10/ Blowing up short positions is fair game, but if that becomes weaponized by state actors that may lead to a good deal more chaos than anyone realizes now. This activity should be watched for signs of large scale manipulation, and merging with existing...
11/ influence campaigns such as QAnon or similar efforts. This will evolve in real time, and Steve Bannon isn’t done trying to make his stupid “Fourth Turning” happen. This is all on his radar now. Expect chaos. Disinfo beat folks, take note. We were warned.
12/ Here’s the 2008 @WIRED piece about Bannon, Pierce, and their imaginary goods arbitrage business — funded by Goldman Sachs. https://www.wired.com/2008/11/ff-ige/ 
14/ And Musk has been a key figure in the WSB activity, and in driving animus towards specific holders of short positions. Many analysts have wondered if BTC and TSLA are not also being manipulated by similar kinds of campaigns, and some unspecified whales.
15/ There is also increasing pressure for influence campaigns to be self-supporting, and several analysts pointed out today that the GME activity is a blueprint for how to do this. It’s not pump-and-dump if it’s against short-holders, seems to be the current consensus.
17/ Posobiec pumped the GME situation constantly the last 24 hours in his foreign influence campaign, taking every opportunity to make fun of the Biden admin, and suggest the market would crash. But this is just bros makin’ dough, yeah?
18/ QAnon and the Jan 6 crew seem to have two poles, organizationally: the Steve Bannon wing and the Roger Stone wing. It certainly looks like the swarm of Jan 6 is something that Bannon is interested in repeating, manipulating finance/business/media and gov’t in the process.
19/ And look, I get it, this is a fun story with little guys and real villains, and it’s fun to throw in $100 and see what happens. It’s also important to know how this tactic may be incorporated into influence campaigns, now and in the future, with unexpected consequences.
20/ Financial Times notes that many of the “Reddit Bros” are supporters of the “alt-right.” That’s a generalization; but there is overlap between alt-right, gamergate, and other online swarms also leveraged by Bannon previously. https://www.ft.com/content/ac7389f1-41d8-46b6-bc42-32ac603b7f91
21/ And as @1D_Nasty points out it looks like some very established Wall Street players (i.e. BlackRock) are going to make out very nicely here. Wonder who will get out first? The whale or the minnows? 🐳 🐟 https://twitter.com/1d_nasty/status/1354794931882225667
22/ Everyone’s favorite scion weighed in with this endorsement of the campaign, too. Just an old fashioned David vs. Goliath tale... DJT Jr. standing up for the little guy once again! https://twitter.com/donaldjtrumpjr/status/1354793103090212865?s=21
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