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MSM despise Musk because he now leads the largest public forum that cannot be regulated and controlled in accordance to mainstream guidelines. Free, widespread, and uncensored communication is a threat to MSM, and therefore Twitter's popularity is a direct and growing threat that's misaligned with established global narratives. They had no problem with him building an EV/clean energy business, but now that he's promoting free speech he's enemy #1.

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Love this clip. Great analysis Joe. Probably the last time they will ever interview Musk live. I love how Musk doggedly was determined to make it clear that he was sitting down with a person that was completely unprepared to deal with the consequences of speaking first and thinking later.

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Apr 14, 2023Liked by Joe Martino

This was great to watch! Don't always love Elon, but he handled things perfectly here.

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Keep up the good work, Joe! Love to hear "the other side" of standard news broadcasts.

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Apr 14, 2023Liked by Joe Martino

Musk kept his side of the conversation simple and factual; the other guy was slithering all over the place, lost his grip as his points were framed by consensus science, which is fake science etc...

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Apr 14, 2023Liked by Joe Martino

One other thing I have noticed : Musk’s spirit dominates this guy all along. Just saying…

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Apr 13, 2023Liked by Joe Martino

It looks like blindness/untruth has more value than money. Money cannot buy everything.

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Apr 13, 2023Liked by Joe Martino

The agent smith comparison is on point. Not to be rude, but sometimes it does feel like I am seeing robots on the news. I'm going to go watch this full interview as I'm sure there is more gold in there too. lol

Keep up the great work, first class stuff!

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Apr 13, 2023Liked by Joe Martino

I have parts of me that are deeply programmed to black and white thinking. I am observing all that in my self and the others I come in contact with. Initially, it was quite difficult to see it in myself: painful strong emoting, guilt, shame, fear. Gradually, over a couple of decades, I am making progress. I see those parts in me quite clearly, more and more, and am learning to treat all that with kindness. I am finding, as I know my own programmings deeply and work on 'allowing them to evolve' and then speak this truth to others with kindness, the world around me evolves, as well.

When I admit my own programmings, with kindness and without agenda, it opens a space for others to do this work as well. Pointing a finger is never kind and I know that sometimes it seems necessary. There is that subtle movement from pointing it out to being kind to its presence.

I am content to be here with folks who are on the path of self discovery. I believe it could be the path of evolution.

Thank you for balanced reporting, Joe.

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I got a good laugh this morning, lol thank you for this, Joe! However, while Musk may have done some "cleaning up" of Twitter, I think one important question to ask is what censorship mechanisms and algorithms are still operating on Twitter; and whether there may still be federal agents embedded in the deepest levels of the platform. For example, Twitter is apparently taking aim at Substack itself by including warning labels that say Substack links are "unsafe" or "dangerous", and even blocking users from retweeting stories with Substack links.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674936/twitter-marking-substack-links-unsafe

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Apr 13, 2023Liked by Joe Martino

That clip made my morning lol. You gotta love the fact that Elon is at least willing to stand up to these people. Great analysis on your part as well. I've grown a bit tired of the black and white thinking in both alt media and MSM, glad you guys and a few others exist to keep me sane! :)

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