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One of the things about the whole "/r/WallStreetBets buys $GME shares" situation that I find interesting is how unifying it seems to be across the ideological spectrum.
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Ideological libertarians who are true-believers in markets like it because it's the free market working as intended. Normie dems like it because it lets them criticize normie Republicans for hypocrisy for not being as committed to free markets as the libertarians.
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Socialists and other leftists like it because it's rich people taking the losses. Gamergater-type alt-right trolls like it because lol memes, it shows the power of internet subcultures, and they get to complain about Discord cracking down on their hate-speech.
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Anarchists like it for similar reasons to socialists, but in a more chaotic "burn-it-all-down" type way. Pretty much the only people who DON'T like it are the hedge funds themselves.
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Certain leftists have (justified) concerns of a red-brown alliance possibly helping the right wing, & Ben Norton thinks there's such a thing as a "blue-black-brown" alliance, but this is larger than either of those: it's a red-brown-blue-black-yellow alliance against hedge funds.
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Occupy Wall Street really should have leaned harder into the "We are the 99%" motto, as there's real potential for cross-ideology unity there.
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