My kid (25) voted for Qidan. I respected his right to choose. Then he bought GME after following “DeepFuckingValue” on Reddit. He panicked when it dipped and sold 90 of his 100 shares and (only) doubled his investment in a month. He was bummed. He was angered when the powers that be stopped people from buying. First we talked about protecting your capital is the #1 rule. Then we talked about the forces at work and the battle for hearts and minds. He took a few red pills. I explained my red pill was 911. Who bought millions of dollars in puts on the airline stocks the week before? They made billions! Plus the free falling twin towers not to mention the 3rd building (hardened for a nuclear strike) going down several days later. I lost friends over that. They could not stomach the red pill. I asked him if he saw the irony in someone named DeepFuckingValue buying a junk company like GME. The only deep value is knowing a huge short squeeze is coming. Then, I really baked his noodle when I asked him, “who do you threw the billions at GME to force that short squeeze?” That was a killer whale taking out the apex predator sharks (hedge funds). Do the math. No way millions of little guys outgunned the hedge funds. He said wow Dad that’s a lot to think about. Then he said, do you always notice stuff like this? I said, my job is to leave the world a better place then I found it for you and all those I love. So yes, I do.
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It’s been 20 years but I thought it was a day or two later.
Nope, it was pulled same day. Well after BBC reporter went live saying it collapsed while still clearly up in the background, but I digress.
And Larry Silverstein was on camera saying "Pull it!"
At least he no longer had to worry about paying to have all that asbestos removed anymore.
I am so sick of all of this.
"Let it rip"
I remember that. I thought wait, I see it. How do you know it collapsed. A day to remember for sure.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B7CLP7mbPqA
Found a clip.
I was there. First time I had ever heard the term 'pull the building', along with the industry slang definition of what it meant.
Na, but notably it was reported in UK 20 minutes before it actually happened.
Well, to be fair, the UK is ahead of us, time wise. So obviously they already saw what happened before we did. /s
For what it's worth, you could still see building 7 behind the reporter in a "live" shot while she was reporting it had collapsed.
LOL, that's illogical mate. Live is live, it does not matter what time zone one is reporting from. It's not like they are in a worm hole lol.
You missed the /s sarc tag lad...
I know, it was meant to be sarcasm... /s
Larry "Pull It" Silverstein
Another free-fall. My recollection of the narrative was it “collapsed” from damages caused by debris from the Towers. A hardened steel superstructure. I was like, “yeah right you morons”.
I thought he meant hours