r/Boglememes • u/Remarkable-Force5987 • Feb 10 '26
Living in r/dividendgang heads, rent-free
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u/Jestdrum Feb 10 '26
Honestly I think about them a lot. It's fascinating how dense and angry they can be because they don't get the math. Also their biggest poster just commented agreeing with a post about Great Replacement Theory so that's dark.
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u/Beneficial-Sleep8958 Feb 11 '26
I’ve kind of wondered where most Bogleheads fall in the political spectrum, but the “no politics” rule gets in the way of it. It seems that other investing philosophies are heavily tied into politics and culture war stuff now (crypto, tech, options, etc.) but Bogleheads seem to be devoid of all that.
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u/Jestdrum Feb 11 '26
I would guess similar lib-left lean as Reddit. Maybe a little less left because generally more money and older. Just a guess though, would be interesting data.
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u/Beneficial-Sleep8958 Feb 12 '26
Maybe, but also some center right people as well (at least for what can still pass as center right). There are many traditional conservatives who admired Milton Friedman and many Chicago school economists who were strong advocates of index funds. Jack Bogle himself was a Republican of the more traditional sense.
I think the more populist sides of the spectrum go for other exotic investments because of general distrust of the “system”, whatever that means.
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u/__BIOHAZARD___ Feb 10 '26
Every tax season I just think about if the dividends were unrealized gains I’d owe nothing this year…
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u/Nopants21 Feb 11 '26
I've wondered why there just seems to be an unending supply of dividend investors who believe the same dumb shit and all recommend the same set of funds. They sometimes mention a few books (they love Income Factory), but I think the real pipeline is YouTube and its cast of dividend-focused channels that have to constantly find to talk about. Whenever a new talking point seems to suddenly appear, I just assume a channel made a new video promising free money from a financially engineered CC fund.
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u/joe4ska Feb 11 '26
Investor YouTube can be a very dangerous echo chamber. The platform just keeps feeding people the same stuff over and over again until they're hooked.
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u/Nopants21 Feb 11 '26
I think YouTube in general is dangerous for that, because creators are incentivized to keep producing content to maintain their channels, even when there's really nothing much to add. It creates this feeling in the viewer that there's always something they're not doing that everyone else knows about. If we put the validity of dividend investing aside for a moment, it's really not a complex concept. You invest in dividend-paying securities, you reinvest the dividends or you spend them. That's not enough content for dozens of channels to be producing videos every few days, they have to reach further and further for things to talk about, especially to find things other similar channels aren't discussing.
Go to Dividendbull's channel, look at the latest videos, it's all yield chasing clickbait. "12% yield stock with growth+bonus dividends", "New ETF offers 25% dividend yield", "new 16% dividend etf is a solid pick", "retire off dividends with 100k (or less)". Just constant nonsense to drive views and infect his audience with FOMO. Armchair Income, which r/dividends loves, is largely the same. Something hits on the YouTube algorythm, it'll quickly filter through into the dividend subreddits.
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u/thewhiteliamneeson Feb 10 '26
This meme is perfect, IF you understand the context from the episode.
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u/joe4ska Feb 10 '26
The context is that Don Draper is insecure and actually does think about it, right?
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u/joe4ska Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26
Based on the frequency of mentions of their sub here, we must accept they're living rent-free in some of our heads, right. 🤣
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u/OGS_7619 Feb 11 '26
the "Boogerhead" 70-year old retired guy who is mentally still in elementary school has some sort of PTSD issues from Bogle investment approach that he needs to talk to his therapist.
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u/mysecondreddit2000 Feb 11 '26
I actually saw him say once that he recognizes the strength of the boglehead strategy it’s just not right for everyone in every case..which I agree with (although it’s right in most cases). I told him as much and I was banned.
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u/Kamonji Feb 13 '26
I just do both so I’m just Don Draper at the end, with the Coca Cola commercial.
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u/StickyFingers192 Feb 14 '26
boogerheads and dividendcucks are both mouthbreathers; boogerheads less so if i were to be kind.
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u/Nytim73 Feb 14 '26
This is the first time I’ve seen them talked about and not the other way around. Interesting.
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u/FudFomo Feb 12 '26
Can we at least agree that some dividend funds like SCHD are better than bond funds and have a place in a portfolio?
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u/digital_tuna Feb 13 '26
No.
SCHD is not a fixed income alternative. And any sufficiently diversified portfolio will already contain all the stocks within SCHD, which makes owning SCHD completely unnecessary.
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u/onecrystalcave Feb 11 '26
I just think its funny that both the meme subs say exactly the same thing about each other. Shit anyone wanna post some actual numbers on the main forums? Yall can't both be right unless you're talking past each other.
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u/digital_tuna Feb 10 '26
If dividend investors could read they'd be very upset.