I'm not sure if this is supposed to be posted here but I'm not sure this would be welcome in c/wallstreetbets (lmao) either. It's just sad and dispiriting. Not really gonna say more about this because it's been pretty draining tbh.
Also, before someone says "well I don't think it's WRONG to talk about this, and I don't think it's praxis, and y'know I had to pay rent and spent some money on this and I just like laughing at Melvin eating shit and...." cool, I'm not talking about you, you know which people I am talking about.
Yeah I completely agree that it's good for the message. The issue that I was pointing out in my comment was that some people on the left are seeing this event, which the vast majority of people are isolated from, as THE big turning point when the memory of this event will be broadly gone in a month. Some predominantly petit bourgeois redditors making some money on the stock market and getting fucked over by Wall St. really isn't the banner to unite the working class under that the low-praxis chapos seem to think it is
This, I agree with. If covid couldn't kickstart a literal revolution, I have no hope that one week of stock market shenanigans will manage it. All I can do is whisper in the ears of my liberal friends, "don't you think this has broader implications about our capitalist system?"