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There is too much overlap with the tropes found in communities who want to believe in aliens and interdimensional beings to take the Gamestop saga seriously. S

There is too much overlap with the tropes found in communities who want to believe in aliens and interdimensional beings to take the Gamestop saga seriously. So many appeals to emotion and ignorance, and the investment in a particular outcome has made the reddit groups around this topic indistinguishable from people who are ride or die Trumpers impervious to the falsification of their bad ideas. There is no longer a rubric of reasonable evaluation of new relevant information. The festering wound of people like Ken Griffin effortlessly getting away with their crimes has gone on for so long that has radicalized people to interpret every new piece of info through the lens of being the first crumplings of an eventual avalanche of retribution that has been promised to them.

59percentmore 5mo ago
Well, yeah. It's an incredibly silly series of events. That said, I've lived through too much internet culture to confuse "seeing people drink the kool-aid" for a useful heuristic of if the cool heads who originated a notion were right. Weird ideas attract weirdos. Doubt the bunny-ears lawyers at your peril.
snapcaster 5mo ago
>The festering wound of people like Ken Griffin effortlessly getting away with their crimes You've fallen for it too, what "crimes" is he guilty of exactly?
- flyingcircus3 5mo ago
  I don't believe in the theory, I'm stating that I understand the theory to largely revolve around powerful players manipulating markets, such as robinhood to disallow buying GameStop in January 21. In my view, GameStop enjoyers are so thoroughly radicalized and primed to expect another short squeeze, that the content of any given days news, related to GameStop or not, is regularly deciphered as clear sign that of its arrival. A large part of that certainty has seems to stem from the fact that canonically guilty people like Griffin, remaining free, an ever present festering reminder of their grievance.

59percentmore 5mo ago

Well, yeah. It's an incredibly silly series of events. That said, I've lived through too much internet culture to confuse "seeing people drink the kool-aid" for a useful heuristic of if the cool heads who originated a notion were right. Weird ideas attract weirdos. Doubt the bunny-ears lawyers at your peril.

snapcaster 5mo ago

>The festering wound of people like Ken Griffin effortlessly getting away with their crimes You've fallen for it too, what "crimes" is he guilty of exactly?

flyingcircus3 5mo ago
I don't believe in the theory, I'm stating that I understand the theory to largely revolve around powerful players manipulating markets, such as robinhood to disallow buying GameStop in January 21. In my view, GameStop enjoyers are so thoroughly radicalized and primed to expect another short squeeze, that the content of any given days news, related to GameStop or not, is regularly deciphered as clear sign that of its arrival. A large part of that certainty has seems to stem from the fact that canonically guilty people like Griffin, remaining free, an ever present festering reminder of their grievance.