Oh some people have made a bucketload. Every out of money call option has been coming in massively.
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I just read on it briefly. It sounded like people are trying to get some sort of revenge on the hedge funds. Of course, you could make a lot of money if you bought at the start of the rally and sold at a peak.
Oh thereās plenty of other ways to make money on it. The out of money call options have made some people millionaires as a result. You wouldnāt even need to hold the stock.
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Your hometown must be the most anti-racist place on earth! Congrats!
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Yeah, ive been following it since its beginnings a few weeks ago. Didnt have the balls to join in though. Absolutle insanity though. Good for the WSB folks who made it happen. Big funds are the ones truly driving it now (the amount of money involved is far larger than could be attributed to the individual WSB/RH crowd), but this is probably the first time that the individual little guys are making a killing on a short squeeze ALONG SIDE the institutional investors. Good for them.
Side note, the GME short squeeze has influenced a number of other short squeezesā¦ but i dont see it happening nearly to the extent of GME.
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I think that is quite hyperbolic. The history is still taught and documentaries, books and movies are still made.
And the āoppressedā minority driving these changes are essentially being allowed to have this smal bit of power by the majority, but only because its frankly not that important. Its just names, or statues. Its a completely minor, insignificant issue when you compare it to all the other issues a group could fight to wield influence over. IMO, the folks getting all riled up by the name of a Middle school or street are being way overly sensitive. Both sides. They deserve each other. Probably for the best they continue majoring in the minors.
Im guessing people in here will get super riled up about the $20 bill having harriet tubmans face on it too. SMH.
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There is a really popular lake (Calhoun, now called Bde Mka Ska) in Minneapolis that had the name changed, and it has been quite interesting watching the events unfold. Lotās of lawsuits. Businesses on the lake were upset especially if they had the name in their business name. I think they changed it, then it was changed back, and now it is back to Bde Mka Ska.
I was initially against it, but then I looked up this Calhoun fellow. Not exactly fair to compare him to others of his time, as he was one of the worst in regards to advocating slavery. He went a step further than most at the time, and advocated that it was not a necessary evil, but a morally good thing to own slaves.
I do think they could have renamed the lake with a name that people could pronounce, instead of the Sioux name (which is nearly a dead language, and only a very small fraction of Sioux can even speak it). I think using the English translation would be a good compromise as white sand lake is a bit easier than Bde Mka Ska.
How itās taught is the real question.
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I dont think that teaching the āfullā story regarding historical figures is a bad thing.
And folks should take into account that young people love to rebel against the status quo. They are ingrained to be contrarian and want to stick it to The Man. So, historical figures their schools, lakes, streets are named after are easy targets to get fired up aboutā¦ and we generally let them because its a teeny tiny small loss to adults with real problems, but a BIG win to the folks fighting for the change. A wave of PC name changes happened in the 60s too if folks remember.
I remember that. Some relatives of mine live a few blocks from the lake, and told me about it whenever it happened.
Iām a little torn. As a member of the Sioux tribe, I hope the languages some of us speak donāt die out, and I typically think people should be open to learning how to pronouce a few words in a different language (I know a family who take in (usually Asian) exchange students, but they refuse to learn how to pronounce their real names and just make up some āAmericanā name for them) since itās relatively easy, but yeahā¦almost no one is going to bother looking into how to pronouce Bde Mka Ska, haha. White Sand would be a fair compromise.
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I do know one person who can speak Sioux (my buddies wife). I also can see how the English translation could be off putting to some, but that is the nature of a compromise. After reading about Calhoun, I think either the Sioux name or the translation is preferable. Some of the advocates for keeping Calhoun seem to think it is similar to changing the name from Washington or Lincoln to a Sioux name. The guy had some untenable ideas, and seemed to be almost a troll.
I really had no idea who he was. A two minute Google search gives me a pretty clear idea, haha.
Nitpicking here, but I think it actually translates to White Earth. Thereās a White Earth tribe/reservation in MN, itās probably connected to them.
And the language is Dakota. Iām in S.D., where the language is mostly Lakota. Iām pretty sure the only significant difference is that the Lakota language has an āL,ā and the Dakota language does not. Something like that. Both Dakota and Lakota tribes make up the Sioux Nation, which covers most of the upper Midwest.
Iām not saying this to act all hoity toity, nor am I an SJW, but I figured Iād say it.
P.S. For anyone reading these last few posts, the lakeās new (and old?) name, Bde Mka Ska is pronounced buh-day muh-kah skah. Iām sure everyone cared to know that.
Thatās my Ted Talk for the day.
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Itās teaching it with bias thatās the issue. Itās using a narrative of good vs evil. Winners and losers.
When was this? The sixties? Young people today are conformists whose beliefs are trend driven.
The thing is, itās adults coming up with this crap. Kids donāt care about Washington or Lincoln. A lot of them think this sjw overcorrection is funny. Believe it or not, they can understand historical context.
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I thought the language was nearly the same between the two, like the difference between Spanish spoke in Mexico and Puerto Rico?
My buddiesā wife is Lakota, but IIRC, they have Dakota near them in Pine Ridge. I have always heard them talk as if both are Sioux, but they are Lakota Sioux, and their neighbors are Dakota Sioux. Perhaps the Dakota like to differentiate from the Lakota?
The translation was just a guess on my part (I heard what it was at one point), I tried to google translate, but no luck.
Ask any Spanish speaker outside of puerto rico and theyāll tell you puerto ricans donāt speak Spanish.
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I have some Puerto Rican friends, and it seems like when they converse with other Spanish speakers they donāt seem have any difficulty understanding each other?
Yeah I think it pretty much is, absent that one letter.
I donāt get too hung up on the label, but if some non-Native person asks me, I generally say Sioux, as most people have heard of it and it requires little explanation on my part. If Iām anywhere outside of my own area, most people havenāt heard of Lakota, and only associate Dakota with the state names. Not that it comes up often. Maybe your friends have a similar opinion?
Maybe. I really donāt know. Lakota have more of the famous people though, haha.
100% agree. If someone did something bad in the past, just tell me what they did. Donāt tell me how it means that all white people are bad and owe something to brown people.
Yeah, as a young person, Iām not seeing kids come up with any of this. Itās generally middle aged people, and the college students who are influenced and agree with them. And Iām not necessarily saying Iām against all of it, just that I agree with @zecarlo.
I have met Billy Mills. Nice guy. I donāt think I would know who he is though if I hadnāt met him.
Other than that all I can think of is Graham Green. Not sure if he is Lakota? He plays one in Dances with Wolves though.
Itās a joke.
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