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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @028559d218 10h \ parent \ on: The Bellamy salute and Nazi Germany culture
"What is it that you think is going on here? Elon's a secret Nazi and in a moment of excitement he let his guard down?"
As a matter of fact, that's exactly what I believe.
The media outlets (the social media ones, the ones people actually use) like Twitter, Facebook, Google etc...
Are completely captured. They own all the data of everything posted on them. The can cancel, censor, remove, or ban any user they want, at will any time for anything.
Having so much power in so few companies, to control what Americans see, read, believe, communicate, and think.... where a lot of people get their information is incredibly dangerous and totally dystopian. Hell no I'm not going to give anyone at Twitter the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their intentions or motives, and that certainly includes Mr. Musk.
To make it worse, Twitter is filled with bots and scams which the platform still hasn't meaningfully removed... the only explanation for which I can understand is that they don't want to.
Attention and 'engagement' drive advertising and all of these platforms (google, meta, twitter) are in the advertising business. Whether or not you like Mr Trump (some do some don't) the situation is really dystopian as the incentives are all wrong and people should not trust these platforms or who runs them.
I have news for you... I agree with you but this has been the status quo for my entire life. When I was a kid there were 3 networks and a few newspapers that told people what to think. The US has been like this my entire life. Now its online with the tech giants as you say. Just a different set of faces.
The salute doesn't matter. Power does. The Biden crime family is out and the Trump / Paypal mafia is in...
They aren't Nazis but that doesn't mean they are good people either. I refuse to be afraid of these clowns whatever they are.
Here's a real simple category. They are all statists. The state is evil and needs to be abolished as an idea. People worship it. There are different forms like facism, communism, and democracy but they all have one thing in common. A monopoly on violence that they exert on the plebs.
Its not that Trump isn't bad or Musk isn't bad. Its that what came before them was as bad if not worse. Arguing about that is kinda pointless really.
Don't be afraid of these clowns. We have freedom money and we will win. Its not happening any time soon but we aren't losing.
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Just having Bitcoin is not enough.
We need ideas and platforms with which to share them, ways to influence, ways to communicate, and we need to offer people something better than what the politicians can.
"We have freedom money and we will win." The vast majority of Bitcoin purchased is KYC. And there are really few places where people can actually spend their Bitcoin. That has been stomped out and meanwhile the president is apparently selling... memecoins of himself.
Other than El Salvador and Lugano, Switzerland (which I wrote about) there are very few places to spend Bitcoin day to day and governments have somehow made sure it's not used as a MoE.
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I'm not a Trump fan and my outlook is the same regardless of what he does. My outlook is generational.
Its gonna be ok man. The world is going on and we don't win tomorrow but we don't lose either. I don't have time to map it out for you but we disagree... that's fine. Just try to not worry but rather focus on making yourself resilient to whatever may come. Focus on what is in your control and do what you can. If that means moving somewhere else do it. If that means something else focus on that.
I'm not just on autopilot here. I'm not passively waiting for bitcoin to fix the world. I just have no control over Trump or Elon. Just me and what I do.
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Trump did what he said he was going to do... aka with regards to Ross.
And for that I am very surprised. And also kind of amazed honestly that he kept to his campaign promises.
Good for him.
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What does any of that have to do with being a Nazi?
Again, this isn't about giving Elon the benefit of the doubt. The media has called every significant figure on the right a Nazi for this entire century. It's dumb. That's my point.
There's no constituency that Nazism appeals to. It makes no sense to be dog whistling to Nazis or any other form of hinting at it. It's utterly deranged to see Nazis everywhere.
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I agree. Seeing nazis everywhere... it's silly and it's not called for.
But do I think there could be a nazi-sympathizer or closet white supremacist/nazi in the White House running things? I mean it's not beyond the scope of possibility...
It is possible and if you look at twitter frankly it's filled with alt-right neo-white supremacist nonsense everywhere it's not the only thing on twitter obviously but there's a lot of it.
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