I don't think this was a calculated move at all. Otherwise why block the access to the public market if the intent was indeed to crash the market and blame it on internet? Just "let it happen". But they didn't do that, they tried to survive.
Now, however, what is certain, is... "never let a serious crisis go to waste", they are going to try to turn the situation to their advantage ultimately, they always do
Now, regarding math here, this https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortselling.asp
>Key Takeaways
>Short selling occurs when an investor borrows a security and sells it on the open market, planning to buy it back later for less money.
>Short sellers bet on, and profit from, a drop in a security's price. This can be contrasted with long investors who want the price to go up.
>Short selling has a high risk/reward ratio: It can offer big profits, but losses can mount quickly and infinitely due to margin calls.
I don't think we are disagreeing. The short selling was simple greed in the first place. They were trying to rape the system for all they could. This is nothing new this is the game they have been playing ever since we went off the gold standard if not since the dawn of civilization.
I'm talking about their counter moves since WSB caught them shitting in the cookie jar. If they really wanted to kill this we would have seen three things: 1. would have been arrested by the sec/FBI for market manipulation. 2. They would have banned /r/WallStreeBets for illegal activities and violation of TOS, and 3. Media spin would be very different. It would all have been about how is in deep shit and is going to federal prison for a long time. They could have done these things all they way up until close of the markets on Wednesday, long after the WSB retards had already 'won' and it woudl have all collapsed. WSB autists were willing to loose a big pile of money to stick it to the man. They are not willing to rot in federal rape-you-in-the-ass prison for the rest of their lives. This would have all evaporated like a nothing burger.
I was watching a documentary featuring an ex trader the other day. The guy recalled why he quit while he was a top dog at socgen and then nomura, essentially because he had a conscience and figured out that the very same actors who were bailed out by nation states after the 2008 crisis, started to financially attack the exact same nation states right after they saved their asses. That was the straw that broke the camel's back for him
In the end he doesn't know if there's anyone at the top of the pyramid, at the highest echelon of all this. He called it, "the beast"; the sum of all greed, of all "bad human activity" since the past 2000 years. In the sense that, men, "kings" of this or that, come and go, while the debts remain for instance. And the financial world has its own logic and it does what it does, and the pile of shit keeps piling, while everybody is "only" doing what they're supposed to do with it, compartmentalized without anyone having the full picture, nobody is really responsible while some are more responsible/guilty than others. And that's "the beast" in the end, that sort of hundreds if not thousands of years old accumulation of collective sin reaching gigantic proportions, always calling for more "sin" to keep shits afloat
It's an interesting perspective, it's sort of like internet, it's not one person, it's a sum of collective and individual actions persisting through time, creating some sort of entity we call, internet
The beast, and the mark of the beast...
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