>>12062278>Even if the short-ladder - which is illegal as fuck,We've already seen them sacrifice RobinHood and other brokers; forcing only-sell, imposing stop-losses on people who gave no stop-loss instructions, etc.
>but let's assume no consequences -A fair assumption; their illegality will likely be hidden behind the pomp of the above cases.
>succeeds for another month, there still hasn't been enough volume to cover shorts.True.
And *that* is what the DIAMOND HANDS meme is about.
>They might figure out a way to do it, but we'd see the fucking volume to know it's happened and we haven't yet.Well, considering the reason they're in this situation is they shorted/naked-shorted more shares than actually exist; which is quite arguably fraud.
>So, until then, they're just getting bled by interest charges.I would be unsurprised if "special deals" were in play to keep that from happening, or at least happening as badly as it *should*.
>That's the factsI agree with you.