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> Do you honestly believe this? Somehow we'll go from not being able to buy certain stocks to violence? It isn't simply that people can't buy certain stocks. I
by bart_spoon 6y ago
> Do you honestly believe this? Somehow we'll go from not being able to buy certain stocks to violence?
It isn't simply that people can't buy certain stocks. Its an accumulation of events that increasingly lead people to believe that the system is rigged against them. This extends back decades. You have to have been living under a rock to have missed the rising tide of populist sentiment over the last decade, as seen in the pro-Trump anti-establishment contingent on the right, and the explosion of pro-socialist sentiment on the far left.
This Gamestop business probably amounts to a large bucketful of water, but at a certain point, a single drop causes the dam to burst. Kicking the can down the road by saying "surely people won't resort to violence over this" all but ensures that eventually, people will.