Not really a victim and certainly not a fool. When people try to borrow money to dump a coin to obvilion amongst a straight up smear propaganda campaign because they cannot roll back the clock, tech and innovation still can't be beat.
You realize people have borrowed XMR for shorting too right? Three guesses who they borrowed from (not recently and now repaid).
And for that matter, XMR has also been subjected to of
a lot of FUD and trolling (and as I said shorting and dumping). Perhaps it would be a lot higher were it not for that! It is certainly possible, yet I don't run around saying "XMR is only #13 due to FUD!" Otherwise it would be higher than DRK!
Claiming with high confidence that everything that happens is due to some hostile and deliberate scheme without being able to prove that degree of causality (and you can't because no one can prove the reasons for what happens in these markets) denotes a degree of paranoia, delusion, victimization complex, or something along those lines. It can't be entirely rational for the reason I stated.