“Many, let’s not forget, believe America is heading for bankruptcy. The deficit is massive, the national debt is exploding, and underneath it all lies the underreported but truly eye-watering figure of $175 billion, which is what the US Treasury projects it will need to actually fund its social safety net. And what is America’s political class doing in the face of this looming fiscal disaster? They are quite literally borrowing money to send to Ukraine and Israel instead — a move that, in the corporate world, would be considered asset stripping.”
https://unherd.com/2024/04/why-the-west-will-refuse-to-fight/
gm, good people. ☕️☀️
16 bitcoin for a yellow notepad. Bravo, sir. Bravo.
I’ll zap to that.
#yestr #foodstr
Sadly, I must ask: what first amendment?
The President of the United States of America has dementia and the increasingly totalitarian U.S. government is attempting to eviscerate the constitution by removing every scrap of privacy and freedom you have left. https://v.nostr.build/AaBx7.mp4
You can almost hear the goose steps.
Every government is compromised.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“But inflation isn’t all bad. In a healthy economy, annual inflation is typically in the range of two percentage points, which is what economists consider a sign of pricing stability. When inflation is in this range, it can have positive effects: it can stimulate spending and thus spur demand and productivity when the economy is slowing down and needs a boost.”
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-explainers/what-is-inflation
Call me naive, but my abiding hope is that this act and those like it spurs the next generation of protocol designers and developers to create a means of financial privacy that *cannot* be stopped.
Let a hundred cashus bloom.
Privacy is a human right. ✊🏼
The masks are off, their intention is clear.
The message: privacy = prison.
Prison for privacy. We are well and fully into the “And then they fight you” stage.