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Why is there this obsession with trying to defeat shorts in the Tesla community? Every negative comment or story about Tesla or Elon is accused of being fake ne
by kylec 8y ago
Why is there this obsession with trying to defeat shorts in the Tesla community? Every negative comment or story about Tesla or Elon is accused of being fake news purpotrated by shorts. It’s really weird, I’ve never seen it in any other community, and it doesn’t seem healthy.
- dragontamer 8y agoThere's some degree of competitive play that I think is healthy. People like to be right, and "the bulls" vs "the bears" is a common theme among investors. Where things get unhealthy is when people start to push conspiracy theories with "the shorts" controlling media. And Tesla discussions consistently cross the line into conspiracies. With that being said, this particular comment you've replied to seems relatively tame compared to what I normally see around the internet (and its tame even by the standards of this Hacker News discussion! I'm seeing some "conspiracy level" comments elsewhere in this discussion right now...) . There's nothing really wrong with claiming that the shorts were wrong on Q3 predictions IMO, as long as the author doesn't go full-on conspiracy theorist... it isn't too bad to push the classical bulls vs bears discussion which have gone on for over a century.
- drexlspivey 8y agoBecause it is the most shorted stock in the history of the stock market.
- RivieraKid 8y agoIt's not, there are and were many other stocks with higher short/long ratios.
- JaRail 8y agoWe associate shorts with all the trolls you see in Tesla threads, spreading lies about EVs, climate change, etc. It just gets old listening to that.