If I have to see one more Talking Head wheeled onto MSM "news" programs, saying that bitcoin "is not backed by anything" and it "uses more energy than a small country"....
It boggles the mind that so few people will bother to do even the smallest investigations sufficient to realise the fallacy of these statements. Especially so if you know you're going to be asked for your 'informed' opinion to be spewed across national TV.
It really does go to prove that Henry Ford was right about the levels of ignorance:
"It is perhaps well enough that the people of the nation do not know or understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
and Andrew Jackson:
"In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people.....are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions."
And from Mark Twain, which currently sums up my reasoning for not engaging with such people anymore:
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."
People think there is some type of invisible safety net for every problem in life these days and that you are guaranteed to reach old age, be healthy and always be given money from the government when you struggle. Keep playing the lottery because you will probably win it one day. In fact it's best to start making plans already and we have plenty examples of people who got rich obediently playing for years.
Just watch CNN / BBC for this info, wash your hands and keep 1.5 metres apart, take your covid jabs and you will just be hunky dory. Nothing will ever happen to you as long as you comply.
Oh but don't buy Bitcoin. Because Bitcoin is not backed by anything and uses more energy than a country. It is awful, don't go near it.
If you are white heterosexual male, make sure you knee before every sporting event because you used to be such a racist and this is the only way to prove you now comply.
It almost makes you turn into an obedient alpaca all this ridiculous nonsense.