1/n) The necessary Lies for Civilization
a list in no particular order
0) Language
1) That there are fates worse than death
2) That virtue is always inherent to truth
2a) That the pursuit of truth is always and everywhere a noble endeavour
3) That this time it will be different
Fintwit uses words like "beta", "Factor exposure", "value", "rotation", "momentum", "yield". The funds who use these words are happy with 8% a year that doesn't correlate with stocks. Is that your goal?
I want more. Words have power. Time for a new vocabulary. A thread👇
@Keubiko Realtalk: How do you even find enough motivation to keep this up after realizing scumbags are always and everywhere a human phenomenon? I admire it, but I can't fathom it.
@deepvaluepubs Thank you! I keep telling that to my mom but her fucking grave remains silent, like, can't she even bother to come down from heaven to acknowledge her son's W? Hag!
@deepvaluepubs The media will keep feeding you lies but they're even older than fossils, they're like trilobite DNA strands. Nowadays we get good and we get good HARD, grandpa. My unique skill of being literate enough to read WallStreetBets was obviously something warren buffett wasnt expecting
@deepvaluepubs Lies by Big Influence. I bought gamestop in january and was up 700% by the end of the month. I had obviously mastered investing in less than 30 days.
@demonetizedblog As for my future self, i guess it depends on which one I was in that situation. There's a particular malady writers suffer from (and you're now in that category) - which is that everything you wrote before RIGHT NOW feels like it was written by somebody else. So...I don't know.
@Keubiko The notion that Ross was ever, at any point in his life, part of the people is more offensive to me than his TSLA shilling. Christ, all the words I have for this guy would get my account banned.
@demonetizedblog I don't mean to be pithy but like, I've yet to see *any* story in any media that makes time travel compelling. The most I can do is Star Trek, and I only tolerate those because I like the crew of the Enterprise. Every single story that tried to make time travel its focus sucked
@M1tchRosenthal We all talk shit. Sometimes it's even dumb shit. The attempt - even if post facto - at restoring a civil level of discourse is nonetheless admirable. This whole human civilization experiment is based on communication. So, again, I truly appreciate it.