>but saying the president of El Salvador is ‘cringe’ is so low effort it’s insulting

I know you mean this coming from a mental image that you (and most of us) have of a head of state.

But really, have a look at the guy and his behavior. Cringe is a perfectly apt adjective.

After the last two presidents America has elected, having an opinion on the heads of state of other countries seems a little bit rich. A clown, a geriatric, what's next? Clown 2? The imf is and has always been the greatest repressive force preventing development and state sovereignty. Nothing good comes from the imf ever. Especially if you're not in the west

Just because we’ve had some characters as president doesn’t mean we can’t have opinions. Only countries with a history of perfect presidents can have opinions? And by this logic, rich people shouldn’t comment on the imf, and anyone on the internet on hacker news is comparatively well off in the grand scheme.

If having a bad leader means we can’t comment on other presidents, and all countries have had rich powerful people and organizations abuse their monetary power, how is it consistent to be okay criticizing external rich and powerful organizations but not leaders?

> hacker news is comparatively well off in the grand scheme.

Get out, I was reading hacker news on one meal a day years ago.

No prejudice.

> Nothing good comes from the imf ever. Especially if you're not in the west

The IMF bailout and the forced economic reforms of 1991 are responsible for the decades of growth, development and poverty alleviation that India experienced.

The IMF is literally a way for a country to acknowledge their mistakes and a process to get better through loans ( in a lot of cases).

Greece was especially bad for example and at the state out was then, it should have never been allowed in the EU either.

The IMF helped in return for reforms which Greece didn't really liked and isn't visible in the short term.

But it is a long term vision and not a short term one.

Greece is an example that there's no difference between the west and others. The IMF, is believe, makes no difference.

( Just my opinion)

> Nothing good comes from the imf ever. Especially if you're not in the west

“Global capitalist class” not “west”.

As a native english speaker I found it rather trivial to parse without even trying. There's commas, which separate the couple of clauses. The direction of the sentence doesn't change or anything like that. It's not as if a comma should have actually been a semicolon. 'and shortly' could have been a new sentence but honestly it connects better with the conjunction.

'cringe' is great as it injects some emotion to an otherwise very dry and long sentence.

Your real complaint should not have been about the construction of this sentence, but at the complete failure of the article to connect bitcoin to this latest economic disaster. In fact some points of the article highlight the irrelevance. I didn't read the source article this one points to, which might actually connect the dots. This one, though, is pure clickbait.

I'm also a native English speaker, and I'm totally with you on both points.

Sure, this use of "cringe" in the adjective position is Gen-Z (I guess) and in a way itself "cringe". But overall I found the sentence to be (while clearly a run-on) perfectly readable.

Saying the president of El Salvador is ‘cringe’ is so low effort it’s insulting.

So you're reading a would-be BuzzFeed clone site called "Futurism" and you're surprised to find your intelligence insulted?

They could buy back their own bonds at these discounted rates, no? It could be a good strategy to make a lot of noise about Bitcoin to crash prices and buy their own debt back cheaply.