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Sort of interesting, Twitter was always a totalitarian hellscape. There's a reason why I deleted my account 5 years ago. The only thing that's changed is the authoritarian leader at the head of it now disagrees with the people that the leadership previously agreed with.

A $10,000 question should be: given a choice between a decentralized distributed censorship resistant platform and an incredibly centralized incredibly expensive big Tech alternative, why would anyone choose the former, even if the big Tech oligarch at the middle of it happens to agree with you this week?

I just figure he's a shyster. A modern-day P. T. Barnum.

You're right though, as long as you don't take any of it too seriously it's entertaining to watch.

Absolutely. That's the core of the liberal (in the sense of liberty) ideal in my view, that if everyone leaves each other alone then it doesn't matter nearly as much who is in charge.

Pretty sure your american, it's a founding principles of the country.

"a person who is professionally unscrupulous"

Sorta fits the bill. He's accomplished some stuff, but he comes in and pretends he's 1-2 years away from paradigm changing stuff that never arrives because it's science fiction. He's built his entire fortune on practices that are probably about to get him in a lot more trouble as he makes more enemies in Washington...

Mea culpa then. I was thinking of the phrase "there's a sucker born every minute" attributed to him when I said it.