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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Are redditors still diamond hands on gme?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Let me tell you a story... I sold off all my Bitcoin and put it all into GME stock right when it was starting to go up... Because why not right? It wasn't much like it was worth 1000 bucks or something... Because everyone said the bitcoin bubble was going to pop or something... And then Bitcoin went from 30k to 60k in like two months... And now it's closer to 100k

Long story short I make bad choices and no fuckin way I'm selling my GME for a loss just for it to double or triple again in two months

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

-whispers into your ear-

You should sell.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think people underestimate the mental health benefits of never thinking about whether number you can’t control or predict go up or down.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I see you jack.

Jack: This is GE!

Banks: It's just G now, Jack. I sold the E. To Samsung. They're Samesung now.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where is the /s?

WHERE IS THE /S?

[–] JohnnyCanuck 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not since Ryan Cohen gave the shorts everything they wanted with the stock sale last year and had absolutely nothing to show for it like a new product or acquisition. Ryan Cohen betrayed his core investors and did something that was supposed to be impossible. He turned a MACD Golden cross into a death cross with a stock sale. Impossible because it would take considerable timing, and back door dealing that is still illegal, in order for it to happen. GameStop dead. Ryan selling assets cuz the ship ain't righted, and he ain't got a better plan. Shrink the business and rip off the small guys that invested.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Frankly I think every stock-oriented subreddit is a controlled operation meant to pull value from the subscribers only. I doubt almost any thread on those subs are people authentically sharing their perspectives.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 week ago (5 children)

At the rate these chains are telling me to fuck off with my business and ignore them I'm gonna end up with nothing but farmer markets and crafts shows to shop at...

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (4 children)

And somehow, Costco? Weird twist.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's not even a weird twist it's just people who understand how capitalism actually functions and realize that investing in their workers means their workers have more disposable time and income to spend buying shit at Costco.

It's wild to me that we've had to go from advocating for leftism/unions to "if we are gonna do capitalism shouldn't we at least do it in a way that won't break literally everything?"

Costco is simply a traditional capitalist business that doesn't want to see the economy completely implode for everyone but the rich. They are simply promoting capitalist economic fundamentals that made the US an economic powerhouse in the world and built a wealthy "middle class."

Treating your workers well is also an attempt to prevent unionization. Only about 8% of Costco employees are represented by a union.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ford used to say something to the effect of 'pay your workers well enough to afford the product they're building' and it seemed to work well.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have some bad news about farmers for you...

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Honestly, is that a bad thing though?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Do not ask those farmers follow-up questions.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (8 children)

They don't sell a lot of video games at farmers markets and craft shows... You have to go to a flea market for that, and those are rather dodgy.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It has absolutely nothing to do with their entire core business model being obsolete.

Nor with the issue that they've been hemmoraging money at a staggering rate.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Wait, their business model of giving you $3 for a game they'll charge $50 for isn't working? The business model that I have to go drive and interact with someone and hope the game is in stock? Who would have thought?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The company as a whole is profitable with not a dollar of debt, where is this staggering hemmorage?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Recall that the first quarter after the whole WSB thing, they had something like 2 billion in cash from that whole thing.

A year later, they had 1 billion.

Half a year later, 500 million.

All of a sudden this quarter, after shutting down stores all over the place and gutting their staff, they're claiming 4 billion cash on hand, helped out by unproven social media claims growing their stock price 30%.

doubt. Their business model relies on physical games being sold multiple times, once when new, and then multiple times as used copies. This is why they're focusing on retro consoles. New consoles have passable online marketplaces, so Gamestop cannot compete, and are completely inferior to PC gaming, which hasn't needed Gamestop in 20 years.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (15 children)

guess it's time to finally sell my GameStop stonk.

Carbon hands, everyone.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

I sold all mine the second he started tweeting about trump. Good riddance.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i made $5 from years of holding 😂 quickest sell of my life

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I lost $300 bucks but here's what I gained: I stuck it to the man in 2021, and I am sticking it to Ryan Cohen today.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Anyone who didn't sell after the idiocy of the NFT market is a fuckin bagholder through and through.

An NFT market was stupid to begin with, because it's trying to use endless amounts of CPU cycles to enforce an "ownership" system that is genuinely unneeded and only serves to benefit Capital and Capitalists.

Hell yeah let's burn down the planet for fuckin skins in video games! /s

Later, they would shut down the same market, after barely over a year and a half.

This was and is a company with no concrete plans for the future that was spinning its wheels since its core business was failing and continues to fail.

Diamond hands? More like Sunk Cost Hands.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Whelp time to cancel my GameStop runs.

I don't support chuds

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Sell sell sell!

Seriously, when CEOs say shit like this they're covering for something. Abandon fucking ship

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He just needs to stop, Trumps bro-circle jerk is already full.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

DEI is some zealous American Puritanism which has no relevance in France, so I’m confused how he made the connection?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I don't really know much about French politics, but surely there is something similar that right wing reactionaries can get upset about there.

For example a Dutch friend of mine who has been radicalized by Joe Rogan, Twitter, and Facebook tells me that you can't say anything bad about Islam in Holland, as he sends me link after link with fascist anti-Muslim propaganda. (Like... you can't say things that the "news" that you just sent me is literally saying?)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I doubt it's related:

The reality is that the physical side of GameStop's business has been in steady decline for a while. In 2019, GameStop closed around 200 stores in an attempt to "reboot" the company. GameStop's fortunes briefly rose due to its 2021 stock surge, but shares quickly plummeted following that initial spike.

They're probably just not making a profit anymore in those regions, so they're closing up shop, and the CEO took the opportunity to go on a largely unrelated rant.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

what an odd thing to say for a company that employs millions of minorities. sold my stock

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[–] Punchshark 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

RC is turning out to be a giant douche bag. Who would have saw that coming

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

His company is alive thanks to a meme. Get fucked, CEO

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

after all that effort from the WSB community to save the company.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I was entirely checked out on gme until a few weeks ago, when I remembered it and decided to drop the bag. Turns out I pretty much broke even. Glad to see I was making the right move

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Dump the stonks!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (18 children)

Honestly as a dumbass still holding worthless empty bags labeled GME, I hate Ryan Cohen almost as much as I hate Musk.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just wish I was paying attention the day it climbed back up to 60$, I would have sold for a small profit in a hurry...

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