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The West censors and arrests populists, but there's one big country where populism has taken hold: India. India's populist Modi has delivered stro...

Struggling with this one from someone who's content usually resonates. The grift, propaganda, theft that is commonplace in my country would blow your minds. All for praising the good and criticizing the bad but this is just an all round uninformed take. If you'd like a latest example of Modi's push (propoganda) to stoke "populism" leading up to our Independence Day which is tomorrow all phone calls now are preceeded by a message from our Supreme leader re a nationalism flag hoisting campaign. This is not Opt in.

Looking at Macro folks' generally positive comments on India is a headscratcher for someone like me who lives here. Born, raised 97% of my time spent here and Indian in case that needs saying. The level of grift and corruption is unimaginable even for tuned in Bitcoiners who live in the west. Pelosi and co are rookies compared to the shit that goes on here. Sure zoomed out there are favorable tailwinds but how much of that has to do with the people in charge vs demographics and other factors (that I don't pretend to know) is a ?. Balaji especially is too one sided on this topic.

Re reading The Fiat Standard straight after doing the same for The Bitcoin Standard. Hits different after sequentially + after having far more education under my belt. Will share excerpts that stand out (for me) thank you Saif! Is he not on here?

Two firsts: Testing Nostr + if my thoughts are just valuable just in my head or others as well.