What are these people basing this on?

Math, Common Sense, and History say that a merchant will dump crypto as soon as they get it. Even a small (~$5,000/day) merchant would drive the price of XPY down an extra decimal place or two every day. There has to be liquidity (Buy Bid) depth enough to absorb a merchant or it simply does not work. XPY is no where near being able to support real merchants. "
Somebody" told these idiots that merchants accepting XPY will instantly drive the price up and they never stopped to think about the way it actually works.
I believe that was if they are accepting it for above market value.
Like, if you grant that a large merchant with millions of items will start accepting xpy at a $20 valuation, then I could see how that would make the price go up.
The problem is that no proof of such merchant has materialized.