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X remains a large, influential real-time news and conversation platform (~half a billion combined MAUs)
- About 550 million monthly active users across X + Grok combined as of March 2026
- Up from about 520 million in December 2025
- ~ 350 million daily posts; 1.3 billion accounts active in the prior 12 months
The assumption that CBDC is a good idea because the government is always benevolent and does what's best for the people is incorrect, as demonstrated by the horrible financial mismanagement in the recent 20 years.
So the statement by the poster above holds - if you don't point a gun at a cop (figuratively), your chance of surviving contact with police if you are Black are no lower than other races.
It is also very much present in various tech and fashion/style publications - check out Ars Technica and GQ as examples.
Both owned by the corporate mouthpiece Condé Nast Inc., by the way.
These experiences make you tougher - in adult life, you will run into toxic bosses, colleagues, brutal job interviewers...
It is important to have a loving family and/or supportive friends who can provide a different point of reference.
Why would what some random person says break your heart?
Make no mistake, the Fed are not idiots, they have been trying to introduce inflation for a long time, but initially they succeeded in asset inflation only. With the help of Covid and the war, they got their wish.
But wage inflation needs to match the goods/services inflation, because without it, borrowers will be even less able to pay their debts.
In order to really stamp out inflation, the Fed would need to raise the interest rate to 10%, essentially forcing the US to declare bankruptcy.
The Fed is hoping to introduce a mild recession, which, they hope, would reduce all kinds of inflation, without them having to raise the rates above 3.5% or so.
Board members like Lady de Rothschild and Eric "you have no privacy" Schmidt publicly supported/donated to the Hillary Clinton campaign. The Rotschilds were invited by the Clintons to spend their honeymoon at the White House. The rest of the board reads like the attendees at the Bilderberg Group and the Council on Foreign Relations. The very definition of elitism, and collusion with the governments (Schmidt, Alex Karp, who is also on the board, there are also Sirs and Baronesses). "Free trade" - yes, reserved for the multinationals, Most definitely not mom-and-pop, small/medium business oriented anymore (which they used to be, before the sale).
The fact that they (probably still) have superbly written articles should not disguise the shift in their political stance.
In 2015, Pearson - a publishing company - sold its controlling stake to a bunch of corporate owners, like the Agnellis (43%) and the Rotschilds (21%), among others.
The change in their editorial direction was immediately visible (I had been a subscriber/reader for 35+ years until 2016)
Petitioning for early elections (even if impossible legally) is a far, far cry from "overthrowing the government"*.
Would you be willing to edit your original post to provide some context here?
This is a serious claim, and one that I have not seen coming from the protesters (they want an end to the Covid mandates, from what I can tell) . Can you please provide the source for your allegation?
The fact that something (temporarily) does not affect you does not mean it is not happening.
And while you don't have to buy/rent a house right now, your plumber may. So he will charge you more when (inevitably) you will need his services.
It is all linked together, and claiming that "it does not affect me" is naive.
But if I could, I would supplement it with these two, because they were so prescient in describing what happened to us in the past 30 years:
Erich Fromm - "Escape From Freedom"
Aldous Huxley - "Brave New World"
It is all about what the market can bear (and it can bear a lot these days, thanks to incessant money printing)
- Anthony "I am The Science" Fauci
or
- Dr Malone (mRNA inventor)?
Who to believe?
Difficult to say, but these days, sadly, the first (and prudent) thing to do is to follow the money. While credentials matter, the first thing I check when I read a paper/publication is who funded the work.
Medical field (being a physician) is not a walk in the park, but:
1. nobody questions you intelligence/knowledge after, say, 20 demonstrably successful years in the business
2. on your way home you can say "tough day, but at least I am making $600K/year"
Only partially true:
1. High total compensation (not salaries) is limited to FAANG/Unicorn employees (awash with money)
2. That high compensation has been achieved by stock options multiplying in value, thanks to abnormal run of the stock market (thank you Federal Reserve), which is not going to continue with rising interest rates
3. Salary base seems to be stuck at $150K for mid-senior developers in bigger cities (except for NYC) for many years now
"Profits for the taxpayer" - did you get a penny of the "profits"? The only people who profited were the executives of the bailed out companies - who deserved to lose their jobs, not double their wealth.
What we have is some form of (heavily financialized) crony statism, where a bunch of well connected monopolies milk consumers shamelessly (health "care", higher education, etc).
But there are 3 other aspects, specific to your location/economic system, which do not apply (and mostly never applied) in the US/West:
- people did not move around the country for jobs like they do in the US
- salaries in Eastern Europe/USSR were public and the same for the same position/responsibility.
- bosses' salaries were perhaps 30% higher (certainly not 300+% higher, so everyone was in the same socio-economic class, facilitating camaraderie
That the government, elected by the people, is actively - and pretty openly- diminishing the purchasing power of working people it was elected by - is just breathtaking.
And yes, the purchasing power will diminish, because price inflation will not be matched by income inflation, due to a lot of slack in the labor market.