Comment by Binch101 on 27/01/2021 at 04:10 UTC

438 upvotes, 7 direct replies (showing 7)

View submission: /r/wallstreetbets is making international news for counter-investing Wall Street firms that want to see GameStop's stock collapse. The palpable excitement is off the charts.

I'm not the biggest fan of thr WSB culture and dick waggery HOWEVER... Random ppl fucking up wall street in such a way that hedge funds lose a shit ton of money? Hell fucking yea!!! Rich ppl losing money they don't deserve is the funniest shit ever

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Comment by AFK_Tornado at 27/01/2021 at 06:30 UTC

423 upvotes, 9 direct replies

The most punk thing I've read in years came from this.

"WE CAN STAY RETARDED LONGER THAN YOU CAN STAY SOLVENT"

Some of them are going full on Samson to destroy Melvin.

Comment by [deleted] at 27/01/2021 at 08:39 UTC

56 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Right? A bunch of idiots stole mom's credit card and now wall street is on fire

You love to see it

Comment by lilahking at 27/01/2021 at 17:20 UTC

9 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I'm rooting for WSB? Is this reality?

If 2020 is disaster year, is 2021 the clown year?

Comment by MagicUnicornLove at 27/01/2021 at 10:27 UTC

-2 upvotes, 4 direct replies

The trouble is more of them will lose money than the hedge funds.

Honestly, I'm a little confused about that subreddit. It's so intensely "for the lolz" that there's no way it's all a joke--these dudes (and it's definitely mostly dudes) are undoubtedly just as stupid and immature as they pretend to be.

Not to mention the ableist slurs (it's taken me awhile, but calling someone a "retard" isn't cool, nor is associating autism with poor decision making).

(My brother has apparently "made" a few grand in the past few days. I had no idea he followed this shit.)

Comment by [deleted] at 27/01/2021 at 20:42 UTC*

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

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Comment by ProposalWaste3707 at 27/01/2021 at 19:32 UTC

-1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

This is so stupid. The people who get hurt by this won't be the professional investors who know how to cover their asses, it will be the thousands of suckers who bought into the meme and can't afford to lose what they'll lose.

A shit ton of regular retail investors are going to get wiped out by this, not the hedge funds.

Comment by moeburn at 27/01/2021 at 15:22 UTC

-8 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Random ppl fucking up wall street in such a way that hedge funds lose a shit ton of money? Hell fucking yea!!! Rich ppl losing money they don't deserve is the funniest shit ever

This is more like one rich person using a bunch of random ppl on Reddit, combined with bot farms and propaganda techniques, to fuck over another rich person, while all the random ppl on Reddit are convinced they're fighting back against rich people when really they're just hurting one hedge fund and being used by another.