[dfraser992]

How did Trump persuade a mob to attack Congress and interrupt the official certification process? He only said stuff like 'fight like hell' and 'the election was stolen', but no direct orders... Manipulate people's emotions here and there, a bit at a time, and let things snowball as they will..

But what Trump did for the past 4 years ever since he said 2016 was rigged, it is basically a pump and dump. In 2016, there were social media posts about how the 2020 election was going to have to be suspended because of all the illegal immigrants who voted in 2016. yes, seriously.

It is a distributed form of propaganda that leverages the power of social media and an understanding of how mobs form. None of this is really new, but things are such now that manias like the Tulipmania can be easily kicked off without any centralized planning by a small group of conspirators or as organized like what the Nazis did.

I haven't read anything of DFV's old posts - I thought the general thesis was a valid one, maybe GME will turn itself around... but if he did periodically promote how well he was doing to a group of people primed for this like WSB is, then yeah he is guilty of something. Or maybe everything got out of hand, but he is still posting about his 23 million dollar gain...