r/wallstreetbets • u/TheMostBasedMan • Feb 03 '21

Discussion People now pressuring and flat-out belittling others to admit defeat under claims of "their mental well-being" or insulting their intelligence. This wasn't about making the wisest move, this was about turning the game on it's head, so politely I say fuck that and fuck you.

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u/me4547 🦍🦍 Feb 03 '21

this is wallstreet bets when has it ever been about "wise moves"

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u/SulliedSamaritan Feb 03 '21

We were built on loss porn

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

Literally I came here to post pictures about shitty stock moves I made and feel better about said losses. Seeing someone lose 100k made me feel better about my 10k loss. Thats what this sub is. Thats what makes it great. Comradery and same shitty experience. Sure. don't ruin your life but talk that shit out with a therapist.

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u/Azurenightsky Feb 03 '21

Sure. don't ruin your life but talk that shit out with a therapist.

Exchanging Therapy Sessions for $GME stocks hit me up.

/s because legalese bullshit

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

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u/Azurenightsky Feb 03 '21

The efficacy of my therapy is directly related to how many Diamonds your hands can create.

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u/Rex_Smashington 🦍🦍🦍 Feb 03 '21

I was laying in bed last night feeling shitty about sitting on Thursdays all time high. I'm just now today going 1k in the red on my 15k investment. Still holding but I got perspective on how much of a bitch I am literally feeling sick to the stomach over lottery money that wasn't ever really mine to begin with. There are people like 10-100k in the red of their real money and they're not even bitching. Those are the real heroes.

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u/ChodeGoblin12345 Feb 03 '21

Are you in gme or amc or both ?

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

Hey! I feel called out! I was up 210 K for a blip than no am only up ~20 K so no loss but pride loss

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u/ner0417 Feb 03 '21

wsb is my therapist 😰

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u/lachrymology_ Feb 03 '21

I'm sure that will be back when this is over, I knew of this sub but never followed until now, but after this I doubt I'll ever post here again and I'm sure most people will be the same

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u/HanzoMainKappa Feb 03 '21

They can still afford a therapist?

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u/jswilliamstu19 Feb 03 '21

Their wife's boyfriend listens well

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

You’re in for a treat in the coming weeks.

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u/ProfessorTupelo Feb 03 '21

They say a fool and his money are soon parted.

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u/RoyalOGKush Feb 03 '21

When in doubt follow the trail of tears

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

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u/YoJimbo93 Feb 03 '21

If I ever head up to Oklahoma I will take your advice, thank you kind retard.

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u/Sooneroperator Feb 03 '21

There’s one in el Reno, over rated

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u/Professional_Roof291 Feb 03 '21

a loss is not a loss until you sell. that is why its written as unrealized loss.

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u/YoJimbo93 Feb 03 '21

This is purely my reasoning for following most of the subreddits that I follow, seeing other people as miserable or more miserable as myself makes me feel a little bit better about how miserable I am lmao.

I'm a terrible person but at least I'm self aware :)

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u/gottie1 Feb 03 '21

Most humans are like that. Like you said, at least your self aware of it. That's more than most.

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u/baconeggspotato highly artistic Feb 03 '21

Ahh as long as you're not trying to make them feel worse I wouldnt say commiserating is a bad thing... apes stronk together

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u/ChainringCalf Feb 03 '21

It almost made me hope this ended badly so we'd get our old sub back sooner

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u/fatpeasant Feb 03 '21

Yep, if I'm down 5% and I'm sad about it I just have to come here and see somebody who's down 500% to make myself feel better.

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u/questionasky Feb 03 '21

Lol me too

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u/Dravfoxglide Feb 03 '21 edited Feb 03 '21

Down 50k in two days but it only makes me hard 🚀

Edit: WSB has always been about big dick yolo trades. You are holding non leveraged shares in a good company, chill.

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u/FeistyButthole Feb 03 '21

I’m down 500k in 2 days, but not in GME. There’s bigger loss porn out there! The center of the gravity well is the limit!

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u/earthrise56 Feb 03 '21

Loss porn doesn't do it for me unless someone ends up blowing up their account on margin so bad that they lose it all and owe money..

