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Imagine being in an abusive relationship with a fucking stock lmao
Replace tesla with "the sun" and instead of Twitter it's a priest explaining to a pharoh they're doing everything they can to appease Ra.
Hey man, at least the sun is real and worth something to life!
this is like reading one of those accounts of "how Amway ruined my life", but right before the author realizes it was a scam all along and all that effort they put into it only served to destroy more lives.
anyway, strengthPlan more like weakPlan. boom, gottem.
M'LORD, M'LORD THE CYBERWAGON LINE GOES DOWN
Why number not go up? My very normal and based in reality life depends on number go up 
I've been dutifully putting money and time into brand loyalty regardless of how the product or the CEO perform, why am I not making money?!
Im terribly grateful to you m’lord for selling me this golden goose, and I believe very much in it, but Sire the thing is, the golden goose you sold me, well it isn’t laying golden eggs m’lord.
Still love the goose though.
material conditions? pah. history is shaped by which side focuses their spirit energies better
Goku got 100,000,000 Zeni and killed god, so I'm inclined to believe this.
this is even worse than the normal religious belief of the unknowable rectitude of the market, this is a child praying for divine intervention without any adults or religious figures to temper their expectations
M'LOOOOOOORD HELP US
Tesla Bears?
In gambling terminology, "bear" and "bull" refer respectively to thinking that a bet is bad or good, so a "tesla bear" would be someone who thinks that "tesla will be more valuable in the future" is a bad bet
How did I play New Vegas for over 1000 hours and never figured this out?
Someone said New Vegas! I'm going to the Prospector Saloon!
??? I think the only bears in new vegas are the yao guai
I think they were referring to the Bear/Bull comparisons made to the NCR and the Legion since those are their respective symbols. Plus in lonesome road Ulysses is constantly going on about the Bear and the Bull when talking about them
i assume it gets into gambling from stonks bear and bull markets but stock markets and gambling are kinda the same so it's possible it's older in explicit games of chance
No, I'm just directly calling stocks gambling
not a cult though
Should've given that money to a mega church instead
You're in a cult. But all you'll lose is your comfortability. Which is better than most other cults.
(Not to @Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net obviously)
My ~~apes~~ stocks all my ~~apes~~ stocks are ~~gone~~ worthless!
we fight Tesla bears
The soviet union from Red Alert 3 attacks
Diamond hands! 
makes you wonder who’s being taken for a ride?
So if I had shorted tesla stock like 3 years ago does that mean I'd have money now or would I have had to invest like a lot of money to get anything from this?
To make money from stocks you need a lot of money to start with
Or be really insanely lucky with timing, like how I almost bought $1k of bitcoin in 2009, or how my brother almost invested in Tesla same year (we were almost lucky)
I remember hearing about bitcoin when they were like 10k btc for a single pizza and thinking "wow these are obviously a scam I'm not touching that shit" and I was right but also wrong
You do have to be lucky, but as someone who lost a whole bitcoin I mined from the early 2000s, I still think "even if you had it you would've sold it when it went up in price to like ten dollars". I feel like you have to be lucky with timing AND stupid enough to hold for the exact right amount of time, which I guess is just being double lucky.
Or do insanely leveraged bets that will lose you everything or evn more than you put in 99.99999% of the time
The problem with shorting is that it's an expensive position to maintain, so you have to get the timing bang on or you can lose potentially infinite money
I see I see. I have a very finite amount of money, unfortunately
Yeah if you short Tesla at $10 and they go bankrupt, you made $10. If they do a hype bubble and go to $100 you need to pay $100 back
Speculation is a game for the rich, I'm afraid
If you bought the correct put options, you could make a lot of money. But timing is everything, sometimes there are no good news for Tesla, but the stock shoots up by an entire Ford market cap in a day anyway.
How much Tesla news is there on a daily basis?
