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[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

He's right wing memeing to get another cash infusion from idiots. Solid strategy really for your average corporate sociopath.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 points 20 hours ago

after all that effort from the WSB community to save the company.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

He's just pissed his company is on life support, and that WSB just dragged out the inevitable.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

All it had going for it was the over-short-sold theory, which was sound but not enough to prevent the billionaires from just adjusting the way they play the game. The idea to become a focal point for gaming (instead of just a place to buy games and other shit) might have worked but I never saw any changes at all in that direction in any gamestops I visited. Just shelves full of products I only kinda want. And a lot of space dedicated to funkopops, which I don't understand why anyone wants. Does anyone even still want them at this point? I don't think I've every seen someone buying one.

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago

His company is alive thanks to a meme. Get fucked, CEO

[–] sness@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago

Trading in my points and cancelling my membership this weekend. 95K points should get me a few fun things before I never ship there again.

[–] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Dump the stonks!

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 20 hours ago

is it me or conservative always freak out when thier R politician wins an election, did not think the things they are railing against was happening,.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whelp time to cancel my GameStop runs.

I don't support chuds

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't cancel what I never did. GameStop routinely has terrible prices, poor selection (in my area), and mediocre service. I buy most of my used games from eBay, and most of my new games from Target (when on sale). Screw GameStop...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

The WSB campaign to save it made no sense to me. So many better companies have gone under.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He just needs to stop, Trumps bro-circle jerk is already full.

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

It has nothing to do with his being an abject failure as a CEO. Nope. Nothing at all.

[–] paladin3494@feddit.dk 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

DEI is some zealous American Puritanism which has no relevance in France, so I’m confused how he made the connection?

I doubt it's related:

The reality is that the physical side of GameStop's business has been in steady decline for a while. In 2019, GameStop closed around 200 stores in an attempt to "reboot" the company. GameStop's fortunes briefly rose due to its 2021 stock surge, but shares quickly plummeted following that initial spike.

They're probably just not making a profit anymore in those regions, so they're closing up shop, and the CEO took the opportunity to go on a largely unrelated rant.

I don't really know much about French politics, but surely there is something similar that right wing reactionaries can get upset about there.

For example a Dutch friend of mine who has been radicalized by Joe Rogan, Twitter, and Facebook tells me that you can't say anything bad about Islam in Holland, as he sends me link after link with fascist anti-Muslim propaganda. (Like... you can't say things that the "news" that you just sent me is literally saying?)

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 day ago (5 children)

guess it's time to finally sell my GameStop stonk.

Carbon hands, everyone.

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

I sold all mine the second he started tweeting about trump. Good riddance.

[–] SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I bought a share at $350. Still holding. Tbh it's just not worth the effort of resetting my Robinhood password to sell it.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Even if it's not worth it to you personally, it's still a good deed to sell stock in a company when their CEO does something like this. Every sell sends a small message.

[–] AlDente@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

A sell doesn't happen without a buyer on the other end. It's a wash when it comes to messaging.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

it's not a wash, because you sell for a different price than you bought at.

[–] AlDente@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not saying it's a wash in terms of price. Instead, I'm saying it doesn't send a message through some tally of sells for the day, because buys and sells are at a 1:1 ratio.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh yeah, definitely. I didn't mean about a tally of sells.

[–] SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I assumed it'd be good for them in some way if I sold (I don't understand stocks). If it sucks for them even a little I'm selling.

[–] sneaky@r.nf 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You're just selling to some roaringkitty fanboy the actual company couldn't care less. If you're in a 350 you may as well hold it on the off chance something weird happens and you could break even.

Or, you can sell at a loss for the tax benefit, but that only applies if you have capital gains to use it against. So if you find one year you make some money off some other stock that would be a good time to sell the GME at a loss.

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[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 105 points 2 days ago (22 children)

Are redditors still diamond hands on gme?

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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 83 points 2 days ago (26 children)

At the rate these chains are telling me to fuck off with my business and ignore them I'm gonna end up with nothing but farmer markets and crafts shows to shop at...

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[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 58 points 2 days ago (18 children)

It has absolutely nothing to do with their entire core business model being obsolete.

Nor with the issue that they've been hemmoraging money at a staggering rate.

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