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mindlessobserver said:
I really do not want this to be true. The implications are absolutely horrifying as if it was true it would be nothing less then an act of war perpetrated on the American people by these investment funds with at best the approval by inaction of our government. I really really do not like what this drama is pulling into the light.
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The light tends to hurt when one is kept in the dark for so long.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
I really do not want this to be true. The implications are absolutely horrifying as if it was true it would be nothing less then an act of war perpetrated on the American people by these investment funds with at best the approval by inaction of our government. I really really do not like what this drama is pulling into the light.
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I mean, the writing is kind of on the wall. Why else would so many other atrocities committed last year be allowed to go largely unchecked, despite what everyone's eyes see? The government is not our friend, a lot of this was perpetrated under the guise of racial inequality and equity, but it's really always been class warfare from the ruling elite and the middle class. The purpose of last year was to begin the plan of destroying the middle class and effectively enslaving the working class, the poor and misinformed.
 
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Exbein said:
I would like to hope that most, if not all people pumping on GME right now is just doing it to spite the hedgies or just for the potential lulz. because, no matter what Melvin does to bring down the share price, people just needs to hold the stock and they win. no matter what.
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I'm holding till someone bleeds. But it's a mistake to think the hedgies are being static about this, just because the retail plan is static.

Everyone has been talking as if the entire interconnected system could topple. But turn the table and treat it as a puzzle: if you were a hedgie given the situation on Tuesday, how would you solve the problem so it doesn't collapse?

My answer is: one systemic piece at a time. Then one trade at a time. Then repeat until enough pieces are solvent and the danger is past.

If you had 3 days to unwind a massive short position like Melvin's, you would panic. If you had 3 days, connections at all the other hedge funds, the sympathy of the system-protectors, the ear of politicians... then you might be looking at tens of billions of dollars available to deploy in your defense.

The $2 billion infusion was ass-saving liquidity. The buy order freeze was the shock that stopped the climb, thus keeping it within a range. RH and its clearing desk probably fucked up and gave the game away, but that's an acceptable loss and distraction. Nobody knows what kind of back room deals went on between Citadel, the institutional holders of GME, and any identifiable holders of the short calls.

If Citadel could buy Melvin enough time to unwind its Friday shares, that gives it another week where it can try to squeeze shares out of profit-taking institutional holders, since retail seems unwilling to budge. If they couldn't, then they bully the counterparties to delay payment until either they have the shares, or they secure funding. After Melvin is saved, you bail out the other copycat shorts the same way.

I don't know how many shorts were due Friday, the classic "squeeze" situation would usually continue until the price soared and someone collapsed. But the price went sideways from its open, the short % of float didn't fall, and no one collapsed. That tells me either the Friday expiration was small and manageable, or someone behind the scenes is holding the entire group of shorts and counterparties in a coordinated pattern.

Normally, I would write off all of the above as baseless speculation. The only evidence I have is indirect, from observing the market and the players' behavior.

But normally, we wouldn't have all but 2 brokers simultaneously choking off Buy orders, in an environment where there's more cash sloshing around the system than ever before.
 
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Andy Bandy Man said:
Is Batman, like the badguy?
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Bruce Wayne (and to a lesser extent, Tony Stark) is certainly an idealistic rich person, an entrepreneur that actually provides employment and prosperity to everyone below him. It's implied even in the animated series that Wayne Enterprises is basically the main lynchpin holding up the Gotham City economy.

On the other hand, Bane, despite being portrayed as highly intelligent, is one of these retards who think "rich = bad" and would probably spout meme buzzwords like "late stage capitalism" unironically.
 
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EyelessMC said:
UNHOLY HELL! THAT'S IT!!
Certain businesses were given preference during the initial Covid lockdowns and others with the means began to spike in profits. It could be coincidence and gamblers taking advantage, but what if the protracted lockdowns AND the riots were part of a three-pronged attack of consolidating more power in the hands of a few? Consider also what's going on with farmland and Monsanto with Biden's executive orders and suddenly I'm getting a little convinced this was somewhat, to some degree, coordinated.

- The lockdowns,
- The lack of actual financial support/relief to those businesses who need it,
- The riots looting and destroying everything,
- Further lockdowns and further arbitrary regulations making running those businesses to any real profit nearly impossible...
Then the vultures of Wall Street start circling the dying businesses and picking them off one-by-one in the stock market with all the money going back into the system of the wealthiest of the wealthy and their financiers.

This echoes so much like during gamergate when we were talking about how incestuous fag journos were and suddenly fell down a rabbit hole of DARPA, Bill Gate's connections, Common Core, the Obama administration, etc. Genuine conspiracies we had no idea were going on but stumbled into simple because out autism kept going.

What if WSB has unintentionally uncovered part of a major operation--be it a conspiracy by a rich cabal or simply a serendipitous collusion by those with similar goals--by certain people and that's the reason the vultures are reacting like this even now?

These bastards aren't just being opportunistic and greedy here--they are all, for their own various ends, actively trying to destroy.
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It's not coincidence that they've turned
"conspiracy" into a snarl word/thought-terminating cliche whenever someone notices a pattern of practice.

It certainly keeps their illusion of legitimacy when the denotation of "conspiracy" (two or more parties collaborating to commit some illicit or illegal deed) is tainted by the connotation (black helicopters in the water turning the frogs gay).

Always ask that forbidden question: cui bono?
 
