what fud.

depends on how you calc inflation., count it the legit way and LTC, BTC etc are deflationary.

It is not whether or not the accusations have merit, but rather that they serve to protect the early adopters who got in cheap, after Monero moons. This of course applies only in the event that Monero does moon. So I actually consider the accusations a form of insurance.  

Why do Aussies make generalizations about Americans

First, I am not American, if by American you mean a citizen or resident of the United States. To answer your other questions.

The "official" versions are close to nine months old, and require upwards of 7 GB of RAM to run. In order to get the latest versions one actually needs to compile from source. Then Monero only requires about  60 MB of RAM and has a host of other very significant under the hood  improvements. Furthermore in both cases it is a command line interface. To use my real estate analogy the foundation is very solid but the bathroom stinks really bad. This is why one can purchase XMR at the current prices. There are other coins that have very serious problems in the "foundation" (out of sight out of mind), but the "bathrooms" are clean and beautiful. They are also more expensive.

I have been around enough to realize that 1) Freshly painted rotten wood actually sells very well in real estate. 2) A freshly painted rusted used car also sells very well, as long as the rust is hidden. Caveat Emptor.

Edit: The devs have been working very hard building a very solid foundation and cannot be bothered with "cleaning up the bathroom".

I seriously doubt that. I have seen most of the Litecoin is dead threads and I didn't notice any dominant Monero community presence. I think I commented on one such thread, but that hardly constitutes anything close to the whole idea being traced back to Monero. In fact I'm quite certain that the idea of Litecoin being in fact headed for zero, and the discussion of the idea widely on this forum, pre-dates Monero's existence by a fair bit.

(And indeed my opinion is that Litecoin is dead -- unless Bitcoin stumbles badly, which recent history suggests is a significant possibility -- in which case I do believe Litecoin could step up fairly easily as a drop-in replacement. Maybe that's another way of saying that Litecoin is not dead though.)

you've lost me here? scared of what, why, when and how 

Q.E.D.

why is it some can't count past 3?

not even slightly offended by anything on this forum.

looks like in every word i write people just looking for a reason to debate, reaching for one, which is a waste of all our time.

Yup. Take me for example. I've derided 99% of alts for years. I'm on record since well before Monero ranting about how Litecoin brings nothing to the table, and how the tweaks vs Bitcoin (supply, conf time, mining alg) are all meaningless in practice. Now that the meaninglessness of the tweaks is well understood, all Litecoin has left is this notion of a "back up" to Bitcoin. That one may actually have slight merit, but IMO, not one justifying a top-5 position.

Ever since Zerocash/coin was theorized a few years ago, I've thought that protocol-level privacy would be a niche that an alt-coin could fill, since Bitcoin would probably never implement it directly. Monero is the first coin to come along (with a reasonable launch) that can fill that niche, hence my assertion that it can attain decent market-cap in the alt space, and specifically that a more rational crypto market would likely price it higher than Litecoin.

I think there are a lot of people (especially those of us who correctly saw Bitcoin's value early on) on here who have a similar analysis; hence kelsey's feeling that Monero supporters don't like Litecoin. He's getting the causality mixed up, but there may be a correlation (not causation).

I always thought Litecoin was going to be the #2 altcoin forever because of its "Bitcoin backup" status.  Boy, those were the days of being naive.

It should be pretty obvious that the #2 coin is going to be a privacy centric coin in the future.

Monero seems poised to take that spot, as continues its slow (but steady) growth.