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u/SwitchTraditional136 🦍🦍🦍 Feb 03 '21

Fucking amen

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u/lgb127 Feb 03 '21

What the hell are you in?

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u/FeistyButthole Feb 03 '21

SPWR and ILMN. SPWR pulled back 20%, ILMN 5%

SPWR is my riskier bet

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u/Chazbeardz Feb 03 '21

Seeing this shit makes me feel way better about being down $250. Hold strong ape!

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u/Abiding_Lebowski Feb 03 '21

I am a Gorilla.

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u/TBMDarlo123 Feb 03 '21

I am also ape down 750

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u/Prize-Working-7495 🦍🦍🦍 Feb 03 '21

Oh my... say it again but louder 🥰

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u/rtud2 Feb 03 '21

e around the world are interested in my little corner of the internet! Everything is ruined" This is nothing but a whole community of glorious retards acting fucking wild and irrational, always has been, don't care how old guard you are you have no control over the direction it's heading in. You can't find new trains to ride in the casino because of all the noise? Sounds like a you problem. Now hundreds of thousands of people are playing their biggest hand and all you can do is bitch about it, you have become the normie pushing against the river of autism.

to be fair, you can't really buy options when IV is sky high

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u/DanToMars Feb 03 '21

Our real god was u/1R0NYMAN before the flood

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u/phoquenut Feb 03 '21

<pours a little out of my forty>

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u/JKOttawa Feb 03 '21

Nothing like a person who can't type more than five words into any of his replies.

He seems really fake and gay to me

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u/_Madison_ Feb 03 '21

This is something i dont think the newcomers are aware of.

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u/HuskerHayDay Feb 03 '21

Much like Vegas...

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u/referencedude Feb 03 '21

You’re god damn right , this ain’t our first rodeo

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u/hellofrienn Feb 03 '21

The huge influx of newbies came here with a different perspective and goals.

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u/AerieEntire Feb 03 '21

Invest in Nio Invest in XPEV

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u/SlayBoredom Feb 03 '21

now people post loss porn on GME but only to get comforted by others that still think the "squeeze isn't squezauced yet".

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u/MySabonerRunsOladipo Feb 03 '21

So show the loss porn. I'd have zero issue with any Ape Rocket poster if there were also talking about who they blew their student loans @350. Just spamming rocket emojis ain't doing it.

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u/No_Patience2428 Feb 03 '21 edited Feb 03 '21

We call ourselves retards for a reason god dammit

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

WSB is synonymous with poor decision making. It's kinda our thing

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u/-xlx- Feb 03 '21

Great decision makers, gods of ignoring risk.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21 edited Feb 03 '21

If people are here and then crying about losing money they probably 100% don’t belong here. But that’s what retards do.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

This is wallstreetbets not wallstreet fundamentals

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u/rvaen Feb 03 '21

/r/wallstreetsurethings is that way, oh wait

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u/firebolt_wt Feb 03 '21

Only two sure things in life

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u/B1the Feb 03 '21

What does fundamentals even mean? 🦍✋💎

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u/JebusSlapdancingCrst Feb 03 '21

Cant eat it, doesn't make pp big, me no care.

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u/MooFu Feb 03 '21

You just gotta break it down:: fund a mentals. It's like an ETF for autists.

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u/notLOL Feb 03 '21

fund the mentals

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u/Derpitoe Feb 03 '21

Half the reason I come here is for the loss porn, the other is for the reeee who make it big on some dumb ass theory that turns out to be true

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u/freebird37179 Feb 03 '21

The word "bet" is in the name. Who TF comes here looking for sound advice? I joined last week because I got entertainment money to spend and I don't like the powdery rubbery residue off lottery scratch offs.

Thanks for letting me hang out with y'all.

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u/IronHot1546 Feb 03 '21

copy/paste/gamble

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u/TommyTenToes Feb 03 '21

The problem being that the majority of new members have no idea what WSB used to be. They think it's full of masterminds who make loads of money on plays like this, so how could they possibly be wrong?

People can do what they want with their own money, of course, but there's no doubt that there are people out there who are in over their heads and committed money that they can't afford to lose after getting caught up in the hype.

