I think that the day where I can't recognize the people I love by looking them in the eyes is a day where I will either need glasses or no longer want to be alive.

I genuinely hope you wrote this yourself because god damn, that was funny.

Dad locks eyes with his child, assumes it's a demon.

Sounds like Dad's a fucking moron.

Ah, ok. Yeah my understanding was they would short stocks that were likely to decrease in value down the line and that they chose stocks like GS or BB&B because it was unlikely for something like the wallstreetbets shenanigans to happen (emphasis on unlikely).

Again, I'm not interested in shorting. I feel like I need to emphasize that lol.

This is why I stopped being Christian. I recognized that whatever good in me would be forever obscured if I used God as a shroud, and I was 100% prone to simply saying 'sorry God, nbd yeah?' .

It's also the reason I just don't trust Christians or Christian knockoffs (Mormons). You can't.

But is that it? Isn't shorting entirely speculative and based on whether anyone is actually watching the stock closely? To my understanding, that was the reason VC firms chose businesses like Gamestop and BB&B to short. Am I wrong about this?

But.... but.... both sides! Have you considered both sides!?!

No I'm not exactly interested in shorting, I didn't get wound up with the apes on Reddit. I'm mostly just curious, I don't understand it.

Edit: I understand what shorting is, I do not understand why shorting happens to the companies it happens to.

In a similar vein to the other person responding to you, how exactly does one 'know what they're doing' on the stock market without being tied in to VC firms, etc.?

And the results? Did you died?

Shorting: Gambling

Do his ribs encase his arms?????

OP was right, this was knowledge no human was meant to have.