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If the belief persists despite all evidence, to maintain ingroup cohesion, yes.
This is not about individuals. This is about your "community." This whole place seems to exist to aggressively reject the possibility that one specific stock going up for a while was a fluke.
hmm... interesting perspective.
but what you say fails to address the part where incumbent financial institutions colluded to disable any further purchasing of shares of GME (and also other stocks, it was in fact not just one specific stock) during that supposed fluke where these stocks were going up for a while. I think the situation is more complex than how you have presented it.
One website panicked to stop a flood of misinformed newbies from instantly bankrupting it. Y'all picked that site because it let people spend the website's money. New users could immediately buy stock - without waiting to transfer money from their bank, to a broker. The trades were made with the website's money. And thousands of proudly ignorant randos bought the exact same junk.
Half the website's capital was suddenly tied to one struggling brick-and-mortar game store - the only stock that is in this community's name.
You're casting their effort to avoid losing everything in your get-rich-quick scheme as some childishly simple morality play. As if the fact they lost everything anyway proves them wrong. As if vague but menacing powers-that-be will be brought to heel if you just keep sticking together and clinging to your sliver of a dying retailer.
This is narrative addiction. It's the same as every hype cycle that ever flopped, but with modern technology connecting people to share denialist rhetoric, so nobody ever admits they've been had. When it was a bunch of peasants clutching tulip-bulbs, they couldn't help but look around and feel that something went wrong. But with communities like this - that recognition might never land. You can keep scoffing at critics that Wall Street is bad, actually, and therefore your negligible participation in it is going to show them what-for. You can build interpersonal connections on assertions that your shared actions cannot possibly have been a mistake. That so long as you keep the same rituals, you will be vindicated, no matter how thoroughly your predictions fail to align with observable reality.
We have a word for that. And it's not "scientist."
I'm so glad you wanna save me from my cult investment. I should just go sell right now 😭 /s
You know, every cent I invested was money I could afford to lose. Not one person in this "cult" has told me to invest more than I could lose. Nobody is demanding my first born here. No mandatory meetings where we ritually sacrifice a goat on a dimly candle-lit pentagram. I suppose your local comedy club is a "cult" because they like Rodney Dangerfield over George Carlin. Choosing loaded words like "cult" shows your bias and disinterest in having constructive conversation. But keep up the white knight crusade against GME 👏 Hope you're at least getting paid to spread FUD.
There is a guy in this thread who got evicted.
Reaching a conclusion is not bias.
I'm not against this company. I don't care about this company. I'm only talking about this insular community's bizarre devotion to it - and bluntly describing what that looks like, to someone who's not literally invested in a particular outcome.
Whether or not you all get rich, somehow, all of this will have been textbook cult-like behavior: contrarian explanations of obvious problems, obsession with private vocabulary, grand claims of fighting evil (world-endingly strong and all-encompassing, yet defeatable with this one weird trick), etc., etc., etc. This is all kind of dumb. That's the long and short of the problem. It's not a threat to anyone but people who absofuckinglutely invested more than they could afford, on your glowing advice and grand claims, and it's almost certainly going to end with a bunch of folks clutching certificates for five percent of nothing.
That you think anyone gives enough of a shit to pay people to make fun of you is itself a clue. No nation-state or megacorporation cares about your death-grip on a slice of a Radio Shack also-ran. It says a lot about the mindset of this group, that you suggest persecution fantasies whenever bystanders ask 'what the fuck are you doing' and are unimpressed by the answer.
you sure do have a lot of opinions
Why did you write this except to be annoying?
What do you think trolling is, if not that?