That’s a fair point but you short them just holding BTC. Anything beyond that is risky to yourself and supports/promotes ‘altcoins’ as a market - and particularly when m (as in this quote) encouraging others to do the same and follow their lead.

Coins are VC or corporate backed, easily manipulated and it’s always those who cant afford to lose who do.

Full disclosure - I have made some sats playing a virtual trading game where I could forsee an incoming short squeeze on a token. I’m not proud of myself and I wouldn’t do it for real.