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The fact that Ted Cruz and AOC completely agree on this shows you how unprecedented this all is.
by s_dev 6y ago
The fact that Ted Cruz and AOC completely agree on this shows you how unprecedented this all is.
- threevox 6y agoExactly - it really feels like a watershed moment of some kind, though I'm not exactly sure how
- Larrikin 6y agoIt's a super simple non partisan issue that can get him some press that isn't about his sedition
- krapp 6y agoAbout that... https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354848253729234944 https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354848253729234944
- philosopher1234 6y agoAOC is such a firebrand. I love it. Not a lot of politicians who give me the sense that they're actually fighting for me.
- kortilla 6y agoHow does that tweet make you think she is fighting for you and not just for publicity?
- Larrikin 6y agoWords have context around them
- philosopher1234 6y agoWhy would it make me think any different? She's right.
- kortilla 6y agoBecause she’s been there for quite some time now and achieved very little legislatively. The extreme grandstanding for her Twitter followers got her boxed out by her own party. She’s now just the lady with the socialist hot take for the evening news without any real means to change anything.
- Larrikin 6y agoShe's still a house representative, being known at all is a massive first step in such a large body. She's also just survived her first election as an incumbent. Two years in the house as a freshman with a Senate and president that would block everything anyway is not a time scale where you can reasonably expect to have massive legislation passed.
- throwawayboise 6y agoYou just described 75M Trump voters...
- koheripbal 6y agoShe reminds me of Trump in his early primary days. Lots of zingers on Twitter - no experience - no compromise.
- danesparza 6y agoIt is kind of hard to forget conspiracy to commit murder and sedition. She does kind of have a point ...
- ralston3 6y agoLmao I laughed so hard. "You can resign" XD
- paulddraper 6y ago> Ted Cruz almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago Well not that much of a watershed moment I guess.
- unethical_ban 6y agoI wish she would tone down rhetoric sometimes - There is a lot of straight-up factual fire to spit, and Ted Cruz did not literally factually try to murder her. She could have made her point without that phrasing.
- Kye 6y agoDemocrats tried even tones for decades without much to show for it.
- asveikau 6y agoHe did endorse the would-be murderers. Major news networks literally played video of people on the floor of the chambers saying "Ted Cruz wants us to do this". https://www.google.com/search?q=cruz%20wants%20us%20to%20do%20this https://www.google.com/search?q=cruz%20wants%20us%20to%20do%...
- adventured 6y agoAnd the guy that got caught telling people to assassinate AOC during the riot, blamed Trump in hindsight; while his prior tweets made it exceptionally clear that he did it of his own volition. That's called trying to blame someone else to save your own ass, blame shifting.
- pdevr 6y agoAgree. They, of course, have their own reasons for doing this. But regardless, I feel it is a very good thing to happen. If influential people from both parties can work together for issues like this, it will make the world a better and fairer place for the middle class and the poor.
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- wtfiswiththis 6y agoWhy is that guy even a subject? What happen to Republicans where they decided that nepotism was their bag? People need to leave the TV show host family in the past unless it's about prosecuting them for finance crimes and bankrolling/inciting sedition.
- pdevr 6y agoAnd Rashida Tlaib and Donald Trump Jr too. I am so glad to see legislators and politicians from both sides, regardless of their motivations, getting together on the side of the people. For the people, you know.
- wtfiswiththis 6y agoI'm sorry did you just call one of the Trump kids a politician?
- danesparza 6y agoWait -- Ted Cruz agrees with this? Do you have a tweet link or an article?
- throwanem 6y agohttps://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1354833603943931905 https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1354833603943931905
- npmaile 6y agoThis has happened before, and is a great litmus test for something that is either very bad or very good.
- koheripbal 6y agoMore importantly, neither heads of the party agree. It's more like the extremists vs the centrists.
- newacct583 6y agoYes, but... they're both wrong. The trades that Robinhood blocked were objectively bad trades, and the people they stopped from buying would almost certainly have lost all that money. Now, I agree that there's a good first principles argument (and also a bad populist one) that people should be allowed to trade their own money into scams if they want. But the idea of proving damages here based on the idea that GME was going to CONTINUE TO GO UP after a 500% increase triggered by a short squeeze is just insane, sorry.
- brentm 6y ago"The trades that Robinhood blocked were objectively bad trades" Seriously? Do you want brokers making this call? That is not their job. Let people learn the hard way, that is what the markets are for. Now, don't let them do it on margin but if you're going to plow your savings into GME at $450 a share then I am sorry but it's your own fault for not doing any homework at all.
- ne0flex 6y agoI agree that this is how it should be, but then we'll inevitably end up with a bunch morons who lost their money and then demand the government to right them. It's a lose-lose situation.
- s_dev 6y ago"This is Wall-street Dr. Burry, if you offer us free money, we're going to take it" The notion that an exchange would protect a trader from trades is laughably absurd.
- adoxyz 6y agoThis is a bad take. There's millions of bad trades you can make. Should Robinhood block all of those as well?
- N1H1L 6y agoAlso how do you quantify a bad trade? How much lost money? I trade on Robinhood too (not GME though), and just two weeks back I lost money on Nio stock. Is that a bad trade? Should Robinhood have stopped me from buying that stock?
- Dirlewanger 6y agoIt reveals that the whole "left vs. right" culture war is a massive sham designed to occupy and waste the all the plebian's attentions and get eyeballs on advertisers while the rich and powerful sit back and laugh. And people already downvoting me...lol. Do you not realize you're just willing pawns?
- adventured 6y agoWait a minute. Are those big tech hearings not going to amount to anything? Approximately the exact same thing AOC's fake hearing/s will amount to. It's nothing more than populist grandstanding.
- lainga 6y agoCruz agrees with AOC. AOC took the opportunity to tell Cruz he "almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago": https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354848253729234944 https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354848253729234944
- tyrust 6y agoHolding someone accountable for their actions longer than one press cycle is a good thing.
- sgregnt 6y agoIt's not just Robingood! I'm on Schwab and they blocked trading with GME this morning (didn't try it but SELL might still be open)
- smnrchrds 6y agoI think TD Ameritrade did the same.