Please leave the merit-based, incredibly fair and rational system of capital known as "Wall Street" alone. This just isn't fair what is being done to them: https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1354464982981877762

The only possible way to have that above-excerpted reaction to the Gamestop/Reddit rebellion is if you grew up coddled in a very elite environment that somehow got you to believe -- all the way into adulthood -- this child-like mythology about American culture and politics:

What these kinds of short sellers do is legal, I guess - people that rich can make pretty anything legal through their control of government - but what they do is often grotesque and harms a lot of people and this time they got fucked by their own rules: https://twitter.com/Anthonysmdoyle/status/1354476322324672514

Many of the Redditors at r/wallstreetbets do not believe this CNBC report that Melvin Capital closed out its position in Gamestop, thinking they're pretending to have done so to cause people to cash in & relieve the pressure. That's why they won't sell https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1354386200157675521

If it's true that Melvin Capital really didn't get out of Gamestop, but leaked that it did to manipulate others to sell, would that -- as @Jamie_Maz asks -- constitute illegal market manipulation? Seems worth looking into.

I don't agree with all of this but this is a good article on the political energy and righteous passion -- as opposed to financial motives -- driving much of the Gamestop/Reddit attack: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-27/gamestop-short-squeeze-is-rage-against-the-financial-machine