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Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed... by roenxi on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:28AM (#42928792)
>_> Cheeky FYI, but cognitive dissonance is the "mental disturbance people feel when they realize their cognitions and actions are inconsistent or contradictory" [0]. While I'm certainly not above that, in this case I don't think I even made and defended enough claims here for them to be contradictory in principle and you don't seem to be arguing that. Consider going with the more straightforward "I disagree!" or "That isn't correct!".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

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Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed... by motorest on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:10PM (#42936294)
It is a textbook case of cognitive dissonance. For example, you are somehow trying to hold contradictory claims on how Bitcoin's clear failure as a currency is somehow a sign of it's success.

The mental disturbance angle is also compounded by the far-fetched conspiracy theories on how El Salvador ditched Bitcoin because "the man" wants to kill it.

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