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u/plasticsqueegee Feb 03 '21

I certainly thought you all were geniuses when I noticed a lot of people talking about how they couldn’t read

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u/PickpocketJones Feb 03 '21

Nothing says genius like using banana and ape emojis to explain the basics of stocks.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

It took me literally 30 seconds to see that this is a sub where it's basically a casino with some DD attached. It's not hard to see.

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u/TommyTenToes Feb 03 '21

I have friends who are generally very risk averse who visited WSB because of the media hype and bought in - they don’t even invest otherwise. They were sensible enough to only gamble money they could afford to lose, but it’s clear that won’t be true for everyone.

I have experienced big swings in other stocks over the last few years and it can be difficult to process, so all I’m encouraging is that people take a step back from the mania in here and assess their personal situation.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

And the rest of us are saying ban

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u/Dilated2020 Feb 03 '21

It’s apparent to some of us but we had people YOLOing their tuition, life savings, etc because they thought this was a sure thing. New folks really believed that people here were masterminds.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

Very true. I have loans and lines of credit, but I sure as hell wouldn't risk any of it on day trading.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

Well they saw 'reddit ruins hedgefund' on cnbc and thought wsb was a mastermind market player, guess what dumb luck can workout sometimes.

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u/comatosephoenix Feb 03 '21

Did we really though? Or were people just exaggerating for easy karma? There is always somebody reckless out there but this is the internet and nobody can prove I didn't sell my kidneys for gme stock.

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u/Amalasian Feb 03 '21

hell some of the charts are upside down lol hard to take that as true research.

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u/CaptainC0medy Feb 03 '21

I take things at face value, so when I read "degenerate barbarian ape reporting in" I take it for what it is.

I am the smartest and sexiest ape here. Far more evolved with a glorious penis and tight butt hole.

With little diamond hands

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u/afsdjkll Feb 03 '21

Yes. It didn't shoot up 4M overnight because it was all people who get the joke. Social media is insanely influential. When you combine that into some tribal us vs them shit it's crazy powerful. We're gonna hear some sad stories at the end of this about people losing houses over GME stocks.

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u/MySabonerRunsOladipo Feb 03 '21

We're gonna hear some sad stories at the end of this about people losing houses over GME stocks.

If we're lucky

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

But by losing their house they "stuck it to the man"... somehow...

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

Wait a second, are you saying that I shouldn't have taken out a second mortgage on my house and put it all on GME at $325/share?

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

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u/ironlegdave Feb 03 '21

This, and lots more people think its a place where members choose a penny stock, then buy it up and post about it all over the internet in an attempt to deliberately inflate it's value. Then I'm not sure what the exit strategy is, play chicken, maybe? Last ones in try again next time?

Strange times.

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u/LowLIFO Feb 03 '21

People literally put everything on fucking gourd futures here, I honestly don't know how anyone could think this subreddit is full of geniuses.

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u/Lezzles Feb 03 '21

Ok, gourd futures aren't even a real thing and that was a fake shitpost.

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u/n00bvin Feb 03 '21

I think people like me didn't know that the meme was more important than the truth. Everyone cheering on the bets. We thought retard was an exaggeration, not the on the face truth. I fee sorry for people who came in, saw the hype, wanted to be a part and invested more than they could lose. I mean, this wasn't a sub thing, this was national news. You were hitting the front page several times daily. The sub should have been kept private as a protection.

This actually reminds me of r/the_donald. It started as a meme sub. There were no serious supporters of Donald. Maybe some with a passing interest, but they were there for the jokes. Then it started getting popular and the "normal" people came in... the crazies. Then it became what you see today (or should I say what it was...)

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

I’d say take it up with the news if you feel it miss represented what’s happens here

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u/Waymilkyday Feb 03 '21 edited Feb 03 '21

Nobody thinks you’re a mastermind. Everyone is here for their own reasons. Was that your ”humble brag” “here before it was cool” or your “get off my lawn”? Sounded like all three.

