Why Bukele missed Bitcoin 2022: He’s actually the devil
28 sats \ 2 comments \ @PlumSauce 8 Apr 2022 bitcoin freebie
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-04-08/mass-arrests-of-salvadorans-accused-of-being-in-gangs?_amp=true A lot of juxtaposition of him taking away civil liberties and pushing Bitcoin.
Gangs have been a problem and there was another killing spree. He declared a state of emergency and took away some rights and some people may have been falsely imprisoned and, oh by the way, he’s really big into Bitcoin, which has been a major flop for him.
Honestly, it sounds like a hit piece to make people relate Bitcoin to anti-freedom.
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65 sats \ 0 replies \ @sgornick 8 Apr 2022
Tangential, but ... I thought I would share. The author of this LA Times article?
She first learned of bitcoin from me. I was having a conversation with a politician she was trailing, and the topic of bitcoin came up. She listened but was mostly uninterested in it, as far as I could tell.
Anyway, she's written a couple of hit pieces on Bukele. That's her job, ... make him look bad for the piece of shit news media she works for. And she is a good writer, and does a very good job at doing what they pay her to do.
As El Salvador adopts Bitcoin, its young president is dismantling democracy https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/as-el-salvador-adopts-bitcoin-its-young-president-is-dismantling-democracy/
El Salvador’s president buys bitcoins ‘naked,’ he boasts. His experiment is costing his nation millions https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/el-salvadors-president-buys-bitcoins-naked-he-boasts-his-experiment-is-costing-his-nation-millions/
So anyway, I don't take a single thing she writes seriously.
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47 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 8 Apr 2022
I am not making excuses for Bukele's heavy hand in gang violence but I live in one of the most dangerous cities in the world when it comes to murder and I can tell you there is no other way to deal with it under a fiat system
Once gangsterism takes hold its pretty hard to weed it out, even the heavy hand is only a temporary solution, it just further drives them underground and radicalises them. As long as the profit motive in gangsterism is a higher premium than you can get elsewhere these movements will keep growing
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