It’s discrediting valid concerns against card-payments. It’s invalidating how great cash is.
It’s when the worst person you know makes a good point.
And things now are so Culture-Wars-y, nobody makes solid analyses any more, that when the far-right say cards are bad, everybody jumps to thinking cards are good.
It’s part of the far-right’s playbook to co-opt left-leaning criticism of the system to twist it for their own means and losing the essence of the argument.
they’ve always done that
They will always correctly identify the pincers and the stinger, but they will never mention a scorpion.
If its the same point, and you agree with it, wouldn’t it be stupid to not agree with the same point, but said by someone else you hate?