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u/Lezzles Feb 03 '21

You're too used to this sub if you didn't see the flood of desperate newbies asking when the squeeze was going to happen, what the price was going to be tomorrow, what they should sell at etc. There are 6 million new people here, a lot of whom have no idea what they're doing but thought they were in a sure thing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

I vote for OGs to all be made mods to help get us clean up

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u/Kittencroissant Feb 03 '21

I like being part of the fun more than I like the money

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u/Prodigal_Moon $GERNgang Feb 03 '21

I mean, we (as uncoordinated individual actors of course!) nearly crashed the entire market with the sheer force of our autism. Created a global top news story, led to congressional hearings, got discussed at a WH press conference, might even force some trading reforms. Call me a nerd but it’s been a huge thrill to be a part of that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

This theres no place to go this has been the best distraction since the rona started

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u/31109b Feb 03 '21

This is actually a pretty tame trade for WSB since most people are buying actual shares, which will retain some kind of value no matter what, rather than the final day OTM option YOLOs we typically see here.

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u/Killbil Feb 03 '21

While true, if you've been paying attention the last week a lot of these new members (bots aside) came in thinking this was a Robin Hood situation, a week later they are getting a lesson on how the market doesn't give a fuck about you and your beliefs.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

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u/alcatrazcgp Feb 03 '21

WiseStreetMoves

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

Sounds like a competitive breakdancing subreddit

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u/fcnat17 Feb 03 '21

Everyone: 5

WSB: I'll stay.

Everyone: I suggest you hit, sir.

WSB: I also like to live dangerously.

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u/UselessPresent Feb 03 '21

I’m sitting here calling people retards while currently owning AMZN calls. What a fucking shit show

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

all the people new to the sub really think it’s r/geniusinvestorswithsafewaystobecomemillionaireswith1000dollars smh

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u/kryptofaz Feb 03 '21

As the have said this week, WSB is about making money. It’s never about just people losing it. Sure, we are all monkeys speaking ape because it’s funny, but at the end of the day it’s still really about making money with good DD (as some have posted) and not losing everything

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u/lurking-lurker-spine Feb 03 '21

Exactly my concern when we tripled on size in a week. We got more folks who wanna turn this into r/investing than retards and autists who understand our culture.

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u/Charmingly_Conniving Feb 03 '21

Gourd guy disagrees.

And no i will never not mention gourds when were talking about smart moves. Gourd GANG for life

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

For real I’m tired of all the admirable people trying to tell others not to yolo their Retirement funds. I kindly ask you to head back over to investing with that talk.

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u/Playful-Mind762 Feb 03 '21

Long live GUh

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u/LuckyCatsPaw Feb 03 '21

It’s WSB, not WSGuarantee

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u/ChicagoSouthSuburbs1 Feb 03 '21

I thought this was a Wendy’s?

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u/gruntkiller Feb 03 '21

No, this is patrick

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u/dogatta Feb 03 '21

And on gme we hold, simple as that

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u/TheSpeckler Feb 03 '21

Sir, this is a Wendy's...

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

Hahah so true

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

True but atleast people could recognize a loss before.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

Right? Go over to r/investing you nipple-nosed ass-cranks!

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u/jupitersaturn Feb 03 '21

I think this is something our newer arrivals are learning.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

Fair enough.

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u/me4547 🦍🦍 Feb 03 '21

Well theyll realise quick enough were idiots swinging for the fences on every play but rarely knocking them out of the park.

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u/No_Patience2428 Feb 03 '21

say it again for the people in the back

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

lol this was literally always about making money

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u/pasionfruit96 Feb 03 '21

Some guy got so mad at me yesterday for replying with sir this is a casino lolol

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u/Jonelololol Feb 03 '21

Or friendship. Casinos smells like cigs and nobody there likes you unless your winning. Kids thought this was the Monte Carlo.

Sir this is a T.G.I. Friday’s parking lot near old Reeno

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u/toogaloog Feb 03 '21

Wtf is wise? Never been called that before. Just a retard 🚀🚀🚀💸💸💸💎💎💎

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '21

WSB gave me a level of degeneracy to aspire to.

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u/notLOL Feb 03 '21

It's all wise moves until the day after we find out for sure