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.

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.

Yep, you can use tags and images. Markdown as well.

Can you see this?

only war mongers see Bitcoin thru a lens of violence.

Bitcoin is a neutral commodity.

Those who have actually experienced violence would never confuse BTC for war dollars.

W00T!

My Umbrel NOSTR relay now also works

Been Listening to Peter Schiff Debates About Bitcoin & Gold

One thing I learned is Peter Schiff loves to talk over his debating opponents and insist that Bitcoin is not worth anything. When challenged he doesn't give anything other than tautological reasons.

In any event, I think the respective communities' members show a huge demographic shift in what the old guard values and the younger generation values. Like many good ideas in the world, it may just be as the older generation passes away the world increasingly shifts to a Bitcoin Standard.

Go back to 2011 and listen to some of his first opinions on bitcoin and debates arguing against bitcoin. You will find he hasnt changed his initial stance in over 12 years and his initial stance was from a position of ignorance and misinformation as he had done zero research on the topic back then.

This means in over 12 years shiffty schiff hasnt even scratched below the surface of what bitcoin is how it works and why it is valued as money. His stubborn ego and old world biases have caused him to completely miss the future of money.

He could have put $10k into bitcoin when he first heard about it just as a way to learn ($10k is nothing to him) which would have left him with 10,000 btc which is worth $270 million today. This is 4 times his current estimated net worth of $70 million.

This is a great example of how ignorance ego and old paradigm assumptions can cause people to miss what is right in front of them. Peter Schiff should be the number one case study in any future book about predicting the future and the danger of biases.

Deutsche Bank fines:

- 2022: $200 million

- 2021: $130 million

- 2020: $160 million

- 2019: $40 million

- 2018: $385 million

- 2017: $8.5 billion

- 2016: $95 million

- 2015: $2.5 billion

- 2013: $2.0 billion

- 2012: $200 million

- 2011: $145 million

- 2010: $570 million

- 2008: $3.4 billion

Deutsche Bank has been fined 79 times for a total of $18.5 BILLION since 2000, an average of $800 million per year.

The entirety of my mentions every time I open the app is people complaining about damus. Finding myself not wanting to open the app as much these days. I have been working 24/7 since December and even pushed an update in the air on the way to CR. Reminder I’m not making any money on this app and its still a passion project is slowly bankrupting me. Sorry if I’m not working hard enough 😕

#Bitcoin is the only coin that matters

Hahaha

Getting close to failing these on the regular.