• Cocopanda@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Woooooh. Musks security team is a gold mine. They will forever be employed because of this dudes stupidity.

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    15 hours ago

    This is a perfect example of why we have to confiscate the bulk of the fortunes of Sociopathic Oligarchs.

    We have this guy operating his own foreign policy in a very sensitive war with nuclear weapons in the mix. The rest of the world shouldn’t have to be at the mercy of his arrogance and hubris, waiting for him to get bored with this game, and move onto the next one, hopefully before he blows up the planet.

    He has been proven to be massive national and global security threat, who will only become more dangerous as he hoards more money. Just strip his citizenship, confiscate his money and his companies, and deport him to South Africa. Then use his example as a threat to other Sociopathic Oligarchs.

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    18 hours ago

    Oh, I remember hearing about this in 2022. There was a ton of speculation about this. I’m glad it’s been confirmed.

    Hoping one day the MuskRat finds himself behind bars.

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      17 hours ago

      When I pointed out the first time this happened, I was pummeled in the comments by people saying that he just doesn’t want to be complicit in anything. Okay, but then why did he give Ukraine a bunch of Starlink receivers to begin with? And now this is the second or third time he’s fucked the Ukrainians by turning off the service as they’re taking back their land.

      He a fucking clown. He wants his service used, but he doesn’t want any consequences. He just wants to drag the war out and add “Powered by Starlink”. He’s given himself some control over the conflict, while enriching himself for as long as it continues.

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        Yeah, I wasn’t really sure of his reasoning here, but I don’t think it was very good to begin with.

        Unfortunately, we already know that he has way too much power for a private citizen.

        I think in 2022, he still had some fans, he hadn’t quite ruined his image all the way yet, even though most of us could see the writing on the wall. It sucks you got jumped for that, though.

        I’m in the “We should Nationalize Starlink without giving him a dime” camp as recompense for this crime.

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        why did he give Ukraine a bunch of Starlink receivers

        Because those receivers were “free” for the Ukrainians but someone else paid millions for that

        Imagine paying $500/month for each “free” receiver because “military applications needs maximum quality” but when the vatnik CEO gets a call from its owner "oh no today it glitched!”

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        14 hours ago

        He likely wants to blackmail Ukraine with it. I now have some guess why the anti-anti-corruption bill was made…

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        12 hours ago

        I was going to say there’s no rules against saying “Elon Musk should be killed” here on Lemmy, but then I saw we’re on Lemmy.world, and I think they’re trying to be the new Reddit.

        (For any mods, this is not a call for violence, simply stating a thing that isn’t allowed. Please read it again if you think I made a call to violence.)

  • nthavoc@lemmy.today
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    13 hours ago

    At some point, someone’s going to figure out where that on/off button is and turn the tables around on him. History dictates you can only piss so many people off.

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    20 hours ago

    For everything that Musk touches there has to be some alternative.

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    20 hours ago

    This was already known back then, but it is good to bring it to the front again.

    I do kind of wonder if this is a “revenge” article against Musk for him firing up the epstein “debate” on his twitter posting spree.

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      19 hours ago

      The Kherson episode is distinct from an earlier report of an incident that purportedly occurred that same September, involving Crimea just to the south, and raised concerns about Musk’s ability to influence the conflict in Ukraine.

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    18 hours ago

    He sees the Russian oligarchs, basically medieval duchies where they’re a law unto themselves (unless they piss off papa Putin, then it’s out the window) and thinks that’s a pretty neat deal.