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do that right now while Ukraine is raging. But I feel you can even give Putin a win on paper. You know one of the problems is Putin needs to get something out of his actions, right? He needs to show that he won. And what would be a better win for everybody involved than to form a space alliance before anybody's got any real spaceships except for the ISS, right? It would look like a win, wouldn't i…

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re's nothing I hate more than too much pleasure. Like I'll just be bored to death and I feel like my life is worthless. So in order for me to feel like I'm part of life and that I'm doing something useful, I do this. Because to the extent that people find benefit of it for their life, that makes me happy and that makes it all worthwhile. So that's what's going on.

But there are people working very hard to diminish my value. Unfortunately they're mostly on Twitter. And somebody, oh here's the question for you. Somebody said to me that it's my own fault that people don't understand me on Twitter. And I guess that's a yes or no for me. It's my own fault because I could tweet non-provocative stuff, right? But to be useful, as you've seen many times, I like attacking the arguments on my own side if they're weak. And if I do that on Twitter it looks like I'm on the other team and everything goes wrong. You must seem to have similar motivations. Yeah it's what happens when you get enough for your

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self. I mean think of Elon Musk. He's a young man and he has, at one point he was the richest person in the world. Why do you wake up? I mean it's fun I mean it must be fun but he fills his day with work. I think work is the only meaning he gets and the rest is just filling the time before you do something meaningful. All right. That's all for now YouTube and Rumble. Let me know on Rumble how it…

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