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FAQnews Correspondent said:
I agree with your list except for the riots. I think those were for getting people to go "wow! I sure love [company that put a message with a dark background," to bend the knee through fear, and to start erasing any semblance of national pride. The destruction and looting of the riots was secondary.
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True, but a lot of things can be accomplished with one stone toss. Two birds with one stone, and potentially a third bird in showing Trump to either be tyrannical if he took action (like people wanted) or ineffectual if he let it continue while just whining on Twitter.
 
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axfaxf said:
The hedgies seem to double, if not triple down on their shorting attempts. Objectively, it would seem like a sound strategy to wait for all of this to die down and then cash in, when the stock inevitably drops.

But r/WSB have gained 4 million new subs in 3 days and other, way larger investors might smell the blood in the water. If diamond hands are really HODLing, the shorts will bleed dry at some point.
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Well, I've donated my $300 to the cause and I'm trying to convince everyone I know (with $300 to spare) to do the same thing.

I've latched onto my share like a bulldog and I'm prepared to go down with the ship. Every dollar we pump in has massive potential against the overleveraged hedgies. I think we caught them with their pants down. If I'm wrong, I'm just out money I could afford to lose anyway.
 
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EyelessMC said:
- The lockdowns,
- The lack of actual financial support/relief to those businesses who need it,
- The riots looting and destroying everything,
- Further lockdowns and further arbitrary regulations making running those businesses to any real profit nearly impossible...
Then the vultures of Wall Street start circling the dying businesses and picking them off one-by-one in the stock market with all the money going back into the system of the wealthiest of the wealthy and their financiers.

These bastards aren't just being opportunistic and greedy here--they are all, for their own various ends, actively trying to destroy.
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Yep, as i said -- i think this is really about the land and destruction of retail.

Too many thing fit: how about "the great reset", where they're literally laying out what they're planning on doing?
Influx of immigration? Racial Tensions. Eat the bugs. Live in the tube. No carbon emmisions while china destroys the ocean. Massive job losses, but no stimulus check. Market delusions, massive inflation.

As the prophet Sam Hydeostradamus said "This country isn't dying, it's being killed. And those people that are killing it have names and addresses"

Who benefits:
- hedgies get money from shorts
- company goes to shit, bankrupt, more people without jobs
- company assets and land get scooped up just like banks made a killing of buying/reselling foreclosed houses after 2008. Btw, right now house prices are through the roof? Who do you think is buying all those houses and land?
- more product falling under control of Amazon, et al.


As I said, I think this was a planned 'controlled demolition' of retail to further solidify their control and destroy any small remains of community. Everything under a Google or Amazon banner. Complete control.
 
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world of shit said:
Yep, as i said -- i think this is really about the land and destruction of retail.

Too many thing fit: how about "the great reset", where they're literally laying out what they're planning on doing?
Influx of immigration? Racial Tensions. Eat the bugs. Live in the tube. No carbon emmisions while china destroys the ocean. Massive job losses, but no stimulus check. Market delusions, massive inflation.

As the prophet Sam Hydeostradamus said "This country isn't dying, it's being killed. And those people that are killing it have names and addresses"

Who benefits:
- hedgies get money from shorts
- company goes to shit, bankrupt, more people without jobs
- company assets and land get scooped up just like banks made a killing of buying/reselling foreclosed houses after 2008. Btw, right now house prices are through the roof? Who do you think is buying all those houses and land?
- more product falling under control of Amazon, et al.


As I said, I think this was a planned 'controlled demolition' of retail to further solidify their control and destroy any small remains of community. Everything under a Google or Amazon banner. Complete control.
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Goddamn do I hope you're right.
 
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FAQnews Correspondent said:
I agree with your list except for the riots. I think those were for getting people to go "wow! I sure love [company that put a message with a dark background," to bend the knee through fear, and to start erasing any semblance of national pride. The destruction and looting of the riots was secondary.
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Riots had a multipurpose effect:

de-moralising to the population, further mistrust/hatred of police (on both sides now), Small businesses are even further fucked, fear of each other (atomization of individual vs community), racial hatred/white hatred, and lastly: A show of force from Antifa to let everyone know the shot that the elities support and back them.
 
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EyelessMC said:
UNHOLY HELL! THAT'S IT!!
Certain businesses were given preference during the initial Covid lockdowns and others with the means began to spike in profits. It could be coincidence and gamblers taking advantage, but what if the protracted lockdowns AND the riots were part of a three-pronged attack of consolidating more power in the hands of a few? Consider also what's going on with farmland and Monsanto with Biden's executive orders and suddenly I'm getting a little convinced this was somewhat, to some degree, coordinated.

- The lockdowns,
- The lack of actual financial support/relief to those businesses who need it,
- The riots looting and destroying everything,
- Further lockdowns and further arbitrary regulations making running those businesses to any real profit nearly impossible...
Then the vultures of Wall Street start circling the dying businesses and picking them off one-by-one in the stock market with all the money going back into the system of the wealthiest of the wealthy and their financiers.

This echoes so much like during gamergate when we were talking about how incestuous fag journos were and suddenly fell down a rabbit hole of DARPA, Bill Gate's connections, Common Core, the Obama administration, etc. Genuine conspiracies we had no idea were going on but stumbled into simple because out autism kept going.

What if WSB has unintentionally uncovered part of a major operation--be it a conspiracy by a rich cabal or simply a serendipitous collusion by those with similar goals--by certain people and that's the reason the vultures are reacting like this even now?

These bastards aren't just being opportunistic and greedy here--they are all, for their own various ends, actively trying to destroy.
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I would like to remind everyone that technically there are no laws against the act cannibalism in the United States for no reason whatsoever.
 
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