Oh, there's no doubt. Any hate monger group will tell you that the way to bond another group is to find someone to mutually hate and find inferior. Hitler used this tactic to bond Germany after they had been decimated after WWI. No telling how many people bought shares because I suggested they not. It's why I continued trying so hard to convince them they weren't thinking through this properly. I sure didn't want to be a reason for buying! Whoever came up with the expression, "bashers only bash good stocks" was a marketing genius! Slurpy and his crew knew what buttons to push. Greedy overcomes all.