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theinfinityman
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#Bitcoin HODLer since 2012. Nostr pleb. #FearIsTheMindKiller ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น

Buongiorno a te. Che bello avere dei motivi validi per andare a bere un cafferino ๐Ÿ˜‰

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.

I keep going back and forth on my opinion of him.

I've seen interviews with him where he seems quite genuine and almost "other-worldly" in terms of his reasoning and intelligence.

Then I see points like the ones you brought up and realise he's probably more of a billionaire Con Artist ...

I guess I just wish there were a real Tony Stark...

Love this interview!

I've also started to refer to Bitcoin as a sort of "Alien lifeform" when explaining it to people...

I wonder what he would think of all this if he were still with us.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - Litany Against Fear in DUNE #FearIsTheMindKiller

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. How's the book so far? Wouldn't mind reading this. Did a "Leonardo Tour" in Milan a few weeks ago, it was very interesting.