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Let's save these "as bad as the capitol riots!" hot takes until WSB organizes a protest that takes over Citadel HQ.

Trading securities and/or advocating for a free & fair market in which to trade those securities =/= literal violent insurrection.

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I'm absolutely not saying it's as bad as the capitol rights, I'm saying I'm seeing the same disinformation, unsubstantiated claims and absolute freedom from fact based reasoning we saw in those other communities. I made it a point to go and look at the communities that were pro-Trump in the aftermath of the election. There are clear similarities. I'm not saying it's the same thing, but I think we need to seriously take a step back and look at what's actually happening, and what's happening isn't a level headed discussion about free markets. It's a conspiracy riddled hysteria where many people are claiming they're never going to sell a crappy retail stock for what can quite clearly be understood to be emotional reasoning.

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