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going to preface this with, don't worry about my immediate health or anything. i am not having a psychotic episode of anything like that, i am 100% sober...and...that's honestly the scariest part for me.

there is a message that finally got through to me, woke me up (wait, motherfucker...is that where "woke" comes from?!?!?), something I'v been aware of for a long time now i think, but it got suppressed down for...10 goddamn years... for whatever reason, until now.

now that I'm aware of it, I see it damn near everywhere, almost every majorly acclaimed movie, song, book, poem, fucking everything...

and it's not like this is some short-term problem either, it's not going away when trump dies, it's not even going away if trump dies and the establishment regains control (i have my doubts they can pull this off).

it's the same goddamn cycle over and over (with slight variations), boom followed by completely deliberate bust, one privacy-overreach followed by another, the same playbook used over and over. and occasionally either end is some random organic act-of-god, which just works to obfuscate the intentional acts.

it's so large and all encompassing you can't even be sure which parts are apart of it and which are just...people still asleep just going about their lives.

and now, because this world seems to be ran by a bunch of fucking psychopaths, I'm even more paranoid sober than when I was having a actual mental breakdown

because how the fuck do I trust anyone now?

how do i seperate those that know from those that don't?

psychopathic assholes from regular assholes?

friend from foe?

hell, how the hell do Ieven confirm that this is real, I know that everyone in my own immediate family is stuck in these little arithmetic bubbles too so i can't bring it up with them, if i tried they would probably be worried I'm going crazy.

and because of past-me's mistakes over the years I have no irl friends whatsoever to talk with either, so i guess all I have left is to send this out onto the internet and hope for the best?

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[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (18 children)

ph yeah, I'm not worried about $ anymore...I think that's part of why this all came together for me tbh.

been messing with that actively for last year/year and half, very conservatively, and someone finally took pity on me I guess, and let me on the open-secret about the various speculation markets we monkeys seem so fascinated in.

I proceeded to make more in the last 2 months than I could working my day job for entire year (not counting OT), not worrying about bills/rent frees up a lot of thought-time I guess.....and this wasnt some "first ones free" luck shit either, 100% certain of the outcome (well 99%, with hedge for if line turned against me)

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (15 children)

I'm insanely curious, what was the open secret that your benefactor taught you that led to such success?

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (14 children)

idfk, just a book that (in my eyes, considering it's age and how well it still applies to today) showed beyond any shadow of a doubt the whole thing really is bullshit.

moreso than any movie/drama saying the same thing which I'd probably seen a dozen times over the years, a dusty century old book laying it all out there removed any doubt whatsoever for me. especially when cross-examined to peculiar differences I noticed comparing US financial markets to others around the world (which generally favor stability), and who ultimately benefits most from those peculiarities.

which ultimately means that it isnt gambling/speculation...if you utilize proper risk management and know (all of) the rules to whatever imaginary line your betting on, whose moving what, what they want, and how you best make $ off their $

until, eventually, your port is large enough that your the one actually moving things. at which point certain strategies just don't scale up as well as others (recall seeing a Buffet interview saying as much to some reporter).

Just...idk...the flippant way these motherfuckers fuck with the economy, all to just make their lines go up. and how deeply entwined that is/has been with the US government, going back a good...100-125 years atleast. like how government farming subsidies have been used to rig various agricultural futures markets...with the food just being destroyed anyway after uncle sam pays for it, all to "keep prices stable" while americans are starving.

extrapolate this out to all the other shit we've turned into speculation, like the homeless crisis and housing speculation. various drug/healthcare problems and our fucked up healthcare/pharma industry, all sorts of appalling health/safety regulations, nonexistent labor protections etc. etc.

and behind every single one of those issues...ultimately just some greedy motherfucker trying to make their lines up go

shit is fucked

i'm not completely batshit crazy, I dont really believe (yet) that there is some uninterrupted conspiracy chain going all the way back to fucking moses or something, just that we've seemingly built our economy around one generation of psychopaths breeding another to replace themselves, in some fucked up game of fake-oneupmanship.

and all thats before you take into consideration Trump and Co. (and more stressful to me, the fundamentalists behind them, which got Nixon, Reagan, both Bush's elected...they've been very successful in establishing the christofacist paradise they want so badly, these last couple decades. there is a direct line of connection between the people behind the Moral/Silent Majority shit and P2025)

[–] bright_side_@piefed.world 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Am also interested in the book, dm me if you don't want to write it publicly

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 days ago

Hey there, fellow Livermoore fan.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

the tldr is you have to follow the fundamentals of investing AND just bet against humanity. The real ROI starts when the human rights and environmental regulations stop.

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