I’m late to this party, and maybe I’ll post it elsewhere. Obviously I’m cheering for the GME r/Wall Street Bets crowd, I just wanted to spitball some thoughts about all this because it’s fascinating to me, but it doesn’t feel right.
Am I the only one who firstly doesn’t think r/WSB has the influence that they’re being credited for? Like, this could be a huge psyop coordinated by God knows who and using the media to portray it as the little guy, the underdog? Half my friends who I wouldn’t trust to take care of a stray cat are now day traders allegedly. Could this be a huge trap, one of the biggest pump and dump schemes of all time. Sure one or 2 hedge funds might go under, but this could sucker in your crazy aunt to start trading. COVID has a lot of folks on unemployment, they’re spending more time on their phones and when I go on social media this is all I see all day. Shit about GME but also about Dogecoin. Could this be a gigantic coordinated setup for one of the largest wealth transfers from the lower & middle class to the rich, and they’re masquerading it as “the people took the helm and manipulated markets, we must punish them for doing this” as a way to sucker a few dollars out of unsuspecting people who are already suffering and just want to make some money?
I don’t know, these are just some thoughts. This doesn’t feel right to me. I just can’t see WSB having as much influence as they’ve been portrayed to have, we already know to doubt nearly all media and they’re feeding this line. I would love to hear anyone else’s thoughts or just call me an idiot. Tried to talk this through with my girlfriend but she shut me down real quick. Regardless, this is nothing if not extremely fascinating no matter what comes of it.
While some people may be into it for the money, many are willing to lose some in order to hurt Wallstreet more.
The solid analysis was that WS had shorted more GME than existed. They HAD to buy back at high price. Once that caught on, momentum buyers then were looking to flip 100 into 200, but the original surge was backed by good info.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, lots of normies are buying in because they want to hurt WS more. They don't care if they loose 200 if it costs WS millions.
At some point, it will go down, and money will be lost by regular people. We still will have won the war. And hopefully some of these crooks will be behind bars for their corruption and manipulation (RobinHood)
This right here 100%. This is the first time peasants are able to meaningfully strike back at the establishment cronies.
I'd never have imagined that our civil will not be involved guns-n-bullets but rather a financial guerrilla warfare on the stock exchange.
This is how we fight back. By attacking their financial security.
I want you to be right so bad, just afraid that this is an illusion. Both sides seem to be unified on this issue, I’m just very suspicious. I guess we’ll see, but damn, I hope you’re right, and if “we” have this much power, why not band together and do it again repeatedly? I’m worried that the lower end will end up holding the bag, but to make a wish I’ll say it for the third time: I hope you are right.
I get it. After all the larping and Q's false flags, we don't know what or who to trust anymore.
For what it's worth, if nothing else, this strike back at Wall Street is minimum a morale booster from all the black pills since Jan. 20th.
Best case scenario, it established a precedent for normies and austists to have a real way of striking back at the swamp alliance.
Whether this is another larp or not, it couldn't demoralize us any further with Biden fucking us over a little more everyday. So, I think this is "real" hopium that is much needed at this time.