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 I DONT HATE ELON. 
I RESPECT HIM. 

THAT IS THE PROBLEM.

NO ONE MAN SHOULD HAVE ALL THAT POWER. 
 People in the crowd probably have shrines for him at home. 

Crazy. 

Never understood idol worship. 
 you don’t have to “respect Elon” sir, respectfully. 
 You can respect his output and agree with some of his ideas without hero worship.  The world isn’t as binary as the internet would love it to be. 
 Ye 
 So you're a communist. 
 LMFAO 
 You do support companies that threaten Bitcoiners with the power of the state, so there's a track record here... 
 I BELIEVE THAT HE IS FOR THE MOST PART DOING WHAT HE THINKS IS RIGHT, AND IS MAKING PROGRESS TOWARDS FREE SPEECH, BUT YOU ARE RIGHT, NO INDIVIDUAL OR GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE THAT POWER.  
 Nah, I hate the guy 
 I DON’T HATE HIM EITHER

I JUST THINK HE’S A SHITCOINING, GOBERMINT TITSUCKING, TROLLISH, ANNOYING MEGALOMANIAC 

AND, FOR A GENIUS, REALLY FUCKING DUMB 
 He's also an authoritarian bootlicker

He seriously goes out of his way to be an asshole towards 🇹🇼 every chance he gets. Fuck him 😤 
 Don't forget that his testicles are in the hands of the CCP😂 
 😅😅😅 
 who is nostr's CEO 
 I love Elon.  Greatest fucking inventor/engineer/businessman in a long time.  The world would be super depressing without him, and Tesla / SpaceX / Boring Company. 
 He loves that government money way too much. And that whole wechat of the west thing 🙄 
 I respect him as a "tech innovator." I do not respect him as a person. 
 It’s like you don’t know that he didn’t invent all that shit  🤦‍♀️  
 It's like you didn't see the air quotes. 
 K. I do hate his lying fucking face pretending to be a hero while providing no actual value to the world, but that's how I see it.

I would love to hear why you respect him.
Is it because you think the average person would act EVEN MORE like a douche with that same amount of power? 😂 
 Why all the hate man

Let him be
Onward 🫂 
 You're right but at the same time, there's a quote that states this better than me, it went something like "If you see corruption and don't speak up, you're part of the problem" and I heavily agree with that.
And that guy, oh boy.
Biggest phony the world may have ever seen. 
 Ah, fair enough.

I see where you're coming from 
 Who, Nassim Nicholas Taleb? Yeah, that was one of his many "pot meets kettle" moments 
 The quote is possibly his, yeah. At least Taleb did deliver quite a bit of value in the past though :) Maybe he still does but I haven't paid attention to his newer work, if any. 
 You're implicitly asserting that you are capable of making that moral judgement, by saying, "should." 

It is a iron law of the universe that there are dominance hierarchies. 
Therefore, if it's not Elon that has "ALL THAT POWER," who then?
Because it's going to be someone. 
And there is nothing you can do to change it that law. 
 GM 
 Why not ?  It's just Fiat .. how many #bitcoin he has on person is really the question ..  
 read Atlas Shrugged....Elon and creators like him are needed.... 
 He doesn’t have any power and he’s the farthest thing from someone deserving of your respect. 
 Can we give him a pass.? After all, he is Satoshi