That fact that anyone thinks the Russia-Ukraine war is purely a “money laundering front” and anything less than an act of violent aggression by an authoritarian dictator shows how out-of-touch with reality some people are.

Conspiracies and corruption exist. Of course they do!!!

But that doesn’t mean that major crises aren’t also real, and that there isn’t a “right” and “wrong” view.

Since the Cold War, the KGB-tactics around disinformation, used for sewing distrust/dissent, have so thoroughly infiltrated western social media that the same people who argue “don’t trust, verify” for their monetary technology will simp for the exact kind of authoritarianism that Bitcoin is here to prevent.

It’s fucking embarrassing and it makes it so much harder to grow adoption.

/rant