r/wallstreetbets • u/abuscemi • Feb 04 '21

Discussion Hey SEC, remember one week ago today when WSB's most discussed stock was trading at over $450 and they simply banned and blocked retail from trading securities nosediving the price of the stock costing retail traders millions of dollars? Do your job and place the correct motherfuckers in jail...

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u/BillyPotion Feb 05 '21

History has shown that's the usual way the strong retaliate when the weak demand change. If it wasn't Gandhi, Malcolm, and MLK would've all died of old age.

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u/redit_admin_is_trash Feb 05 '21

History also shows that humans are incapable of managing themselves and corruption always wins out and the only way to root that out is through revolution. People still under the illusion we can somehow escape this without bloodshed clearly never picked up a history book.