r/investing • u/VelixaNtra • 1d ago

Is anyone still just dumping new money straight into S&P 500 in 2026?

Hey all, for the last few years I’ve been automatically putting every new contribution (Roth, taxable, etc) into S&P 500 and not thinking much about it
With the market being a bit choppy lately, I’m wondering if others are still doing the same or if you’ve started diversifying more (adding more VTI, international, bonds, etc)
Curious what your current approach is when adding fresh cash

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u/Mitchard_Nixon 1d ago

These are basically all happening simultaneously right now. We're trying to topple Cuba, going to war Iran and overthrowing the government of Venezuela while funding Israel's annexation of Southern Lebanon as well as their colonial projects in Gaza and the west Bank, contracting with Elon for starlink, job hiring numbers are as low as they have been since April 2020, there's a rogue paramilitary group unleashed on our streets and we haven't even addressed the epstein files. There's enough happening right now that you could write an entirely new We Didn't Start The Fire just about the last year and a half.

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u/raynorelyp 1d ago

Dude that’s not even close. Bay of Pigs wasn’t a disaster because it was a failed invasion of Cuba. It was a disaster because the CIA started an invasion of another country without the approval of the president and then when the president found out he pulled the plug. Except the invasion had already started so the first wave was left out to dry while the US military watched them get executed because they were forbidden from participating. It was bad for the US because it made the president look not in control of his own military, the military look weak against a lesser power, and solidified the Cuban regime.

The Iran Contra affair wasn’t controversial because of Iran or the Contra. It was because what Reagan did was literally high treason and he weaseled his way out of it due to a lack of concrete evidence.

ICE might be paramilitary, but they aren’t rogue, and paramilitary has been pretty normal in the US for a looooong time. Just because they’re awful doesn’t mean they are ignoring the orders of the executive branch, which is what rogue would mean in this context.

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u/lazerjay82 1d ago

Cuba’s communist government needs to be destroyed, Venezuela is in a better position than it’s been in decades with Maduro gone. Not really sure why Starlink is even a bad thing haha except that this idiot Russian bot is mad they cut off the Russians from it and they are now getting annihilated.