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I'm saying that WSB true believers and Qanon nuts sound similar and use similar logic.


It’s really creepy how you just compare WSB to a group that half the country considers “supporters of terrorism” or literal terrorists. This is the “magical thinking” to me.

The original GME investment groupthink (Reddit always works this way, it’s lovingly called “the hivemind”) was based on complex, but logically-sound technical reasoning. A lot of due diligence was done. QAnon, as far as I know at least, was based on a post on 4chan with no verifiable evidence whatsoever. WSB’s GME buying was motivated by logic and evidence at its core, and many aspects of this logic have happened exactly as predicted (for example, the multiple gamma squeezes). Unlike QAnon, the more you learn about this, the more it makes sense (though, very obviously, the price is going to crash eventually, and these people know it). Respectfully, I think it’s disingenuous and below-board to try to baselessly compare something you don’t understand well to an alt-right hate group. Show me the solid due diligence and technical analysis that underlies QAnon, and maybe I’ll give your comparison a closer look.


Could you provide some examples?

I've never heard of WSB being linked to Qanon/trump/alt right until all this short drama started.


I'm just saying that it's all the same magical thinking. I'm not saying it's the same people, though given the demographics I suspect the overlap is bigger than we think.


Your suspicion, and you’re baseless assumptions about the “demographic” of several million Reddit users, sounds a lot like “magical thinking” without any evidence to offer.




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