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A skeptic's counterpoint: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/19/establishm...

That says nothing about this article, which is basically "lol, I can do trivial financial analysis to strip the anonymity of Bitcoin. Think how much more information government experts at tracking money laundering have."

That is not a "counterpoint" to anything, there is zero mention of bitcoin, blockchain or anything cryptocurrency related within. I think it's pretty clear you're here to push a political agenda.

You can check my karma and how long I've been around, in addition to my comments.

Anyone who does this will know that your claim as to why I'm here doesn't hold water.

The site you linked: Strategic Culture Foundation, a Moscow think tank run by Yuri Profokiev, a former head of Moscow’s Communist Party and member of the Soviet Politburo.

And happens to be strongly pro-Trump. How curious.

Really? this article[1] doesn't seem pro-Trump at all.

[1]https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/18/stripping-...

That's not counterpoint, it's just typical right wing propaganda.

why is right full of 'typical' propaganda while left is honest ppl with verifiable facts. seems curious

> He says stories like this work because they fit into existing right-wing conspiracy theories.

>"The people wanted to hear this," he says. "So all it took was to write that story. Everything about it was fictional: the town, the people, the sheriff, the FBI guy. And then ... our social media guys kind of go out and do a little dropping it throughout Trump groups and Trump forums and boy it spread like wildfire."

>Coler says his writers have tried to write fake news for liberals — but they just never take the bait.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/50...

Becuase it's got nothing to do with left or right, just true or false.

The left just seems to value the truth more than the right. That is being vividly illustrated by our current president.

>it's got nothing to do with left or right

> left just seems to value the truth more than the right.

huh?

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