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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

From what I've read, if there was a deal where the other person would also benefitted from it, he would see it as "money left on the table", and at worst he would instead crash out. This puts his financial decisions into context.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If the United States could see what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 18 points 23 hours ago

It's a good thing the United States has spent a long time making sure the United States doesn't ever have to see what the United States is actually doing to the United States.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 52 points 1 day ago (7 children)

How in God's name do you bankrupt a casino?

[–] podperson@lemm.ee 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Well you see, a casino is an extremely complex, mult-layered business in which customers enter said business with the expectation and intent of exchanging money for entertainment, and the casino itself is guaranteed through simple probabilities and statistics to have an advantage over the customer on all of the games presented, and.... oh wait. Yep, he must really suck at business.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 5 points 13 hours ago

A casino is a business where people give you money expecting nothing in return.

There are a lot of ruffles and flourishes to disguise that fact, but is the simple truth.

And Trump is so stupid he managed to fuck it up. Twice.

[–] ef9357@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

By being Dumbass Donny.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 44 points 1 day ago

Multiple times, too

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By using it to launder money.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Using it to launder money usually results in an extremely profitable casino, not the opposite.

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 4 points 13 hours ago

I have a feeling Trump thought money laundering involved laundromats.

[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

By building a second casino down the street so they would compete with each other and both end in bankruptcy.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 21 hours ago

Well that's a special kind of stupid.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bankrupting a casino is usually a good thing. E.g. "I'm the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo".

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 4 points 21 hours ago

Bankrupting it from the outside is good for the guy who does it. But that's not the same thing.

[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 7 points 21 hours ago

Launder whatever you want, but you could still be able to stay in the black.

[–] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bloody hell! So this is the Onion? The fucking world is upside down

[–] nikatjef@mastodon.acm.org 12 points 1 day ago

@HowAbt2morrow
The Onion is a past master, and is second only to South Park, at critical predictive journalism

@tonytins

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 11 points 1 day ago

No, "The Shovel".

Absolutely brutal takedown.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Merrick Garland chugs dick

Such a fucking letdown. I didn't have a lot of faith in him, but I hoped that his being shut out of the SC would at least light a fire under his ass, hell what did he have to lose? FUUUCK!!

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 10 points 1 day ago

Move fast, break things can make sense in a garage startup.

Once you hit the ~$1M valuation, then you should really have a plan that has some depth and a deep understanding of the principles. The scale we are looking at is several orders of magnitude beyond that. It's lunacy.

This guy is speed running depression.