For me, what binds these three movements -- BLM, #StopTheSteal, and
#Gamestop -- together is not that they are populist (though, depending
on your definition, they might be), but that they advance radical
institutional critiques of the main pillars of contemporary society: the
police, democracy,
Florian I totally enjoy debating with you and there is not an ounce of
aggression or one-upsmanship intended here (nor taken, as far as I can see).
So after this precaution let me point out that BLM is a Black -led
movement, but not a minority one. Like the Civil Rights movement before
it, but
>
> Finally, why not call BLM populist?
>
BLM probably fits Laclau/Mouffe's definition and notion of populism as
agonistic. But since the movement is reclaiming minority rights, I don't
think it fits Müller's and Mudde's definition of populism as positioning a
majority of "the good people"
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 4:33 AM Florian Cramer wrote:
>
> Turns out that one of the big winners is (drumroll): a hedge fund, Senvest
> Management,
> which made a profit of $700 million from selling Gamestop shares that it
> had cheaply
> acquired in September to Gamestop/Robinhood players:
>
>
> Le 4 févr. 2021 à 11:32, Florian Cramer a écrit :
>
> Postscript to Jens Berger's article that I had posted yesterday:
>
> > This leads to the overlooked question: Who did sell the shares to the hedge
> > funds and the hobby speculators during the turmoil? Were it professionals
> > like
Postscript to Jens Berger's article that I had posted yesterday:
> This leads to the overlooked question: Who did sell the shares to the
hedge
> funds and the hobby speculators during the turmoil? Were it professionals
> like ['Big Short' investor Michael] Burry, [Elon] Musk and the Winkelvoss
>
An addition to Bodo's (IMHO) excellent analysis, written by the economic
journalist Jens Berger on the German left-wing political blog
"Nachdenkseiten" ("Reflection Pages"):
"[...] There are certainly some shrewd strategists among those amateur
speculators; people who early on grasped the
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 10:34 AM Balazs Bodo wrote:
> Yes, I agree, on an abstract level, it is fascinating to see congress
> members and presidents recruiting flat-earthers, non-voters, q anon shamans
> to carry out a coup, as much it is fascinating to see Musk mobilizing
> anonymous reddit
hello!
there has been talk of "empowerment" because it seems ordinary people who
are not rich can somehow skew or affect the stock market...and in this time
of billionaire "domination" that seems a victory.
Love this analogy to opiod epidemic...how about the vaccine debacle?
vaccines seem like
Hello,
may I be the grumpy old man here?
I am a tad tired to be fascinated by the latest madness that emerges from
the intersection of a US technology companies running amok, a US society
which i see struggling with deep political, social, economic problems, and
the psyche of mostly US citizens,
Two days ago an otherwise sensible friend, a political organizer, earnestly
and then angrily tried to convince me that purchasing stock in Gamestop was
somehow striking a blow against capitalism.
I was and remain very perplexed at how people could believe such a thing.
ONE WEIRD TRICK THAT BANKS
Just to clarify:
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 6:14 PM Max Herman wrote:
> I wonder if there is a meaningful distinction between BLM and the
alt-right phenoms recently accelerating. How do we distinguish between
progressivism and populism?
>
> To my understanding BLM is not necessarily populist per
GameStop checks all boxes of 'populism' as it has been defined by political
scientists Jan-Werner Müller and Cas Mudde, namely as a revolt of "the good
people" against "the corrupt elites". (I am less sure whether it would also
check the boxes of populism as defined by Laclau/Mouffe).
As you
With the stock market playing a major role in US economy it would
make sense for the GameStop enterprise to be initiated and funded by
a nation state to destabilize the US with cyber means and eager
crowds to whack Wall Street and its principal supporters with their own tools.
# distributed
I find the GameStop saga endlessly fascinating, on so many levels.
For one, it's a fitting continuation of the year of American discontent,
that started with #BLM, continued with #StopTheSteal, and reached now
Wall Street with #Gamestop. Politically, these movements are, of course,
very
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