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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 44m

I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror / It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero / It's ugly, like look at you! It's a damn shame
/ Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the girl's name

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2h

Levitating

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 2h

how am I (and @vegavandal.bsky.social for that matter) not explicitly tagged on this?

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6h

it really is just Gambling

zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 6h

There is the obvious 'the boss is obsessively indexing on the level of the S&P500', but an indirect way that fate of MAGA and that of the current dominant culture in equity/risk markets are intimately related is a similar paranoid fear of being a loser justifying total indulgence wrt downside risk

Financial illiteracy @sparticuszorro.bsky.social · 23h

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 6h

"Margin everything, what's the worst thing that could happen? Aren't you dead afraid to be a loser who loses?"

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 6h

Obliterating the scientific research base to settle scores with your enemies and 'risk it all young man, or you're ngmi / going to be a wage slave' are kind of the same psychological impulse

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 6h

There is the obvious 'the boss is obsessively indexing on the level of the S&P500', but an indirect way that fate of MAGA and that of the current dominant culture in equity/risk markets are intimately related is a similar paranoid fear of being a loser justifying total indulgence wrt downside risk

Financial illiteracy @sparticuszorro.bsky.social · 23h

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 9h

and of course <WW2 bullet plane dot gif>, you simply cannot process what kind of risk appetite drives someone to keep 60M in a single high volatility asset class, on margin, because it takes a special, special type of brain to get those 60M in the first place

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 9h

the other aspect should also be familiar if you translate it to 'tradfi' social dynamics. You may have 60x an insane amount but this is an all-consuming environment, both in time, and in social bonds, and your only benchmark is people in the trade too, some of whom are 600x, so you lose perspective

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 2d

excuse me, it's Bobson Dugnutt, CFA

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 2d

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

Cure (1997)

zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

This is in fact the plot of One Battle After Another

George Pearkes @peark.es · 4d

Fun bit of trivia this morning

*LEHMAN BROTHERS EUROPE ADMINISTRATION CONCLUDES AFTER 17 YEARS
*LONDON JUDGE SAYS ADMINISTRATION IS ENDED AT HEARING

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 5d

exhibit A, the major act to have come round my block in recent years, like, global-size level of recognition, doesn't have a bio that read like she's Paul Marshall's kid

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 5d

*men in skulls & bones adorned hats kidnap people off the streets to ship them off to unknown extraterritorial jurisdictions*

me, a savant: wow, be careful folks, this is a slow drip of measures to test the judiciary's willingness to give unlimited deference to the executive

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 5d

It's grimly funny to read these 'subtle slow drip maneuvering' theories, when the defeated candidate had his supporters march on the seat of government, the richest man in the world made nazi salutes at investiture, and they summoned the higher officers of the Department of War for a dressing down

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 6d

Actually it did begin with a parade of tanks

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments that are probing courts’ willingness to give unlimited deference to the commander in chief — and testing workarounds when they don’t.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 6d

that's what tree-planting carbon offset scam companies intermediaries are for amirite

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 7d

bottom right capitalising the R is most revealing here

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 8d

very valid

zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 8d

Only fellow Minnie Riperton obsessives will appreciate this, but PTA sure does leave featuring the shadow of his mother in law. First, the arresting appearance of Maya in Licorice Pizza and now OBAA has a few Leo lines that make you go "you've had a couple of beers with Mr Rudolph about this, huh?"

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 8d

I wanted to go there but my count gave me Tusk

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 8d

that's actually a fair point

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 8d

yes, I'm on a "people who say we need to have unfettered competition in all things don't seem to enjoy it when they're not winning the full pot" sort of line, which is admittedly a bit trite but also imo worth saying outloud now and then given how their normative claims are repeated at face value

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 8d

yea I'm not a moron, I can see descriptively that this is what's happening. It's still fine to say they are full of shit when they make normative cases about lowering of standards or access costs (perhaps the hiring practices of people like Marc Rowan are why the good is exorbitantly priced tbw)

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