Imagine losing a 6 figure salary job and going to jail over a fucking smoothie.

Dude was "wealth management advisor" with Merrill Lynch, and now he's arrested.😂😂 Senior vice president?
Stick a fork in him, because this MF is done.

Martin Luther King Jr. on capitalism, socialism and inequality in America.

God fucking damn it America.
The US just left its biometric database behind in Afghanistan, with information on every Afghan who worked with and cooperated with the US over the past 20 years.

This is the Kurds all over again.

1/ The Taliban's Al Isha unit is using US-made hand-held scanners to tap into a massive US-built biometric database and positively identify any person who helped the NATO allies or worked with Indian intelligence.

2/

My timeline seems a little serious/depressing tonight.
So here's a Minimum wage/Corporate tears meme dump

After a certain size, corporations just become evil.

Here's a thread of a handful of evil shit some of the West's biggest companies have done.

The United Fruit Company massacred striking workers and backed several coups in Latin America.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fr… Coca-Cola hired paramilitaries to intimated and kill trade union leaders in Columbia.
theguardian.com/media/2003/jul…

Fascism has always hidden behind patriotism and popular sentiment.

"We love country, flag, and God, and we'll fight to protect it!"

"We're marching for our rights!"

"We're marching to defend freedom!"

"We're marching against pedophiles!"

"We're marching for our children!"

https://twitter.com/BFI/status/933666444922912769

It's a way to garner support, and stifle critics.

After all, who would be against a march to protect children? Or a march against pedophiles?

It's an easy way to demonize your opponents and turn THEM into the enemy.

It's a tactic that's been used for a hundreds years.

A thread on poverty and child poverty:

The US claims only 10.5% of it's citizens live in poverty.

How is it so low?

It isn't.
The federal threshold for poverty is kept artificially low to make politicians look good and pretend poverty isn't a major issue.

1/9 The threshold is only $12,880.
If you make $12,881, you are officially NOT poor.

For child poverty If your family earns A COMBINED US$21,960/year, that child is technically NOT poor.

Even with the government trying to minimize the figures, 1 in 7 kids are STILL in poverty.

2/9

So what will be the aftermath of this GME event?

These are simply my guesses, I don't actually know.

Wallstreet will likely push for licenses being necessary to trade, or put more limits on how many trades you can make, or some other way to screw the average person trading. 1/ FYI, you can only make 4 trades in a day, but if you have more than $25,000 in your account you can make as many as you want.

The system is rigged against the poor, and weighted heavily in favour of the rich. 2/

Ok, since a lot of people seem confused, I'll explain what's going on with GME.

Brace yourselves. This is gonna be a long thread. This is a once in a lifetime historical event. It's insane.

At least 1 hedgefund has gone bankrupt, thanks to a group of average joes on Reddit. By the end of the week, there will be a line of bankruptcies.

So let's start at the beginning: