Gamestop, but in a way that makes sense.

In June ‘20, I inherited some money and made the conscious decision to invest in green energy. I, with the full knowledge that the sum of money I invested was less than a millionth of one cent to their dollar, refused to put my money towards collective ill. This I chose over the objections of finance people, people who, when I asked a bout their socially conscious mutual funds said, “sure, we’ll take you out of Amazon and put you into Facebook.”

I would say their definition of socially conscious is different from mine, but I hardly believe they have one at all.

I invested in green energy companies that I researched on my own, hooray for me. I also, by whim - I was playing a video game at the time - put a small amount of money in Gamestop. I had no reason beyond “video games rule”. 

I have read a lot about what happened to Gamestop in January ‘21, and when I have tried to relay this information to people, they are at best bored, but usually outwardly hostile. I have failed, as have so god damn many people. Hopefully I am a better writer than talker and this will all make sense at the end.

I put an incorporeal “money” from one website into another website and that is how money works when you don’t need it. The more you need money, the heavier it is. That numbers then went from my website to a website related to the NYSE. This makes sense. That is the problem. I let the numbers sit on the screen like a vault, waiting for the day I would need them.

To most, Gamestop happened in January, but Gamestop “happened” for months, and is still happening.

I am going to do my best to explain what is happening in a way that does not make you outright hostile, so bear with me. I will fill you on in financial details via metaphor as we go along, so don’t worry about an infodump. You’ll love it.

The conditions that led us to Gamestop began when Jared Kushner ignored the CDC’s plan to deal with a pandemic, because he learned that the pandemic would do more damage to the non-white than the white, the poor than the rich, the Democrats more than the Republicans, and so he sentenced millions people to die. He is a murderer. He and the Trump administration will never be held accountable for this because the aristocracy does not want to set the precedent that committing genocide is bad. If they do, well, half of them would be wiped out.

Anecdotally, I have performed no scientific study, so do not trust me, but based on the initial projections released in March ‘20 that suggested if no measures were taken it would be likely that 2 million would die, and now living in our current state with a quarter of that and counting, both numbers unthinkable no more or less than tragic, it might be true that the half-assed response from local governments and the steadfast care of those capable of care prevented millions of deaths.

Politically, both sides have blamed the other, one because it’s true and the other because they can get away with it.

Psychologically, the U.S. only had one chance at a successful lockdown and, had right-wing media not chosen to side with Kushner’s genocidal quest, maybe the lockdown would have succeeded. Right-wing media is responsible for millions of deaths. They will never be held accountable for this because the aristocracy believes that the lives of the poor are worth less than numbers on a website.

In America, the entire country will come together to help each other support each other for about two weeks. Then it’s back to work. This directly correlates to the amount of vacation time the middle class thinks it deserves. After two weeks, the rich are able to pump their propaganda into enough people to divide the “middle” class (which is really just an abbreviation for “white and less hungry” and the poor and restore the status quo. They will never be held accountable for this because their propaganda is too successful.

The events that occurred in the last year are too many and varied and important and emotional for me to list here, but the end result is essentially countrywide cabin fever. It is more than clear now that the people who understand our problems, how to go about fixing things, and how to prevent it from happening again will never be listened to because the rich would be slightly less rich and that they cannot allow. They will never be held accountable for this because they can murder dissent in the womb... many, many times literally.

The pandemic gave rich people an idea. They looked at Gamestop’s stock and thought, “people can’t go there anymore, I’m going to bet they lose a lot of money.” They put their chips on black. It was obvious, a store you can’t buy things from will eventually go out of business (it did not occur to them to try and save it). It was too obvious, though. Too many people were betting on black. The gamblers wanted to bet on black so bad they borrowed money they didn’t have. They knew black could not lose.

And they were right, on a level playing field, they could not lose.

This happens all the time. It’s a way to print money for rich people. If enough rich people put their money on black, it tips the roulette wheel so hard the ball always falls on black. That seems bad!

Now, in December ‘20, the countrywide madness gripping everyone, trapping us all in a waking nightmare, every day thinking you’ve finally made it out of the dream and every day realizing you haven’t, some clever assholes realized that you didn’t have to play roulette, you could play poker.

They chose Gamestop. They kept betting a little bit here and there, taking the blinds from the rich. Not much, but consistently they were winning.

The rich didn’t realize they were playing poker, so they were confused. It didn’t make sense for them to be losing. They doubled down on the roulette wheel. Put it all on black.

They kept losing though, and they kept losing. So they had to go to the bookie to borrow money to buy back into the game. Bookies don’t lend money for free. The more the rich borrowed, the higher the vig. When the rich play poker with each other, they know when to take the L and move on to the next game. They don’t take the L when they play against the poor. They just keep buying back in the game, over and over again until they win. So they kept going well past the point they should have. They kept going to the bookie and the bookie kept raising the vig.

In January of ‘21, the clever assholes took their shot. The vig was so high, the rich had borrowed more than they could afford to pay back and the bookies wanted their money. The assholes went all-in and won. Then they played their last card, they switched the game back to roulette and the rich found out a shit ton of people had bet on red. They were going to lose 1000 times what they bet.

That could not stand.

So the rich got together and stopped it. The government helped them because they’re rich, too. None of them will ever be held accountable for this for obvious reasons.

This, however, is not the end. The poor have a taste for victory and the clever assholes can lead them like an army. Sure, the rich won that battle, but they barely learned a goddam thing from it. There were no consequences, barely any questions - the answers to which were so arcane and incomprehensible no one really wanted to follow up.

So they went right back to the roulette table!

With Gamestop!

And now they’re playing poker with the poor. It’s happening as we speak. None of these stock prices have anything to do with anything but the game.

I have money in Gamestop and in AMC, 2 meme stocks as they’re called for a couple reasons. 1, I think it’s hilarious and absurd that any of this is happening and I want some skin in the game, and 2, I am surprisingly interested in the game.

The game itself is comically rigged, as subtle as the Catskills, but it’s balanced on the knife’s edge of collective human behavior. One way it’s rigged, the poor are only given one spot. Rich white assholes clutter up every other seat at the table. In order to artificially lower the price of these meme stocks, the rich guys refuse to play with the poor, only trading their borrowed money back and forth with each other. But as they do, the vig keeps going up. They keep borrowing from the bookies, which isn’t a bad idea, seeing as how the bookies are firmly in their pocket.

Usually, it works because the poor get so bored they quit, the rich guys get their money, and everyone goes home happy except the poor who go home hungry. But it only works if the poor get bored. If they just stay at the table for long enough, they’ll win it all. 

So we’re back at the roulette table. The rich are betting the poor will get bored and leave, the poor are betting they can stick together long enough for the vig to come due. See, the thing is, if we all bet on red, just like when enough rich people bet on black they drop the price, if enough people bet on red, well… we literally can’t lose. 

I will not give you investment advice, but if you want to really fuck some people up - maybe the whole economy - buy AMC stock. I think it’s the right thing to do. Naked short selling should be illegal - it’s a tool for stealing money - and the only way to make it illegal is to break things so bad the rich want to regulate it to keep the poor at bay. 

Or we could rely on the Democrats to outlaw it! Ha! HAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHA!