ha. Kind words. I'm not quite so based, but being minimalistic, anti materialistic and self sufficient seemed to be a necessary stance against the world as it appeared to be.

think I'll just live off my Bitcoin stack and quietly enjoy God's creation

While obviously racists exist, the elephant in that article for me was : the intelligence agencies, from all countries, are in there running a certain number of those accounts for psyop purposes, and in all likelihood, they're running as many of them as needed to have the desired effect

To me it would be great to see what the real, natural numbers of active racists would be .

maybe I'm naive but I think it would be generally inconsequential

the caveat to that is that it's importance would be contextual: if the society is doing well, it will be inconsequential. If it's doing shit, like now, perhaps it could be the spark of something horrendous.

As it is said: don't shoot the messenger

isn't it better to get a real-time temperature check of things?

after reading about the Bolsheviks, the various Jewish progroms and the middle ages witch hunts trying to suppress this is liketrying to suppress a virus, and we know how that works out.

to me these outbursts of violence have nothing to do with race or ethnic hate and everything to do with Humans under massive states of fear that are not being skillfully addressed, so they pick on marginal communities and people

this model of surveillance and censorship isn't working, and it's never going to work

I don't have specific bright ideas, but I'm sure of this much

sure maybe you or I could have started that business, but surely they worry one day their car brakes will mysteriously fail

they need X. X makes their propaganda way more effective than the other platforms.

Furthermore, like a bunch of budgerigas obsessed with mirrors, X is the kakistocracies "mirror of irresistible narcissism"

They will keep X but seek to separate Elon from it somehow.

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