That's just how the world works son. It may not align with you're particular view of what is rational, but rivalry and prestige have greater power than your worldview. And they always will.

What investigation? He saw bad financials, he did a short, he talked about the short and the financials.

There's a huge cost to hold a short position. The US SEC doesn't allow naked shorts, so you have to go through stock loan and all that. You pay money, on a continual basis, for the loan, and you have a huge potential for loss. This is not a theoretical huge loss potential, Porsche got nailed hard on a short squeeze, in Germany that did allow naked shorts at the time. Almost killed the company, and weakened it to the point of being a takeover target.

market manipulation? probably? but, you buying a stock causes perturbations in the price. Cramer foaming at the mouth can be thought of as manipulation. I don't disagree with you but i wonder where the line is.

so, these guys do not go after healthy companies and are able to kill them. it's just too pricey, too risky. There's usually a bit of fire behind the smoke.

they're criminals. they're also humans. and, unless you're going to keep the humans in prison forever until they die, or actively kill the humans, or unless you're going to ship the humans somewhere to die, they're going to get out.

what will they do once out? this "hey we expect you to rejoin productive society, but we've given you zero tools to rejoin productive society just had you around other criminals" what are they expected to do?

Unless you're going to kill every prisoner or keep every prisoner in jail for life, at some point they're going to get out.

what's going to happen with these humans once they get out? what will the human be able to do once out? will said human be desperate because their skills withered while incarcerated? will the human be desperate and have to choose crime to eat?

This is not systemic thinking.

Why do you think it's bad that GH isn't a slave to jerks?

The bottom line is that this degenerate had no contract with either NPM or GH, so the literally owed him nothing. They could have stayed neutral, but they didn't have to.

Being a jerk has consequences, even if they are not legally-mandated consequences.

He has the mind and maturity of a child. He thinks that if he insincerely apologizes to his sister it will make everything better and he'll still get that new Nintendo game he was having a tantrum over.

Because he acted like a child. He got put in time-out. What kind of hell do you live in where bad actions have no consequences?

GH does not owe anyone but paying customers an account. He gave away something for free and got pissed when people took his offer at face-value. Well, GH gave him something for free and then temporarily took it away when he proved to be a child.

People who wear safety equipment sometimes die despite their precautions. It would be illogical to mock them for doing someone sensible and rational, just because it didn't work due to some unforeseen circumstance.

Not only do these anti-vax advocates not take precautions for themselves, they also attempt to convince other people to be equally negligent. THAT deserves mocking, at a minimum. Really they should be vilified and only remembered for the evil they committed.

One of my oldest friend's mother was an anti-vaxxer. She died to COVID-19. The harm these people do is real. Someone out there convinced my friend's mother to commit suicide.

Just because something is a personal choice doesn't mean a person makes a good choice. When people advocate TO OTHERS that they make bad choices, mocking them is the LEAST we can do in retaliation. They really deserved to have been tortured to death, but at least karma got them for us.

I was using desktops as a kid before the Web was invented.

Does it need to be justified?

The question of justification is moot, as it begs the question: does it need to be justified in the first place?