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28 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Homeowners were oversold by realtors & banks, hoodwinked into thinking they qualified for loans they weren't qualified for with rubber-stamp approval processes obfuscated by opaque "credit scores" and ultimately blamed for "living beyond their means" when CDOs & MBSes tanked.
Banks got bailed out as a result. Wall Street execs got bonuses. Nobody got punished for one of the largest financial crimes perpetrated on a global scale. But workers lost pensions & retirement funds. Evictions spiked. And borrowers were blamed.
And time and time again the capitalist class insisted it was the natural state of things because they should have "understood the risks."

Now when a notoriously risky short position is obliterated by other investors, the entire financial apparatus is scrambling to stop it.
We're seeing executives, regulators, investors and media talking heads shriek in unison that it's unfair what's happening to a hedge fund that didn't consider the risk. That it lived beyond its means.
Now the same elite class that championed bailouts for the wealthy when working people suffered in 08 are demanding the system come to a screeching halt because the wealthy might suffer while outsiders benefit.

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27 Jan
this is extremely funny & the inevitable aftermath will be the country's wealthy elite—the same people who didn't give a shit as millions of people got fucked over in 08—clamoring for more safeguards on the market to prevent this from happening again bc this time it affects them
we're about to see a chorus of financiers, wall st ghouls and likely some members of congress feign outrage that our market, our sweet, precious market, was manipulated (!) by a bunch of redditors! nevermind that in 08 the people who manipulated the system got fucking BAILOUTS!
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Who does this protect?
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Who is this serving?

Who is this protecting?
This is what a police state looks like
This Is A Police State 3

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holy shit

a kid asked pete if he will help take big money out of politics and stop having closed-door fundraisers with billionaires

pete's response?

a curt "no"

maybe if the kid was able to donate the individual max pete would have given him more time

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The House is having a hearing on white supremacy and the Republicans invited Candace Owens who used her time to say it isn't actually an issue, that it wouldn't even rank in her top 100 issues and that the real issue is black-on-black crime & lack of masculinity in men.
Jim Jordan just came to the white supremacy hearing late and with his time gave Candace Owens the floor.

This is what she said.

"Made-up professor."

@kathleen_belew has a Ph. D. from Yale.

Candace Owens is a talking head.
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You literally published a video compilation of people ramming their cars into protesters with “Move Bitch” by Ludacris in the background
The Daily Caller chiming in today is rich

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