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 I don’t understand the insistence that Musk is some sort of savior for freedom. He was Twitter to become WeChat. He wants to benefit from the surveillance state 

#optout
#bitcoin 
 I seriously can't stand him! 
 He bought Twitter in order to do exactly the opposite of what he claimed he wanted to do. I have never paid a dime for any social media access, and I never will.  If they cut me off, good riddance. 
 Microsoft and Google are way more into surveillance  
 All the customer info he scrapes from Twitter is what is training his AI cars and worker bots. In a future "TimeChain" world he will have to "zap" us for our info. ;-) 
 No wonder they're so far away from "Full Self-Driving" and his worker bots can't do basic things that robots like ASIMO have been doing for decades. 
 He did help create PayPal.. 🤮 
 No he didn't.

X.com was an online bank. Confinity created Paypal, which was the payment product we know today. X.com merged with Confinity and the resulting company was called X.com. They soon dropped the online bank service (the thing that Musk was working on) after the merger and changed the name of the company to Paypal. Musk was fired before the company was ever called Paypal, and he had nothing to do with the actual Paypal payment product. 
 Many in society have to trained depend on someone telling them how to think. Be it religious leaders, teachers, coaches, celebrities, politicians. Very few teach children and adults that it is ok to think for themselves. They latch onto people instead of ideas. 
 I'll tell you one thing. He's been dropping a lot of red pills for the normie left that's been following him all these years.  
 Good thing I was never on the platform in the first place. 
 Musk is the AOC of the right  
 Exactly, he just want right wing brownie points 
 Musk is peak fiat. His involvement with Twitter was an attempt to meme that went wrong. He runs most of the companies he touches into the ground, and the only reason Tesla is still around is because of government subsidies. They don't even know how to build cars properly.

Make no mistake, Musk only cares about himself, and he proves it time and time again. Not to mention he's a pathological liar. 
 Yeah, the Elon worship is especially pervasive among fellow libertarians. Can we acknowledge that corpos and the uber rich are not our friends? 
 It’s his wee cult that already agree with him. He censors views he disagrees with constantly. Total hypocrite 
 Complete hypocrisy 
 I don’t trust him. Controlled opposition comes to mind. 
 his companies' achievements are exceptional (spacex and tesla specifically) 

but he pulled the rug on dogecoin and people acted like nothing happened

sus, since the beginning