As evidenced in The Big Short when it was very clear to banks and regulators that the whole mortgage shell game was falling apart and they all refused to act on it.
I really just threw in my covid check but what really made me think it's still worth is the original guy who saw value when the stock was worth less than $7 doubled his position and still to this day is holding on. He knows more than me and he saw this happening and probably sees something else too that I don't understand so whatever I'm still holding a good amount of GME.
But if you step back and see the forest for the trees, what place do they have in this economy when most new games are digital purchases and trend more and more toward that with each day? They aren't selling retro game and only deal with current stuff and their prices are insanely high compared to the digital storefronts. The chotchkis alone (Funko pops and TShirts) aren't enough to sustain all the overhead for a company this large. They've tried to branch out into PC gaming accessories but who's going to go there versus online?
I'm pretty sure Biden was to the right of Reagan and I think his status as a GOP icon has all but evaporated with Trump in the picture. Half of his base is too young to even remember him and the other half has had their brains turned to mush with all the right wing propaganda.
To start, we have Trump calling Zelensky a "dictator" and blaming Ukraine for "starting the war with Russia." We have Trump negotiating the removal of sanctions against Russia. We have Trump calling for Russia to be re-added to the G7. Russia hacked the DNC in 2016 and leaked all their information to help get him elected the first time. During his first term, we had Republicans walking around like this:
Russia wants the power and influence of the former USSR. They're doing it by destabilizing and weakening western countries like the US and UK via bot farms on social media, getting people like Trump elected and leading them around by their nose, getting Brexit passed, stoking animosity and conflict, engaging in proxy wars like in Syria, supporting dictatorships like North Korea, trying to destabilize NATO while forming their own organization called BRICS, etc, etc.
That sounds pretty rad. I'm almost 40 and haven't ever seen this either. Perhaps it was just the coke addicted business tycoons of the 1980s and '90s that got to experience this tech.
I can tell you don't follow politics or the news if you think they need to "overtake" us when the elected president is capitulating to their every desire while half the voting population cheers it on.
The only one I ever had experience with was the Blackberry Touch that my wife had. It was a total piece of junk and I think she went through 2 or 3 during the warranty period. This was after their heyday, though, when they were trying to jump on the smartphone bandwagon.
They're playing the long game and having everyone else destroy themselves so that they can swoop in afterward. Much like how the US did after WWII when most of the world was rebuilding.
Repeating the word "propaganda" over and over isn't an explanation and doesn't make it true.
Making false claims and repeating them over and over while refusing to provide any details is definitely a tactic propagandists use, however. Gee, isn't that funny...
I mean it's very obviously speculation because nobody has a crystal ball to see the outcome of decisions that never happened. It's just an interesting thought experiment and something to ponder.
Corporations absolutely are people, at least according to Mitt Romney and SCOTUS.