Well, someone had to say it. The way the Extremely Online Left was treating this affair as a socialist revolution was deeply dispiriting. This excellent analysis shows how the left makes itself deeply vulnerable to right-wing co-optation. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/gamestop-wallstreetbets-twitter-populism-progressives.html

I didn't say anything at the time because I didn't fancy getting harangued for my trouble, but this bit about Elizabeth Warren--portrayed as some kind of traitor because she did her job and correctly assessed the situation--is spot on.

If you expressed any scepticism or critique of what was happening, even from a left wing perspective, you'd find yourself branded a hedge-fund apologist. And there were some very smart people doing this!

There are isolated stories of working-class people making bank on GameStop, paying off medical debt and more. But this is no more an endorsement of WSB than poor people winning state lotteries is a validation of *that* system.

Rewards for the lucky, plucky few, with losses and debt for the rest, are not revolutionary. It's just more capitalism.

And WSB wasn't exactly hiding its ideological colours here.