Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Did Wall Street fund FDR, Hitler and the Bolsheviks? Looking at Prof. Antony C Sutton's theory" video.

@MrWolfstar8 That’s nonsensical use of the word Wall Street as big corporations and high net worth individuals often invest without use of the markets at all. If you're going to accuse, accuse specific persons rather than this "anyone richer than me is corrupt" garbage. And again, many investors just say "politics is for politicians" and buy anything that's legal and cheap. Also, nobodies can also make controversial investments. I personally sold put contracts on the RUSL investment fund a soon after the Ukraine war started. The reason being so many people were dumping their shares in the Russian fund that the fund was trading at half the value of the stocks they owned and those stocks were trading below the liquidation value of the companies. This bet did not work out for me as the fund was closed soon after and I was forced to realize a loss, but this investment did not stop me from attempting to get a Ukrainian visa to fight in the war myself.
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@aleksazunjic9672 Politics is bad for business. See target's bathroom shenanigans.
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No, war is not profitable. Even if you make money there won't be anything to buy with it. What good is doubling your business if the cost of living goes up tenfold and simple things like cars become luxuries?
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@darthazgorath9570 not exactly. There were naval incidents in the Atlantic and people talked about getting into the war in Europe while Washington used sanctions to try and convince Japan to make peace with China. Although yes, it was a total surprise that Japanese carriers started the fighting rather than German U-boats.
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@zigoter2185 it's size was mainly due to how oil drilling costs millions and may yield nothing, so a company that can absorb such losses easily is preferred. YouTube channels are the total opposite, as anyone can do it using at most a couple grand worth of equipment and cover some highly niche topic that has an audience.
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@МаксимСоколов-д4я ok, now you're slightly contridicting yourself besides another historic mistake because the Brits repelled the "Bolos" but withdrew later due to disinterest in the campaign. Do you even know what sort of government Britain had back then?
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He also doesn't know a friggin thing about stock markets.
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If you're referring to the current situation in the US, the Fed is currently destroying all those bills they printed. I have no idea how successful they will be.
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Wall Street banker is way to vague a term. You mean investment banks or asset managers or both?
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Is that a sick joke or do you have a death wish?
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What good is doubling your business if the cost of living goes up tenfold?
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@Zeralop Julius Malema, much? Yeah, some people are like that, and the easiest way to find them is they're all deluded that money=power and that everyone with money would seek to misuse it.
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@Zeralop Money is no good if there's nothing to buy with it.
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TIK, no competitor with Amazon pays minimum wage. They don't pay very well, but I think Mr Bezos is just expressing a genuine opinion rather than a 4d chess move (Mr Bezos has done a list of anti-competitive stuff in the past, though).
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By the German's logic anything short of unconditional surrender was just a temporary truce to be ready to fight later. Recall the reason for killing the children too was to break an imagined cycle of violence between the races.
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There's nothing right nor left about monarchy. It totally depends on the dispositions of the sovereign.
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I can't even vouch for my first cousin's sanity...
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Distance. Romania isn't the easiest place to get to and any effort there would siphon off assets from other fronts.
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@nemiw4429 and what's to stop the Soviets from hitting Bulgaria and rendering all the Romanian defenses a waste?
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Wall Street is a market, not a corporation. Likewise "the capitalists" are not a defined group/faction, but a class of persons, and poor people buy stocks/bonds too. Commies come to sell bonds you can be sure SOMEBODY will come and buy them. In fact, many investment professionals will openly buy anything at all as long as the price is right.
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That run on sentence may make sense in your head, but not to anyone else.
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@aleksazunjic9672 not everyone is as power hungry as you are, pendejo. Some people just want money so they can have parties with drugs, girls, and luxury living everywhere. Other people, like me, want money so we can live of the procedes of investment and follow our dreams. Other people want to fund charities. Other people like to fund thrill seeking behaviors like gambling and sky diving. Other people want to get their kids into fancy schools, and so on a so forth.
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Wall Street is a market, not a company. You can be sure sone idiot comes and buys whatever you're selling, as seen by major frauds like Nikola and IonQ where non-existing companies sell shares.
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He was full of it.
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@joesalyers the title of his book, the delusions of near grand victory, and the arbitrary defection. I never heard of him before this, though.
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@joesalyers Because he's clearly a lying egomaniac.
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Britain invaded Russia and sent tons of materials and equipment to the whites, but it never took the slightest priority over the Great War. For info on the Russian Civil War I recommend Bruce Lincoln's "Red Victory."
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He wasn't the sovereign of England, he was an illustrious politician. Imagine blaming Mr Biden for things Congress did in 2010.
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@aleksazunjic9672 Vhut? You mind making sense, pendejo?
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Wall Street isn't a person or corporation and cannot "support" anyone nor be a monopoly. It's a friggin market place. Sutton doesn't know a thing about the topic at hand, he just hates people who make more money than he does.
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@nickhambly8610 you do
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@nickhambly8610 you say that but we all know you don't believe it
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If he were alive today he'd be too busy spreading libel on Twitter to write a book.
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It's a market, not a company.
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@aleksazunjic9672 this idiot doesn't even know what over-the-counter trading and private equity is... Who you are referring to is the Intercontinental Exchange. They own a long list of markets, but they neither buy nor sell nor choose winners and losers, nor do they choose who buys what. They simply rent data plans from their servers where buyers and sellers meet. Literally anyone can rent from them and become a market maker (someone who will both buy and sell any asset for a small fee). Then there are the stock brokers, the investment funds, the high net worth people, the investment banks, the actual banks, the retail investors, the hedge funds, the corporations trading stocks, and many other competing actors all seeming the same thing: profit. The governments of each country set the rules as to what is legal to trade and what isn't, for instance America's SEC has bloked the listing of many Chinese companies due to systemically sloppy accounting in that country.
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AMEN [Spits on ground]
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Only people who want state business monopolies actually delude themselves into thinking capitalism leads to monopolies. Simply put, in a free market, anyone can start any venture at any time, and besides monopolies are illegal.
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@davidburroughs2244 that's Bell's company, and they had the original patent to the telephone. There were many competitors, but none at scale that could pose a problem (installing phone lines are expensive), so they were broken up into all the current telephone giants. This same story applies to Standard Oil, as oil drilling costs millions and may yield nothing so you need a company that can absorb that kind of loss.
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@aleksazunjic9672 except you just stated how it isn't a monopoly as those companies are not friends but competition. I think you don't even know enough about economics to be commenting on this matter. Do you even know what profit margin is?
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@aleksazunjic9672 hello? You miss the part where they have separate execs, stocks, and company logos? Are you also going to say all governments in the UN are one country? Because that's less absurd than the castration worthy incompetence you're displaying.
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Shut up
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@aleksazunjic9672 don't be silly. Literally ANYONE can rent a data plan from the exchange and become a market maker. Literally ANYONE, anywhere in the world, can buy any legal investment for any reason. A Russian oligarch can buy US treasury bonds no questions asked, for instance. A nobody grad student like me can employ hedge fund style strategies no questions asked. And a lot of investment professionals will say "politics is for politicians" and buy any legal asset if the price is right. This is contrasted to Communist China's exchange, which doesn't allow foreign assets and the exchange and big companies are state owned.
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@aleksazunjic9672 I invest, and I'm a factory worker in grad school. Do you not know what a stock brokerage is?
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Shut up
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He sure as hell never said nor believed that.
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@guillermomaclachlan1072 you cheat on your taxes, don't you?
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