Tim Pool lays out the argument here, saying Reddit never said to squeeze silver. Fake news is telling you to buy silver in order to bail out Melvin Capital because they own a significant portion of the silver market. https://patriots.win/p/11SKLNM1T7/even-tim-pool-knows-capital-owns/

So I researched it, and even Yahoo agrees that Melvin Capital benefits in a silver squeeze: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/citadel-silver-bet-exposes-rifts-082912706.html

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