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My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan.

This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery..

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 38 points 5 months ago

he knows some shit but completely immaterial analysis. for now, crypto and stonks are not very linked, even with the stupid bitcoin etfs.

[-] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago

You genuinely don't see the connections in the stock market? That's on you just not looking.

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 38 points 5 months ago

not enough to collapse the entire market like the housing bubble did. thats what im saying.

he is talking like crypto is so cool that it threatens capitalism.

[-] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Enjoy it while it lasts 👻

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 5 months ago

The left shouts “All Cops Are Bastards,” which ensures they’ll be hated by the police and the public (and flies in the face of leftist theory).

...Yeeeeeeeeah this is a settler; and as such, gets filed with the rest of the settler wind

from him on October 20:

We’re seeing the divisive media campaigns play out with the Israel-Hamas War: Harvard, Stanford, NYU, Penn, Columbia, and Cornell have all had professors or student groups make brazen, incendiary pro-Hamas statements. These schools are awash with crypto criminals, and these people are all lying – it’s all manufactured so they can make us angry, divide us, undermine anti-Netanyahu sentiment, and write countless op-eds about how any sort of leftist action at universities is wokeness run amok.

0 theory, already curling into defensive "oh it's just netanyahu that's bad"

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 months ago

Worse: a /r/stupidpol user

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 months ago

The bottom of my shoe has more dignity than r/stupidpol

[-] sawne128@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago

This guy was apparently a r/trueanon user.

[-] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago
[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 months ago

I'll take "Things that Scan" for $500, Alex.

[-] sawne128@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Doesn't surprise me.

[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 months ago

I was expecting another "stop Trump or democracy is over" sorta thing but this is actually unique and compelling, interesting.

[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

This "stop Trump or democracy is over" thing is so goddamn flimsy that I don't know if anyone, no matter how mentally ill, would willingly put themselves through any discomfort at all in order to defend it

Even those who honestly take that slogan at face value do not feel at all moved by it, except to performative tears... no lib would ever do any kind of violent or hurtful direct action like that, because this slogan is not about life or death, as was the case with Bushnell and, mistaken and ill as he might have been, with this man. It's all about feeling comfortable and undisturbed.

[-] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 months ago

Lol 100% same.

Fascinating writing style as well, some of the pop culture bits were a bit too insane for me.

But otherwise a great read tbch

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Seems to me like a white liberal struggling extremely hard to avoid blaming anything except the intensifying contradictions of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and patriarchy for his problems. “Fascism is coming” / “a ponzi scheme is about to collapse” like lol bro welcome to the year 1500 in England, we sure have a lot of history to tell you about.

This also has major first time as tragedy, second time as farce vibes. Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire to protest genocide; Mazarello here set himself on fire because his stocks might decline.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

Seriously, you could do this for every president lmao

It is the year 2000, and the dot com bubble is about to burst and George W Bush is going to make everything fascist manhattan

It is the year 2008, and the great recession is happening and Barack Obama is going to make everything fascist manhattan

It is the year 2020, and a pandemic caused a market crash and Donald Trump is going to make everything fascist manhattan

[-] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

I mean a better example would be a president before his examples, yeah? Otherwise, you've obviously not read it.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I did read it; he goes on a very lengthy screed about how the Simpsons is used to control contemporary culture

He also pulls out

The left shouts “All Cops Are Bastards,” which ensures they’ll be hated by the police and the public (and flies in the face of leftist theory).

I don't totally disagree with everything he writes, but much of it is already plainly obvious, and

We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup.

We've been living in that reality (fascist world order) for decades now. As pointed out earlier in this chain, it sounds like a liberal on the cusp of a breakdown because they're having issues reconciling reality with their preconceived notions of how it should work

[-] hollowmines@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

I have seen a lot of "oh this is kind of neat" posts on here that I can't square with the over-the-top Simpsons content.

[-] assyrian@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

we’re all Lisa Simpson

[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

reading that is just sad

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 months ago

Is there any confirmation that this was actually written by him. I don't have any reason to doubt but a confirmation would be nice.

[-] macerated_baby_presidents@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I got an email from Max Azzarello in October linking to this substack. He was shopping it around for a while to different left orgs (because it's bunk).

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Weird post. I mainly noticed that it forgets other countries exist.

[-] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Ignore the words "global inflation" and you're 100% right

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