This is why I said all effort should probably focus on one anti-cbdc point: potential silencing of speech.
Tie it into the dictatorship talking point and US may just reject it.
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Also just general freedom...I've had success pointing out to an obese friend that a CBDC could theoretically be used to prevent him from going to his favourite restaurant every night.
I'm a shitlord. I wish he'd stop eating junk. But the idea (actually voiced by a politician in my country) that he could be banned from spending his own money on junk does not sit well with me at all.