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.

It’s true.

I have never held nor transacted with any stablecoin.

Not sure what crawled up this guy’s ass. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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I love the line in that ep where Homer says "Queer, right? That's what you like to be called? John's response: Well yeah that, or John".

CBDCs: Just like your current money, manipulated by the same bankers and politicians, but now with fine-tooth control over how, when, and where you spend it.

twitter is already dead but it will probably take a few years before the rest of the world figures that out

How many of you out there used bitcoin for the first time because of nostr? Anyone?

First zap! ⚡️

Is there any reason to keep a smaller set of relays instead of a larger one?

I suppose spam reduction is better if you only connect to paid relays that offer spam reduction?