re: #8 jamesfirecat

So the good news in all this Gamestop back and forth is that now if they ever do a remake of Trading Places, the script writers won’t have to think too hard about how best to resolve the climax in Act 3!

I hate to actually you, but I’m going have to actually you.

The only reason the scam worked in Trading Places was that it was a small cabal working below the radar to bring down the Brothers, who thought they were invincible. It couldn’t be done that way today. Too much data available to too many people.

But here is where God is an iron:

The same Brothers from Trading Places who felt they were invulnerable until they were successfully penetrated by a small group of motivated angry hackers (and that is what they were), are the same titans of Wall Street who could not imagine until this week in the modern day, that a large, independent, amorphous, internet-connected group of investors could gang up on them and fuck them right up the patootie.

It’s really kind of glorious, and you can bet that consortiums to fleece hedge funds will pop up like mushrooms this spring.