yeah, i think you tickled a funny bone with the "there is no nostr elite" point right at the end
that's the one that was most accurate but least discussed, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and survivorship bias
it is the most unspoken thing by the elites, always, that's the last thing they want to do is acknowledge they are set apart even though everything they do sets them apart
anyway, it is a really big stretch, IMO, to assert that this point is manipulative, because it's the thing that causes the most visceral reaction in individuals who match the rest of the profile
anyway, he'll get over it... he always was the least pretentious of the cool kids club
Denying that there is a hierarchy, when we can map it from the public data set, is ridiculous.
And complaining that some of the people higher in the hierarchy are too aloof, distant, indifferent, or self-serving, is as old as humanity.
Bizarre to claim that is Marxism, on a platform full of rebellious Bitcoiners and Libertarians.
I also reject the logic of "Group A said X, so anyone who says X belongs to Group A". That is an obvious fallacy, unless you can prove that only Group A has ever said something like that.
That's the same lazy tactic they've used in Germany to denounce anyone critical of CBDCs, censorship, or open borders as "Nazis".