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“I mean, I find it personally interesting, but I think that it's, you It is a, it's a dangerous thing to bring into contact with journalists of certain types.”

“But also go back to journalists are not making use of technology. They're not gathering information. They're not doing things in a smart way. They're still doing things the way we've been doing them for 40 or 50 years.”

“Why they go after Uber, right? They didn't want another trillion dollar company, certainly not a libertarian one. Why they go after VCs? They're the ones distributing capital. If they go after these nexus points, these critical nodes, they could try to hit tho…”

“The journalist is a con man because they'll always write this email to you, which is like fluffing you up and flattering you and saying how great you are, blah, blah, blah, and pretending that they come in under flag of Parley, they get their quote, if you're …”

“We did this thing intuitively by freezing them out, of quotes, not talking to them, and posting the stuff ourselves. Now, they're just reduced to bloggers. Now, they're not sourced.”

“Build your own distribution to avoid distortion, ok? That is to say, any content you have, it should be posted on your feeds. Why would you go and feed it to some journo? You've got some scoop. You don't need them for distribution anymore.”

“The communists and the journalists are the same, but I repeat myself, right?”

“The ban on outbound links meant that suddenly X became the place you just go for the information, and you don't go to the journos anymore, right? So he stripped their status, he stripped their control over the central stream of media, he stripped their traffic…”

“The journals only get traffic for their articles when they get rage views from us.”

“My disagree with biology is that I don't think you should be antagonistic to reporters. There's no reason to, like, you can actually be friends with them, and they can be positive towards you. You can help them out. They're just humans at the end of the day, a…”