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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

Sikto 2y ago

💯 I see this so often in other sets of public discourse as well. There are crises that deserve our attention and conflating one issue with another is not the way we should be going about it . Being skeptical is necessary, but to believe every crisis is a plot against you is not helpful for anyone.

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boston wine 2y ago

Absolutely. And it doesn’t help that there truly are corrupt incentives and hypocritical leaders, saying one thing and doing another. Makes it much harder to know who to trust and how to act, when it comes to complex questions and international issues where the “right” choice is different for different people, cultures, and regions.

But it’s no surprise that in a social world with 140-character limits and a toxic algorithm, appreciation for nuance is the first thing to go

Sikto 2y ago

🎯