I miss when "fed-pegged lightning side chains" peddled by Blockstream, Luke, Greg et al was the biggest load of buzzwordy self-serving bullshit in the space.

Just to be clear what happened here, he made the point that if such sweeping negative stereotypes of other groups were thrown about it would be shocking and unacceptable, and your rebuttal(?) is that his examples are shocking and unacceptable and so you won't respond..? QED, I guess.