Elon Musk’s X Backs Down in Brazil
NYT quote:
"Now, X’s lawyers said the company had done exactly what Mr. Musk vowed not to: take down accounts that a Brazilian justice ordered removed because the judge said they threatened Brazil’s democracy."
Tell me again why you don't need Nostr or decentralized tech?! How Elon is going to save us and we can trust one individual to own the public square?
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/americas/elon-musk-x-brazil.html
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/21/24250697/x-complies-brazil-supreme-court
My understanding is that they refused to do it without due process, not that it was a blanket refusal. Any org with a viable head to cut off or throat to choke will bend to govt.
At some point a red state governor will tell the feds "come and get him" after one of these lawfare overreaches. And he'll order the National Guard in to prevent forceful extradition, setting up a standoff. I expect if Trump loses and they throw the book at him, DeSantis could make that call. The obvious move is to do it before Harris is inaugurated so she has plausible deniability and the feds have an escape hatch if the optics go bad.
Trudeau (Castreau version) was the first true degen to harness parliamentarianism + far left media to gain power over a G20 country despite relatively minimal popular support. If he is any indicator, UK/Germany/France/Netherlands can expect a decade+ of this.
Keep eating those blue pills Andrej. I hear they can be injected now.
I appreciated the nuance in your post.
Oh, I agree, the "well the dinosaurs were fine at 2500 ppm" claim is ridiculous. But equally ridiculous is the idea that 800 or 1000 ppm for a century or a millenium would definitely bring about catastrophic warming. And yeah, precautionary principle applies, but the problem with that is the precautionary side is starting like $100T in the hole in terms of annual value.
I mean, hyperinflation *would* accomplish all that...
Intetestingly, I have found that primary sources do handle assumptions and uncertainly reasonably well, buy then corporate media reports worst case scenarios without the nuance. Similar to when nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a goes on podcasts and presents a nuanced economic narrative, and then the video title extracts the most sensational lines out of context. There are exceptions of course (Michael Mann should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell for example) and the politicization of the system eliminates viewpoints that don't support global socialist takeover of the economy - but I don't think the lack.of nuance on the part of climate scientists is a significant part of the problem.
This is largely an artifact of the fact that temperature proxies are natural low pass filters. CO2 has increased faster than this several times during volcanic outbursts. People using the contrast between smoothed archaic curves and sharp modern curves and saying this has never happened before are either disingenuous or don't understand basic data analysis. Either way, proceed with caution!
“President Biden has not been the guy calling the shots...nor has it been Kamala Harris...nor will it be if she is elected..
It is...the woke war-mongers made up of...people who are in the military-industrial complex. People who profit from us being in a constant state of war.”
- Tulsi Gabbard
https://m.primal.net/JybI.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k86n1HQ-yO4
Next: hook up a loghtning wallet and take my sats plz.
You left out the part where they murdered a quarter of the population then utterly bankrupted the country by running an economy based on political favors for 3 generations. But yeah for brevity's sake I guess "lost faith" sums it up.
On account of all the cspitalist wreckers!
#quote #NietzscheThis is why some intelligent people are able to leverage their work ethic in great things, while some chronically underachieve. The ability to fashion a game for oneself out of an arbitrary playing field is simply not taught, and it is possibly *the* critical life skill.
Tempting to think we are in the Commodus years. I doubt it. If we are Rome this is Sulla vs the Gracchis (Trump). A populist goes against leviathan and goes down in a blaze of glory, cementing a toxic oligarchy that leads to a populist coup a generation later.
On the other hand, if you buy that Brittania was Rome and America is Byzantium, then the 20th century looks a lot like the 6th, a geographic lob of the dying culture to a more defensible location under one last great dynasty. The dynasty is steadily chipped away over dozens of generations as bureacrats, gangsters, allies, and enemies all extract pounds of flesh from the decadent corpes until eventually, they cannot even afford the obvious new weapons to defend themselves.
I see more clear parallels in the latter.
I have worked for him. He is an Edison-level engineer. I've seen him make incredibly ballsy calls based wholly on arcane technical details in extremely emotional situations. Having observed for a couple decades and been in the belly of the beast for more than half that I may be biased... but I think that is what detractors miss. They assume he is Richard Branson, but he is much more like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. You basically need to corrupt and undermine all of a society to stop that kind of force.
"Polling shows that our outdated 'more liberal => more conservative' axis delivers meaningless results no matter what question we ask!"
Say it ain't so Cal! Another hero slain.