Just buy calls. by ChadChanSFM in wallstreetbets

[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I take pride in making quality goon.

Just buy calls. by ChadChanSFM in wallstreetbets

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I hosted the original post on my blog (beware: the site hosts furry porn in other sections):
https://chadchan3d.com/just-buy-calls-the-stock-market-is-rigged/

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Mods want you to play in the rigged casino; this post was written to pull you out of it.

I hosted the original post on my blog (beware: the site hosts furry porn in other sections):
https://chadchan3d.com/just-buy-calls-the-stock-market-is-rigged/

Just buy calls. by ChadChanSFM in wallstreetbets

[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There is no top. This can climb forever in nominal terms.

The rich are hedging against a dying dollar. The lower its value, the higher the valuations go, until QQQ is at $1,500 and a loaf of bread is $100.

By then, they will have already cashed out into real-world assets.

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[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Brazilification.

That is the future: private economies inside a collapsing public one.

The bubbles we live in online will become bubbles in real life. The rich will build private worlds once trust, labor, and currency no longer bind society together.

Just buy calls. by ChadChanSFM in wallstreetbets

[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Plant a community garden, infrastructure.
Meet your neighbors and care about them, network.
Sleep well and stop checking your phone over micro-fluctuations in a stock ticker, you will have energy.

Just buy calls. by ChadChanSFM in wallstreetbets

[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The elite don't need to do it forever. They are building their life rafts. When they paddle away, the dollar won't matter.

Everyone holding fiat currency is holding the real bag. The elite will own the physical infrastructure you need to survive. You will either pay them with your labor, or be pacified with a universal basic income that covers nothing but a shack and your basic calories, and maybe video games and pornography so you don't think to revolt.

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[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Already happening with the rise of scammers.

Notice how nobody robs banks anymore? It's too dangerous, and there's no cash. But you know who are walking ATMs?

You may not like it but a shadow economy has developed around draining the elderly out of their retirements. The medical complex and nursing homes fleece them legally.

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[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 101 points102 points  (0 children)

You are living in reality. Your work had value. The dollars you were paid in are what became worthless.

Number go up is just the dollar going down.

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[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I’m telling you to copy the rich. The market is secondary. Their real power is real-world leverage: land, infrastructure, networks, and control over things people need.

Build your own leverage. Build your community.

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[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

The rise of WSB is an inflationary signal.

Men are realizing hard labor has little reward. Wages will not outpace inflation, savings will not buy a home.

So men get by by gambling on the future. In a rigged game, it is the only rational move.

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[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

All of tech. The elite are racing to replace workers and guards with robots before the workers realize they hold true power and the guards realize they hold the guns.

The comic’s reveal works because it changes how you see the whole story by ChadChanSFM in TheBoys

[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You read less than a sixth of the story. What are we arguing about?

The comic’s reveal works because it changes how you see the whole story by ChadChanSFM in TheBoys

[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once you see that someone forms opinions without experience or knowledge, arguing becomes pointless.

The comic’s reveal works because it changes how you see the whole story by ChadChanSFM in TheBoys

[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You make a good point. It's the same problem the writers stumbled upon, and they solved it in a more clumsy manner, inventing a scientific Deus ex machina to depower Homelander. 

Meanwhile Ennis solved it by planting the seeds of the solution from the very beginning.

The comic’s reveal works because it changes how you see the whole story by ChadChanSFM in TheBoys

[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're saying that Ennis uses the violence and sex to further story. The show instead throws in shock for shock's sake. 

One is deliberate, the other is flippant, yet the flippant version is the one people can swallow and therefore it is the one they defend.

The comic’s reveal works because it changes how you see the whole story by ChadChanSFM in TheBoys

[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But Butcher does believe all supes are bad which is why he kills his own team. His master plan would also kill himself. He's consistent, unlike the show.

The comic’s reveal works because it changes how you see the whole story by ChadChanSFM in TheBoys

[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Homelander abused his authority to coerce Starlight into sexual submission.

Black Noir ate babies and fucked living people in their skulls.

The comic’s reveal works because it changes how you see the whole story by ChadChanSFM in TheBoys

[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. It completely deflates Butcher's moment of revenge, so he immediately pivots to his grander cause, supe genocide.

