You get the sense that he delayed pardoning Ross so he could let Lyn know personally.
The full pardon now means he can travel internationally as he now has a spotless record. Would it be too much to try to get him to come to San Salvador next week?
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Bitcoin Tech Talk #432
It's interesting. Money is becoming less and less important in politics, at least to get elected, largely because the money goes toward TV ads and volunteers on the ground visiting houses. Kamala had tons of that, and it didn't make much of a difference.
What is now moving the needle is personality, conversations, ability to get attention. We're moving from a gate-kept world where access was everything, to a world where people can more directly judge through long-form podcasts and such. It's no longer about establishment stooges, but about people that have ideas, the ability to verbalize them and show that they can do those things.
In the coming years, we'll see a lot of people that get to political positions that previously would have been kept out. And it'll be platforms like this which will enable them.
Elon wants to make X into the "everything" platform and he very well might.
But I guarantee that Nostr will have way more experimentation than X, simply because it's free (as in speech, not beer).
Whenever you assert something that sounds conspiratorial, the response by normies is almost always about "wouldn't we have heard something by now?" and "where are the whistleblowers?"
Both assume a media that's honest and seeking truth, neither of which have been true for a long time, perhaps ever. Conspiracies can easily be kept under wraps with suppression. Deplatform or never allow in the first place, anyone that can expose the conspiracy and that's it. Even if you get whistleblowers, you can always play the game of discrediting the person instead of addressing the charges.
There have been and continue to be lots of conspiracies. We just don't know about them because the authorities won't let them out. It's only on the fringes that you'll get even a hint of them.
