Your direct statement:
“The GME surge was just straight coordinated market manipulation out in the open on the part of the redditor gang.”
The Redditors as you call them are regular stay at home investors. A poster there who noted that the GME stock was being abusively shorted even though Finra and the SEC can see it in broad daylight and did nothing to stop it as they have done nothing so many times before. So he decided to bring light to the situation hoping for someone to notice while at the same time making money. The only way the markets will change this abusive habit and misconduct by these super elite rich banks, hedge funds, etc is by truly watching and I mean daily watching and stating what the TRUE SHORT numbers are at any given moment while not allowing for any counterfeiting or Naked Short Shares to be done. No more of this bullshit where Finra waits for a Market Maker to give them their Failure to Deliver or twice monthly Short Interest Numbers via “The Honor System”. In today’s day and age this Shorting and Naked Shorting is a penchant for disaster and drives good, Legit businesses into bankruptcy because they cannot raise capital when times become tough! Just my opinion.