Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

His internet satellite thing is also an unworkable scam. All his genius ideas are always on the verge of changing the world, they just need more government support before they do.

Notice when actual inventions are going to change the world, their producers are too busy making them to ask anyone for money. The ICE car, airplane, or iphone did not need decades of subsidies like the electric car or his rockets to nowhere.

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Savage Saif 🫡

This decade is so exciting

How is Star link a scam? It works. Providing higher speeds in Sydney, more than I can get through a land cable. You’re talking bollocks to get some likes.

Steve Jobs had government subsidies too.

You all sounds like a bunch of kids jumping on a band wagon. Lyn sits around looking at charts and tweeting all day. Hardly inspiring

And when real break through happens like #ChatGPT, Elon wants to slow down the progress cuz he ain't in the driving seat of the next generation technology revolution.

Starlink is disguised as internet for the underserved. The bread and butter for that one is governments and military.

Just like the rest of his businesses

The first cars were electric. Nobody wanted gasoline cars because they made too much noise and smoke, and the crank could break your arm when you started it.

But batteries had very small capacity back then, so gasoline won.

What I find a bit strange is for someone who promotes an independence tech, I would imagine a more balanced view of a mode of transportation using a form of energy that can be created in a hundred different ways, including in your own home, vs being dependent on a form of energy produced and sold in a very centralized way, and for which many wars have been fought and many bad political compromises have been made. Also the fact that it's not a "treehugger scam" that what comes out of tailpipes is not just CO2 but a host of extremely toxic and carcinogenic particles.

As for Elon, I have neither a great love or animosity towards him. Plus he paid 44 billion for Twitter, he can do whatever the fuck he wants to it!

If he was just in it for the money, he would have joined the vaccine scam business like Gates. I really don't subscribe to the idea that Tesla has become one of the biggest auto makers, because of subsidies. Do the actual products have anything to do with it? Fuck yeah. If that's your take, how much has GM gotten compared to Tesla?...

I feel like could he be the owner of the controlled opposition to keep people there and don't go to Nostr

Salty... but true

Sorry Saif, but this is just false. I work in remote locations frequently and it's night and day since Starlink became a thing. Prior to it I would have no access to the outside world for weeks at a time, now it's just the standard to have internet available. While there were other remote services prior to Starlink, they were literally never brought to a site because of the outrageous expense.

Couldn’t disagree more lol