I realise that any advice here can be taken with a grain of salt and not considered official financial advice.
If I’ve got a couple grand in savings not doing anything, should I buy GME in this dip before the short squeeze? What’s the worst case scenario in terms of losing the money?
as always, depends on objective
physical silver will provide long term preservation of wealth and purchasing power against devalued fiat currency. May provide capital gains, especially if price suppression is removed. Will also remove inventory from the system and put make it more difficult for the shorts to cover.
paper silver (eg SLV) will be less volatile than physical. It also builds the requirement for holders to add to their vault and so again can put pressure on the shorts (not as effective as buying physical for that purpose). likely a long term core holding if you go that direction
Miners are very volatile and can appreciate much more than physical IF you hit the right one, but very risky. Purpose here would be short term gains.