Well, it's unfortunate that Citadel will make money off of the silver trade, but screwing with hedge funds is not the main reason I deal in precious metals. I accumulate in small amounts as a hedge against inflation and have a slight speculative interest in a currency reset as speculated on by the FOFOA/Freegold gang. The zeitgeist of the moment was just what pushed me off of my indecision to accumulate more at this time. I also don't deal in SLV and GLD at all, this is just wall street shenanigans and it is a fairly trivial matter for hedge funds and central banks to take the spot price to 0 if they so desire. I view the physical market as a call against the entire fiat currency system, and if the paper market becomes too far divorced from the physical market, nobody cares any more what the wall street price is and the game is essentially over. Then you get into issues of national security and confiscations if the system really starts breaking down. The gamble Citadel is taking is that they can get the price high enough that a tsunami of supply suddenly hits the markets before things get too out of hand and this ends the supply shortage. This could end up being a pyrrhic victory for them if they don't play it very carefully and things get out of hand. Silver is kind of small potatoes and I think a prolonged supply squeeze would have to move into the gold market before the fiat system is really threatened, because that is where the big boys play, but there is a progression here as layers of market manipulation are revealed. Since I'm what could be considered ultra-long physical metals, it may take me a while to make my money back on this latest trade, but most of my silver was purchased between $15-20 and I see limited downside risk even if they crash the market in context of the long-forecasted economic collapse that seems to be drawing near. There's also the fact that the Cassiopaeans have consistently recommended precious metals as a reasonable investment.
I don't think there's any long term future in GME or dogecoin. It's just a form of amusement and seeing how long the Fed makes the financiers sweat before they come in and rescue them as they always do. The "little people" will pay for their insolence via inflation soon enough.