[Billthedrill]

You know the saying about throwing a rock at a pack of dogs - the one that yelps is the one that got hit.

[Nathan _in_Arkansas]

How dare the little peons attempt to play the rich’s games?

[ClearCase_guy]

We are supposed to sit quietly and let the Powerful walk all over us. It’s sort of a problem if we don’t do that.

[KarlInOhio]

So in this analogy the hedge funds are the ballot box stuffers cheating the system to win? I can see that.

[Spirit of Liberty]

The elites are P.O.’ed that the rabble are fighting back, no matter what the weapon or what side the rabble are on.

[Wayne07]

It isn’t a bad comparison - both are examples of a mob trying to disrupt the establishment.

[Travis McGee]

[PapaBear3625]

The Hedge Funds are in trouble. Not just a little financial trouble, but a lot of legal trouble.

What triggered the buying of Gamestop was people on Reddit noticing that short sellers had sold 140% of the actual amount of Gamestop stock. The hedge funds not only sold stock they didn't have (Naked Short Selling, which is illegal, at least when mere mortals do it), but 40% more than exists.

This is why many brokerage houses have halted retail investers ability to buy Gamestop

Much of the volume of Gamestop trading involves stocks which do not actually exist. The trades cannot be cleared. The trades cannot be settled by the clearing firms..

And once this becomes painfully obvious to the general public, too many uncomfortable questions are going to be asked.

[commonguymd]

This is definitely not a right or left phenomenon. This goes back to the Wall Street bailouts and before. This is about the establishment vs the normals. This is something right and left can contribute to.

[nevergore]

The Reddit group-based investors are being demonized as controlling the market because they noticed the huge short positions in Gamestop and capitalized on it.......

No-one is demonizing Wall Street firms for heavily shorting Gamestop to the point of destroying them.......

[Regulator]

Right. As long as you’re a Made Guy in the Wall Street Gang, you can kick the crap out of businesses with abandon, scheme on how to suck billions out of them, but if anyone crosses you in your little game, they’re Deplorable Terrorists.

Got it.

[Right Wing Assault]

Invisible coffee.

[Alcibiades]

What are the going to do if the public decides the stock game really is rigged and everyone decides to sell their 401k and go fully into cash?

[NoLibZone]

But the elections are not rigged.

[redgolum]

Investment insurrection. By this time next week charges will be filed for the redditors.

Probably some sort of hate crime if I had to make a guess.

Got a call from a lawyer friend asking if I had joined in on this (I haven’t). He said that the word is charges are going to be filed for the reddit group

[LS]

It’s very much the same thing. Two different arenas, but the smelly hillbillies smacking the elites.

And don’t think for a minute the elites weren’t ROCKED by the Patriot Day (Jan. 6) revolt. Ordinary people had them cravenly cowering and hiding under desks and running for elevators. It was a beautiful sight.

WSB is doing the same thing to the smarmy hedgies.

[rdl6989]

It’s was down 105 earlier.

[Vaduz]

Nothing like a little drama to open some eyes.