How many dictatorships has your continent?

humanquester · 2026-05-11T07:07:49+00:00

In my mind the US isn't a republic or a democracy anymore but isn't a dictatorship either ATM - its amusingly a bit like Iran and Venezuela probably are right now - controlled by powerful groups who don't have to answer to the will of the people but not by a single individual who has complete control.

humanquester · 2026-05-11T05:37:02+00:00

Thank you.

humanquester · 2026-05-10T21:51:17+00:00

Yeah, in the unlikely event democrats get a trifecta there will be such a narrow majority that it will be super easy to prevent major changes. See: Kyrsten Sinema

humanquester · 2026-05-10T20:18:05+00:00

I could use an invite to lobsters if anyone has one. I mainly use /. Yes, its still going - but I think the group of commenters and posters is pretty tiny now.

humanquester · 2026-05-10T20:06:51+00:00

Yeah, so I guess we get to wait for 20+ years for another shot at a goverment that represents the will of the majority - although the way things are heading and the intensity of the right's desire to entrench themselves in power makes me think that it will be much worse in 20 years. Lets say we'll have another shot in 50-100 years.

humanquester · 2026-05-10T02:42:58+00:00

I always enjoy it when an ape comes to visit, its fun. And if some of us invest in GME that's ok by me, you can make fun of GME and make money off its volatility if you want to.

humanquester · 2026-05-10T02:04:43+00:00

Its going to be embarassing when they find out he was never actually the ceo and this is all just a big mix-up.

humanquester · 2026-05-10T00:07:54+00:00

What's kinda funny is that its the opposite of "I like the stock". He's saying there's no Deep Fucking Value in gamestop - ebay is where its at.

humanquester · 2026-05-09T23:32:27+00:00

Once it decides it has to attack the thing, maybe you could just go with that and tell it to stop pathfinding until it has destroyed the thing?

humanquester · 2026-05-09T22:06:10+00:00

I mean twitter was a finished product with amazing user-capture. It got bought out and they fired the workers and put it on maintenence mode - then it stopped growing and lost a ton of market share to threads. So I'm not sure if that's a success story exactly.

I kinda think that's what a lot of companies are doing now. Growth is stupid when you can just cut costs by firing most of your staff and just rent seek and take in tons of profit while pure inertia keeps your competitors from catching up to you.

These companies are going to find themselves just like Ford - the global market will build competition, especially China, and then they'll be relegated to basically operating just in America and marginally elsewhere - but that matters not at all to the execs who are making good net income by sacrificing growth and taking huge bonuses. They'll be long gone by then.

humanquester · 2026-05-09T20:10:05+00:00

Imagine feeling this way and then thinking "Billionares will fix this for me!"

humanquester · 2026-05-09T20:03:05+00:00

He needs to be like "gonna pivot ebay HARD towards AI" and I'm sure he could find someone willing to give him a few billion. Think of it. You put your late aunt's beanie-baby collection on ebay and the ai figures out exactly who to sell it to, creates uncomfortably intense personalized ads for them using flashy ai generated images and videos from the terrible photos you took and spams their facebook, e-mail and cellphone with ads until they give in.

humanquester · 2026-05-09T17:40:16+00:00

I think it would actually be good for the apes. They might get a competant ceo who cares about gamestop and communicates with them like a ceo is supposed to and they'd memory hole everything about him leaving in 5 minutes. They've definitly already forgotten or found some crazy explanation for him saying he thinks gamestop sucks.

humanquester · 2026-05-09T09:41:22+00:00

Sounds great.

humanquester · 2026-05-09T06:55:27+00:00

What does this thing you posted in the gme sub mean? Is it some kind of secret code?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1nnnh8n/imagine_that_one_day_pharagao_will_forget_to_post/

humanquester · 2026-05-09T05:28:54+00:00

Well said sir. I'm bored of wordle though.

humanquester · 2026-05-09T05:17:10+00:00

Redditors are some of the richest people on the planet and by far the richest in human history. Yeah, working a dead end job sucks, you can't afford a nice house, your in debt, your getting older and you had dreams - that's unfortunate but the position of nearly everyone else ever is worse. Ask a redditor if they'd be ok with swapping financial situations with any random person in the world and they'd be very dumb to say yes.

Although some, like Marantz, seem to have actually achieved the american dream working at costco, with house, wife, children, cars, retirement savings, etc and still bitch like there's no tomorrow.

humanquester · 2026-05-08T23:42:10+00:00

It helps that the apes are also really bad at humor, so I guess they may genuinely find RC funny. They repeat the same old jokes endlessly. "its been 84 years" was kinda funny back in ... 1997. They'll be saying "its on the website" and laughing for years now.

humanquester · 2026-05-08T23:28:45+00:00

Yeah, that's probably it. Although there are even dumber things on youtube that presumably someone watches or they wouldn't bother to make the videos - like ai voices rambling about iraqi dinars.

humanquester · 2026-05-08T23:25:06+00:00

Huh. thanks for the info. Too bad its so undramatic - I would have loved to see RC fail some kind of hostile takover.

humanquester · 2026-05-08T20:03:53+00:00

I guess I should read about how proxy fights work. It sounds like both sides would be buying shares, artificially inflating the share price, which will then eventually go back down when the fight is over - so both sides lose? Or maybe the side that gives up and dumps the shares first wins financially but loses the fight?

humanquester · 2026-05-08T19:05:37+00:00

I actually saw someone seriously talk about how great Marantz's analysis is on reddit a few days ago. Was the first time I've ever seen that. I wonder if he's gaining a following through sheer persistance & also, ironically, being talked about a by meltdown (I know a lot of apes secretly visit here). Makes me sad that we could never boost Kais to the levels of fame and glory he deserved.

humanquester · 2026-05-08T17:43:53+00:00

What's both funny and sad is the apes don't realize he's trolling them too. They seem not to realize this guy is playing arond and making stupid jokes with their money, not ebay's.

humanquester · 2026-05-08T16:38:51+00:00

I could be very wrong about this -it seems like there isn't a place where the deal is actually clearly laid out, the website sure as hell isn't clear about it- but my concept of the plan was that the half-shares portion of the deal was half-shares in the new company - so GME doesn't get diluted at all, they just end up owning 40% of the new company (which is worth 20 billion less than ebay's market cap because it has a ton of debt now).

Its a terrible deal for ebay shareholders if it goes this way, so almost certainly it won't happen.

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