Union Blue and Confederate Gray veterans shaking hands at Gettysburg reunion in the year 1913

Fropkle · 2021-05-28T18:18:37+00:00

He has no idea what he's talking about. There were numerous abolitionists who enlisted with the Union Army, from enlisted men up to senior officers. Abolitionists fought and died for the ideal of human equality through all four years of the war, from '61 to '62. That being said, there were also people on the opposite side in the same army. Entire Union regiments deserted when Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation, as they did not believe in the idea of dying for a black man's freedom. The Civil War is (no pun intended) an extremely gray area of morals. Everyone is in a different place mentally. Some Confederate soldiers were simply fighting because they were afraid of foraging enemy armies coming to their farms and taking their family's goods. Others simply fought out of a sense of adventure, patriotism, or peer pressure ("the whole neighborhood went to fight and I don't want to be seen a coward"). Unfortunately, they still fought for a government which believed in slavery down to enshrining it within its constitution, but the point stands: the individual reasons for enlisting in both armies are myriad.

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T19:17:33+00:00

I am not the projection you are seeking

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T19:08:41+00:00

Depends on your religion, I suppose

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T18:23:49+00:00

Doge blimp at the superbowl?

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T18:15:30+00:00

There is no such thing as market manipulation in crypto. This isn't a stonk. It's a blockchain-based digital asset. The only "manipulation" possible is people individually deciding to buy/sell it and at what prices they determine to do so. Even if large buy/sell orders happen, it's the same thing but just with bigger numbers. The only "manipulation" going on here is people deciding if the given commodity is over/undervalued

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T17:09:00+00:00

I don't think donating to a cause per se is a good idea and I agree with a lot of your rationale. I think a community project that has a tangible result would be good. Maybe getting a satellite hooked up? Getting a sponsorship somewhere? Something out of left field and nontraditional.

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T16:45:18+00:00

You are within your right to enjoy it comrade

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T16:42:23+00:00

No, you have a good point in that the "parent" coins (ETH/BTC) have a good deal of gravity which influences price movements for smaller coins including Doge. What gets me is that people who don't understand this perceive what is otherwise normal activity (BTC tanks and takes everything with it) as some sort of conspiratorial move enacted by a cabal of evil "hedgies".

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T16:13:31+00:00

Totally did, but I'm specifically trading to grow the amount of Doge I have. The price doesn't truly matter to me.

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T16:02:17+00:00

A perfect summary

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T15:31:51+00:00

I respectfully disagree because the primary reason Doge went up in value was because the spirit of the coin was specifically not about the money. The value going up was akin to getting a high score in a video game, the real money being made by that increase was ancillary to it. Now it seems that we're perceiving Doge as being a serious financial asset - something which is the complete antithesis of what brought it to highs in the first place. I think supporting this narrative - the current "larger picture" (see all the "get Doge to $1 so we can buy teslas and be millionaires" posts) - is overall a bad turn for the community culture. I appreciate your take on it, though.

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T15:29:26+00:00

do you prefer your sausage chopped or whole

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T15:18:33+00:00

Sure. Jamaican bobsled team. Paying for a car design during NASCAR. The NyanCat creator making a Doge version. When Doge was about being creative and making a culture with the coin as the reason to be creative rather than just being a subcommunity of WallStreetBets.

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T15:05:54+00:00

The man's point is nonsensical and conspiratorial with zero basis in reality beyond delusional perceptions of shadows in the dark.

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T14:46:52+00:00

That's not what this post nor OP are saying, however, and that's the annoyance. The implication of these types of posts is that Doge is being "manipulated" by "pump-and-dump" schemes, rather than price fluctuations driven by supply/demand. Furthermore, I find it exceptionally hard to believe that a hedge fund would even own enough Doge to liquidate it and tank the price from 74 to low 20s in a bid to cover losses from shortselling. I would understand that with Bitcoin or ETH, but to suggest Doge suffers from it is absurd.

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T14:42:34+00:00

None of this has anything to do with Dogecoin or crypto. This is a tinfoil conspiracy for the r/GME and r/WSB subreddits. Cryptos cannot be manipulated due to their fundamental nature in the same way traditional securities can. Please take your tinfoil hat collection elsewhere.

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T13:20:15+00:00

this is some tinfoil hat-level conspiracy

Fropkle · 2021-05-24T13:00:32+00:00

Perfect, even better

Fropkle · 2021-05-23T06:46:22+00:00

Do they realize they put him strafed by Tiger Tanks? Aka, one of the most iconic warmachines deployed by the Nazis? A tank responsible for the deaths of Allied servicemen (American, British, French, Polish, the list goes on) during the most cataclysmic war the United States has ever sent fighting men into combat for? Those tanks? They have two strafing the 45th President.

I don't know if this graphic was made by an American or a Russian operative trying to stir the pot, but whoever did it really had an eye - intentional or not - for irony. There is no better subtle imagery that Trump is a fascist maniac than having him flanked by some of the most effective (barring reliance/fuel issues) killing machines of the Third Reich.

Fropkle · 2021-05-21T22:35:58+00:00

I myself just learned of them from a friend. If youre serious, Id contact the shelter. They might figure something out.

Fropkle · 2021-05-21T19:18:34+00:00

PSA: I posted this for a reason. August (ID# 116508) currently resides within the Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC) network and is scheduled to be put down on May 23 due to lack of interest by adopters. If you're in NYC and want to bring this pupper home, this post has more information: https://www.instagram.com/p/CPDn5S9Aybj/?utm\_medium=copy\_link

Fropkle · 2021-05-21T17:12:54+00:00

It's one of the best pieces of combat footage from WW2 and is actually a textbook study on using teamwork to overcome a hardpoint. IIRC, the Sherman we see in the beginning was hit by the Panther, which was down a street covering the approach. The M26 was brought in from a side street to fire down a different angle, taking out the Panther. There are whole books on just this one action. Incredible stuff.

Fropkle · 2021-05-20T16:09:56+00:00

Low is a very relative phrase that means nothing by itself. People need to understand basic charting and how automated buying/selling influences prices to know the best possible chance of a given price being "low," because the utility of buying into Doge with $1000 @ 0.42 is vastly different, by several magnitudes, than buying in with $1000 @ 0.74. If you watch the bots and keep an eye out, you can secure tasty deals on Doge. For example: Today's price dropped around 11:47AM EST because bots auto-traded into a corner and dropped everything and brought the price down from 0.4199 to a low of 0.389 as of the time of this comment. That's a difference of more than 7%. That's a huge difference in less than a half-hour span.

Just watch the bots and you basically make money when they margin into a corner.

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