We need to be honest about what is happening.

Hedge Fund Short sellers sold Gamestop short, and published damaging reports on it. Retail investors realized there was a giant sized short squeeze going on, due to a number of hedge funds mispricing for example Gamestop. Gamestop's prospects are much better than previously though, due to new gaming platforms.

Retail investors piled onto a few stocks, realizing that because of the short squeeze, they could hurt short sellers and make potentially ludicrous profits. Also, they realized that many of the short sellers were deliberately posting negative reports, to depress stock prices and create buying opportunities for themselves. Then they'd buy at low points, and produce new price targets with fat profits ensured for themselves.

Speculation about price is what the stock market is all about, as a part of price discovery. You see this speculation with outsized call volume mainly.

I don't think we should be bailing out these hedge funds by putting stops on trading or limiting options activity, which counteracts the short selling naysayers. If someone wants to buy a call that is a potential one-way bet with a potential return of 5000% and a set cost, that is their own decision. No one forced these short sellers to take negative bets.

Google has been giving a pass to pedophiles, while censoring and de-platforming political adversaries, and free speech.

Silicon Valley, so corrupt

Facebook is in the Surveillance business.

Marconi is spinning in his grave

Fifth Amendment

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

If he is going to incriminate himself by unlocking the phone, I think that falls under the 5th Amendment.

"EVERY country that has heavily armed populace running around is a Third World shithole."

Except the US.

Let's hope other countries do the same thing too.

Remember, agencies of the US government regularly attempt to influence elections overseas, and, oppose the natural desires of their electorate

Below are a selection of links about the same, from across the political spectrum that are quite well-documented.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.channel4.com/news/...

https://www.straitstimes.com/w...

https://www.telesurtv.net/engl...

http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

https://www.wnyc.org/story/his...

http://www.truth-out.org/opini...

https://www.foreignaffairs.com...

https://www.thenewamerican.com...

https://www.npr.org/2016/12/22...

https://www.politico.eu/articl...

https://www.strategic-culture....

This is wrong.

During the Younger Dryas, which was fairly recent, the temperature shifted faster that it is shifting now

We are still moving away from the Ice Age, and mere blips up and own don't change the longterm trend.

> No its not, if you have said experience then it should be damn easy to certify and re certify, you know for saftey and all that jazz.

Just because I can easily do it, doesn't mean I want to spend my time, and my life, going over the basics of using weapons all over again. I don't accept that we need to have a registration or certification process as a prerequisite to self-defense.

The right to self defense, and the requirement to self defense far predates the 2nd amendment. http://www.guncite.com/journal...

If bows, swords, clubs and knives didn't require certification and licensing, why should they now? Sure, training is important, but that should be at the option of the wielder, not enforced by a government in order to control citizenry.

> Just because you may have fired thousands of rounds does not mean that you understand all of the different types of guns.

Wrong. I have been trained in fully automatic heavy crew served weapons, grenade launchers, light machine guns of several types, handguns of several types, shotguns, and rifles.

> I mean if someone has driven an automatic for thousands and thousands of miles do they automatically know how to drive a standard? and while keeping on that analogy, how many people get lazy and over confident in their driving and end up being really unsafe drivers?

This is a bad analogy for those of us with military & police backgrounds, as we are qualified with several rifles and handguns, over many years, on a regular basis. The more combat arms oriented roles include not only above, but also foreign weaponry. As NATO members we do cross-training with our partners and it is common for militaries working joint exercises to qualify each other on their weaponry.

While I am not a big democrat, I think many of us wanted to see Bernie vs Trump.

It was clear that Bernie had the energy, the youth support, and that he was much closer to the heart and soul of the modern Democrat party. I can respect that, and his complete support for a certain type of system. While I might not agree with it, at least he is completely honest about where he stands and what he represents. Crazy Uncle Bernie should have been given a chance.

Bernie vs Trump would have been a grand battle royale of dueling narratives. A socialist, neo-communist vice the slick hyper-capitalist.

We, the American people lost out when this battle of ideas was not waged in the public, for our mindshare. Instead, we were left with a Democrat insider with a catalog of health issues, hardly able to defend Democrat positions.

Given above, is it any suprise that many people chose to vote against Hillary?

It was Seth Rich, a bernie-bro, and he paid for his truth-telling already.

https://www.thenation.com/arti...

the liberal anti-gun nuts, despite ever decreasing amounts of crime, always rant and rave about taking our guns away. They don't focus on recent failures where crazies got guns illegally, or, the system failed. Or a coward police officer sat in safety while innocent children died. No, they talk about encroaching on our freedoms when we are legal, mentally acute, law abiding citizens & veterans. And deadly accurate I might add.

Good luck taking our guns away!

my favorite technique when someone takes a contrary position is to come out with a group of ad hominem attacks, and claim they have personality defects. /Sarcasm. It isn't like we in the US have a sizeable number of active duty & veterans across all the 7 uniformed services, and gun bearing professionals in Law enforcement & security, and just regular citizens with interests. We don't number in the millions, we are just a figment of your imagination....