I’m hoping the bigger narrative that takes place is the crumbling of the widely believed lie that a stock is a reflection of the performance of a company (and by extention, Wall Street is Main Street).

I’m of the “It was a dull, mostly empty but scenic region, with very little to do except track down a uninteresting villain” camp.

was a perfect platelet cleanser

Side note on Bloodborne.

Man, I wish I was born having already created a really famous internet platform and married to a tremendously wealthy tennis player (things apparently some people can do prior to their own birth). Then I’d never have had to deal with being working class the lion’s share of my life. Unlike this lucky guy.

I’ve got no skin in this game, but I can’t see how this move by the trading apps is anything but corruption.  Can anyone smarter than me explain why this might not be them bowing to rich people pressure?

This is no more pump and dump than a TV show advising people to buy a certain stock is. The fact that people listened doesn’t suddenly make it illegal.

How is it pump and dump if there’s no deception? Did r/wallstreetbets, as a group, lie about what they were doing? I don’t think so. And even if someone did, good luck proving it and tying any of the purchases to that lie. 

Your looking for a conspiracy to exist when theres a stupidly simple explanation we’ve seen play out countless times before.

Yep. Bernie Madoff didn’t didn’t go to prison for fucking over the poor and middle class.

You fucking imbecile, of course its fraud if its not done over a round of golf!

Wow. Hate speech? There is plenty of stupid speech there, but hateful?  First NASDAQ halts trading. Then brokers limit trading. Now this. The crooks working overtime to stop the squeeze. The game is being gamed. LOL. 

Doubt that it’s about racism.  r/WSB has always had an affectionate relationship with calling themselves autistic and r-worded.

Today, we decided to remove the server and its owner from Discord for continuing to allow hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings.

its a 2m-3m person subreddit, of course there are some.

I have a hard time believing that this is because of any “hate speech” and not some damage control made by some wealthy hedge fund members

That statement right there made me smile like the fat cat that just ate the canary, the fact the Reddit became its own hedge fund and is lead by randos is even more hilarious .

Hope this goes higher: shorting is very profitable exactly *because* it’s also incredibly risky, which is why buying on margin was a big part of what caused the Great Crash, and shorting is more-or-less the same thing with extra steps.

Not gonna lie, I think it would be hilarious if memes killed the stock market. lol 

I saw an article about all this business a few days ago and considered investing.

Then I didn’t.

Well that’s going on the the long list of regrets I’ve accrued thus far.