Perfect storm of events; an all ready hostile citizenry and growing social movement, fueled by mass unemployment and the worsening of the economy by the Corona crisis.

And all of this during election year with the most controversial president since (insert president of choice, I've heard Harding?).

And all the while the rest of the world is convulsing of similar trauma.

What a time to be alive!

Right as the S&P 500 stabilized above 3,000 and the Nasdaq 100 over 9,500 too. Six months before an election. So curious

[SpecialOlympian]

OK yeah maybe these riots are bad. But you're going to look foolish once the president finally decides to get involved.

[SpecialOlympian]

Lmao Donald Trump is a weak little bitch who could barely stand up to the moderation staff of Twitter, and now he's too scared to deal with the nation burning down.

Everyone who supported him on this forum is also a weak little bitch who looked up to a bigger bitch as a source of inspiration. Eat my ass, you fucking weaklings.

[Wulfschilde]

Lmao Donald Trump is a weak little bitch who could barely stand up to the moderation staff of Twitter, and now he's too scared to deal with the nation burning down.

Everyone who supported him on this forum is also a weak little bitch who looked up to a bigger bitch as a source of inspiration. Eat my ass, you fucking weaklings.

Sounds ableist to me.

[XogGyux]

Right as the S&P 500 stabilized above 3,000 and the Nasdaq 100 over 9,500 too. Six months before an election. So curious

The stock is not the economy.
The fed have been pumping trillions of dollars.
Investors... actually really traders, because real investors do not make thousands upon thousands of trades like many of these people do are known for staying in the boiling pot for too long. They are more like gamblers than real investors to be honest.
Also, those indeces are heavily influenced by super large corporations that have not been hit that hard by the virus. Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, Google they make like 20%+ and all of them are doing solidly because of tele-working/etc, this makes up for a huge chunk of the hit that the rest of the smaller companies are taking.
When you put speculation, printing money and a bunch of irresponsible gamblers to "work" and then you let them run free for a while, you are setting yourself for failure.
I highly suspect we will see a much bigger crash than what we saw early on. Who knows, maybe the protests will be the spark for that. We will see.

[SpecialOlympian]

Racist Idiots: Trump will make people respect America again. Owned, libs.

*rioters fight with the secret service on the white house lawn*

[Wulfschilde]

The stock is not the economy.
The fed have been pumping trillions of dollars.
Investors... actually really traders, because real investors do not make thousands upon thousands of trades like many of these people do are known for staying in the boiling pot for too long. They are more like gamblers than real investors to be honest.
Also, those indeces are heavily influenced by super large corporations that have not been hit that hard by the virus. Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, Google they make like 20%+ and all of them are doing solidly because of tele-working/etc, this makes up for a huge chunk of the hit that the rest of the smaller companies are taking.
When you put speculation, printing money and a bunch of irresponsible gamblers to "work" and then you let them run free for a while, you are setting yourself for failure.
I highly suspect we will see a much bigger crash than what we saw early on. Who knows, maybe the protests will be the spark for that. We will see.

I realize that. But I also realize that there is a lot of context here. Regarding stocks, the common wisdom is that we have "support and resistance levels" that are strongest around psychological milestones. When one is broken through it changes its type from support to resistance or vice versa. The S&P 500 in particular broke through the 3,000 level, had a pull back, then kept going up. And then bam, George Floyd and mass rioting, maybe two days later.

Anyway, we will get another George Floyd some time in the next six months, unfortunately.

[SpecialOlympian]

At least Nero could play a fiddle. Trump is a basic bitch who can't even force his way out of a Chinese finger trap.

But seriously. If and when the President decides to get involved you're all going to look stupid for doubting him lolololololollolololololololololololo

[Godstud]

Excellent analogy @SpecialOlympian.