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 The New York Times is running news stories about recent neo-nazi demonstration and arrests in Nashville. 
Assuming it's not a coincidence that the Bitcoin conference (including Trump and maybe Musk) is going to be in Nashville this week - and yes this is an assumption I'm making for the sake of this exploration - which of the following seems most likely? ("Some parts of all of them" is a perfectly valid answer)

- neo Nazis feel that this (BTC conference week) is a good environment for them
- NYT is doing some pre-astroturfing so that they can connect Bitcoin/freedom tech to Nazis and the far right
- mostly a coincidence 

And before you go twisting my words, I'm NOT saying the neo-nazi activity was unconcerning or overblown or something. But I am speculating on which parties invovled here are leveraging the Nashville context for their own narrative goals. Harming Bitcoin and Nostr in the process, naturally.