1. That wasn’t a loan
2. If someone gives you counterfeit money that everyone else insists is legit, you sure as shit better spending fast on something that is actually scarce or valuable in some way.
3. This isn’t cowardly or hypocritical, it would be stupid not to.
4. The idiotic thing is to continue to use the dollar in any capacity aside from what is being dumped for useful/valuable goods on a very short time horizon.