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SimulationCommander's avatar

"DUMP PAYPAL......."

Yes

"and go all in on TWITTER PAY."

Not interested in going from one centralized 'solution' to another.

2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

Exactly. DeFi or die. And always local.

Bob Leithiser, Ph.D.'s avatar

We need to take advantage of whatever platforms that we can, even if they aren't ultimately on our side to get the message out along with a mitigation plan to other platforms.

Substack runs on top of AWS and Amazon could shut it down at any time. What are we doing to mitigate that? Hosting content in private data centers is the only safe option but then we will still need to deal with ISPs and domain registrars banning stuff. Ultimately if we want to have any voice among Big Tech, it will require "small tech" or "alt tech" where we cobble together distributed networks using devices that can bypass the public Internet infrastructure by connecting directly to satellite private circuits through a new mobile device platform and satellite communication devices that can be placed strategically in data centers or in neighborhoods.

I hope you are wrong about Elon Musk, because the reality is that he is the only one with the infrastructure and money to enable such a network if it comes down to that. In the meantime, we can prepare by having a contingency for Substack being shut down, backing up content, using private servers to mirror the content, and developing an alternate platform for information sharing and collaboration.

TBJESS's avatar

Elon, doesn't own the internet yet, does he?

MatKelly's avatar

When they shut the net we know, his starlink is ready to accommodate, but you’ll need a digital id🤪

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TBJESS's avatar

And that's the plan, he has to gain the trust of those who haven't followed the system. He will have people eating out of his hands and then they will take whatever he ask them to take, like brain chips.

MAGA_From_Heaven's avatar

Ain't no Republicans getting brain chips. Most of his would-be customers will die suddenly from mysterious circumstances that will baffle doctors. I think Elon may have been flipped and will be changing his business model. I don't think Tesla will be around much longer... he's alienating his customers and the whole EV industry is being exposed as a fraud.

Jimychanga's avatar

Washington’s proxy war against Russia is failing, and the establishment is getting frantic.

Contrary to early Beltway hopes and expectations, Russia neither collapsed internally nor capitulated to the collective West’s demands for regime change in Moscow. Washington underestimated Russia’s societal cohesion, its latent military potential, and its relative immunity to Western economic sanctions.

President Zelensky’s recently fired advisor and unofficial “Spinmeister,” was more direct. He expressed his own doubts that Ukraine can win its war with Russia and he now questions whether Ukraine will even survive the war. Ukrainian losses—at least 150,000 dead including 35,000 missing in action and presumed dead—have fatally weakened Ukrainian forces resulting in a fragile Ukrainian defensive posture that will likely shatter under the crushing weight of attacking Russian forces

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/this-time-its-different/

Jimychanga's avatar

It will be if the US and NATO keep pushing, giving Russia no choice IMO

Elizabeth's avatar

But isn't that exactly what 'they' want?

Jimychanga's avatar

Yes, the US and NATO want war with Russia, and think they can pull it off without thermo nuclear war. They're thinking tactical nukes at worst, with the prize being a Russian puppet state that quietly joins the NWO Great Reset and does what it's told and paid to do. If this provocation going right back to the 2014 treaty (which Merkel and others have now openly admitted was a ruse to trick Russia in order to arm Ukraine to attack them) doesn't lead to nuclear war it will be because of the restraint and humanity of Russia. If that sounds strange to anyone, they should read this and watch the interview with Ritter at the bottom: https://jimychanga.substack.com/p/if-war-breaks-out-between-russia

Elizabeth's avatar

It doesn't sound strange to me. We're just trained to think Russia is bad. The most intelligent interviews I have heard in the past year came from spokespeople from Russia and also China. Certainly not the US.

I am not the least bit enthralled or under any delusions about the government of the country in which I live. Sad to say.

MAGA_From_Heaven's avatar

Good thing Biden was never inaugurated, huh? ;-)

Elizabeth's avatar

Puppets, puppets, puppets?

Elizabeth's avatar

So many distractions, so little time.

TBJESS's avatar

You just confirmed my suspicions about him. I always thought he was playing both sides. I thought it was the plan all along.

Anonymous New Mexico's avatar

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Pete Lincoln's avatar

Stripe is Twitter and Substacks payment processor. Musk was an initial investor in Stripe. Mark Carney joined Stripes Board in 2021.

If you don't know Mark Carney Google him

TBJESS's avatar

I dumped paypal months ago and I have no plans for replacing it.

jj's avatar

Twitter, fb, Instagram, PayPal, tic tok aside, the parasitic powers that be will take down cyberspace completely, including your banking. Then they will require a digital ID to regain access. THAT is what should be planned for. So spend your dollars on real goods, or put it under your mattress!

bigfatpop's avatar

Thank you for warning about fElon. Sad that most of the MAGA crowd will not believe it.

Jjule's avatar

Why do you say that?

Deplorable Maggot's avatar

You write: "Clearly, these mind tricks and psyops keep working on a brainwashed and mesmerized populace locked in either/or thinking, or lack thereof."

Substitute Populace to read: 80% of your readers (the anti-vaxxers). Why the condescension?

2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

you can't be anti something that does not exist.

enjoy this substack.

Rob's avatar

I always said the left right paradigm is this harlots way to dupe the masses into worshiping her beast!:

https://sumofthyword.com/2021/01/07/mystery-babylon-the-great-and-her-beast/

TBJESS's avatar

I just deactivated mine, thanks

Jjule's avatar

But is Musk a good guy?

Ms. P's avatar

Is just being on Twit a danger, in your opinion? I've no plan to hand over my phone number nor sign up for an alternative payment system. But should we be getting out of Dodge 100?

Bob Leithiser, Ph.D.'s avatar

There are much better alternatives for secure collaboration including Signal and Element - Element can run on private servers also and is open-source, so can be verified to not be "phoning home" in a private data center deployment. Both allow end-to-end encryption without the data being stored on a cloud that can potentially be decrypted (if using Element Matrix on a private server).