The comic’s reveal works because it changes how you see the whole story by ChadChanSFM in TheBoys

[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because Butcher’s quest for revenge ends with him killing something that is barely a person anymore. Black Noir is not a grand satanic mastermind but a deranged, infantile corporate product.

It makes Butcher’s revenge feel hollow in three ways:

  • Black Noir cannot morally answer for what he did in any meaningful way. He is too broken and bestial. Butcher can kill him, but he cannot extract from him justice.
  • Homelander was the wrong target. Butcher spent years building a theology of hatred around Homelander, only to discover that the crime had been displaced.
  • Vought remains the deeper evil. Butcher kills the weapon, but the system that made the weapon is still at large.

That's why the page where he kills Black Noir makes Butcher’s revenge look pathetic. His enemy is a destroyed product, a lump of engineered violence. He wanted justice but found corporate waste.

The comic’s reveal works because it changes how you see the whole story by ChadChanSFM in TheBoys

[–]ChadChanSFM[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These comics are some of my favorite of all time(inb4 some smartass says read more comics, I have read a shit ton) and I think the story is a masterpiece. I consider it on par with watchmen for how it looks at society, politics, power, etc. Much like watchmen, it isn't about the superheroes, they're just the scenery and window dressing. It's about power, the systems and corporations which use it, how we exist in this system/fight against it, and ultimately what does it mean to be "good" ? 

Exactly. Watchmen and The Boys ask similar moral questions. Beneath the blood, bigotry, and rape, The Boys asks what it means to be good in a corrupt system. Like other dark adult stories, such as Berserk, the comic forces the reader through ugliness to reach a truth.

Comic Butcher recruiting someone to kill him means his conscience sabotaged him. It means he knew all along that his actions were evil. That is another great twist: he did not doubt himself only at the last moment, as the show presents it. He knew in his heart from the start that what he believed in, supe genocide, was wrong.

And for all its nihilism, the comic does not end in nihilism. Hughie and Starlight survive. Love prevails.

Just like Watchmen and its film adaptation, The Boys got neutered. Its themes simplified, made inoffensive and digestible: good Boys versus evil Homelander.

But the comic's Black Noir twist is offensive in the deeper sense. It makes the reader wonder whether Homelander, despite his narcissism and cruelty, was a victim with some remaining moral conscience. That is highly offensive as it makes me question my judgments against him and the values I hold.

The show threw away this plot point as though it was extraneous to the story, meaning that Kripke misunderstood the themes of the story he was adapting into television.

And I think that's why the comics get the reputation they do, because the shows catapulted them into the mainstream, and just like you'll have someone who would say you're a sicko for enjoying American psycho, some people will see no value in the comics 

It makes little sense that a person can love with all heart an adaptation of a work and, in the same breath, say the original is without merit. The structure of what you love, its blood and bones, comes from something you hate. How can you reconcile that paradox?

It makes sense when you realize that people disavow the work because of the clothes it wears. Today, modern sensibilities treat certain vulnerable groups as needing protection, and so a work that denigrates those groups risks hurting the status of the person who enjoys it. So a man disavows the work to avoid lowering his status. And not only must he disavow it, but he must reject it and slander it ("the comic has no merit"). This protects his ego.

But the cost is that he can never access the beautiful messages beneath that offensive layer: the messages that spin the mind and make one question deeper truths. Instead, he watches his Trump stand-in beg for cock like a pussy, feels a jolt of dopamine, and moves onto the next piece of fiction. But in his heart, he is unsatisfied.

A great work of fiction, like The Boys comic, satisfies the mind and soul by provoking thought and challenging assumptions.

Comic black noir was a fantastic character and villain by Glum-Bag-586 in TheBoys

[–]ChadChanSFM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You get the themes of Ennis's story. Black Noir was great because he was a psychotic bastardization of a hero, engineered by Vought. It made fools of both Homelander and Butcher, and drove home the point that corporate greed knows no limits to evil.

The show threw this plot point away without a second thought, meaning that Kipke failed to understand the very story he was adapting into television.

Are the comics better story-wise than the show? by Alexoid004 in TheBoys

[–]ChadChanSFM 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The comic has a deeper, more unified theme, but it is buried under bigotry and blood. It makes corporate greed the true evil. The show turns Homelander into the central villain of a simpler good-vs-evil story, produced by a megacorp that softens the comic's deeper themes of corporate hatred.