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Sorry to go off-topic, but you started it... Disagreeing with Musk politically is OK, but it might be advisable to not let your hatred warp the reality...Easily searchable _facts_:

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

No, it is really "competition" (banks compete for my money) vs "monopoly" (no other option than the government).

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.

I actually did, a few months ago. In my state, out of the 10 non gun-carrying people killed by the cops in the past 10 years, 2-3 were Black, 5 were White, the rest Hispanic and 1 Asian (matching the racial makeup of US).

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.

The left-leaning bias is not limited to just "news".

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.

Life is not fair and not a bed of roses, never will be.

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.

Words can break hearts when they come from a loved one, or someone you look up to.

Why would what some random person says break your heart?

The Fed want inflation to diminish (in real terms) the mountains of debt the US government and consumers incurred in the past 20 years. At the expense of the poorest people and savers (because wage inflation is much lower than the goods/services inflation, not to mention bank savings interest rates, which are laughable).

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.

Pearson had a 50% stake, most of which was sold to the Agnellis. So now, the Agnellis and the Rotschilds are the largest (and, together, controlling) shareholders.

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.

They were only petitioning for early elections - in case Covid restrictions were not immediately removed. Not unconditionally.

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?

So they tried to "overthrow the government" by filing a petition to call for early elections? That's quite a stretch...

> to overthrow the elected government of Canada

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?

You missed my point entirely - which is: Increased expenses that others occur now due to inflation, will - sooner or later - affect you.

The fact that something (temporarily) does not affect you does not mean it is not happening.

You are lucky, then. For me, electricity, gas, and, above all, real-estate taxes went up easily 10% (or more).

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.

Since we can only pick one -> "Animal Farm", no question about it. Easy read, succinctly describes human nature.

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"