"You got something of value in exchange for your work."

That isn't how these matters are arranged. I do provide work and materials for free out of goodwill as often as I can, and I accept the goodwill and kindness of others, not at all reciprocally, which is the necessary test of a transaction. Helping a friend in need isn't transactional, and having a friend to dinner isn't either.

" If I barter that work..."

That isn't what I do, and a mischaracterization of what happens. No barter process is undertaken. I help people when I can. When I am in need I ask for help I need from people I expect can help and are kind enough to me to provide it. There is never a quid pro quo, negotiation of tit for tat, or any transactional process.

"...like they are a reliable source of news when it's all one sided."

A biased source can be 100% reliable when they only report news that is factually correct and serves their bias. Bias is only problematic when it supersedes factual reporting, which you don't even allege.

"...tell the mods I wasn't being a team player and have me banned."

Well, of course. They're biased. You're a contrarian and anathema to them. What do you expect? They don't have an obligation to listen to reason - only to report facts they prefer to present. That in no way compromises your right to speak freely somewhere besides their platform, which they don't owe you. Neither does their bias in any way compromise their integrity just because it's not the bias you have.

"So they run the narratives fed to them."

No. They run the narratives they prefer, on their site. They aren't funded by any part of the US government, which is the only entity precluded by the Constitution from censoring you, and that because you are the sovereign it serves, and not the other way round, which is not the case regarding private parties the Constitution is no regulation or restriction of whatsoever.

"What a lot of this "deleting" funding by Musk concerning ESG, DEI, and other assorted woke-nest, is actually the billionaires who got the funding through the government to run this scam up against people, now they've won, they are pulling out the funding."

I don't even disagree. I've long pointed out that the consequence of rank degeneracy prescribed to society is blowback, and this cannot be unknown to fiendishly intelligent oligarchs, so is certainly their goal. That blowback is being directed into a global technocratic totalitarian tyranny, which is a phrase I have specifically used dozens of times over the years I've been predicting this particular backlash.

However, I will point something else out.

"...they've done beaten you..."

Is false. They have succeeded at their plan, and many people will not have seen it coming, and will not bet on the right horse, but I am not many people. I am not surprised nor discomfited by this, as I have long predicted it. I also predict that the laws of physics, being immune to being blackmailed, bribed, or browbeaten into submission, will mandate what technological advance will occur, and nothing billionaires, or even trillionaires, can do can prevent it. Decentralization of the means of production is the cutting edge of tech advance in every field of industry today without exception. From agriculture to transport, from power production to manufacturing, table top, garage, and backyard means of production that individuals are able to own and operate are where increases in productivity are arising today. More, AI that can and will automate these individual means of production are similarly advancing in productivity, as Deepseek being released into the wild as open source demonstrates.

What I have always said and continue to assert is that people that merit their survival and prosperity through this democidal catastrophe will adopt the decentralized means of production suitable to their circumstances, help their neighbors to do the same, and will not be relegated to eating the bugs the overlords seek to reduce us to, will not be deprived of transportation or any of the blessings of civilization they themselves make or trade amongst peers for. By this means the desperate overlords that see independent free people producing wealth for themselves that cannot be parasitized, and eliminates the flow of wealth and power to overlords, will fail to subjugate people of merit, and will ultimately fail to remain overlords solely possessing the wealth of the world, but will be relegated to that state they most despise: mere peers dependent on their own merit for their prosperity and unable to project force to conquer and control free people.

IOW, I am winning, not beaten at all.

"...I can't share that "I've told you so" enough."

Sadly, as I point out, that's but conceit, and not factually correct at all. Humility, as I regularly point out, is the basis for science, and for wisdom, and conceit is it's opposite, the source of hubris, and self-deception. You haven't told me so, but have neglected to hear me say these things over and over, which you can verify by a perusal of my back catalog.

You can say it to others, but you got me fucked up.

"Don't think this is going to come out as being the commander of your own personal little village like you think, you'll be on hunger overload unable to feed them all, eventually hunger will overcome those sexual fantasies and bragging rights you so desire, and all those women will become more worried about feeding their kids instead of if they get chosen for another night with you."

You're just deranged and projecting all over me whatever biases you labor under. Keep that drivel to yourself. It's not only actionable libel, it's pretty fucking offensive.