• Zacryon@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Remind me: why do we allow the worst of humanity to get into positions of power?

  • rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Corporations wielding power over nations. This is exactly what was bound to happen with Starlink sooner or later, although it’s much earlier than anticipated.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    Time to get Ukraine a different method of communication right the fuck away. This is a threat, not a boast.

  • Lit@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Elon will collapse on his knees if US subsidy on his businesses is switched off.

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    Meanwhile, Europe is pursuing replacements for Ukraine. Obviously none as good as Starlink and there’ll be a rough time in the switchover, but Musk is not the only source for this kind of service.

    And in the meantime, by merely making this statement Musk has doomed Starlink to never be seriously considered again as a provider for critical services like this elsewhere in the world.

  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Sounds like Ukraine would be within their right to do whatever it takes to prevent such an action regardless of how many toddlers are being used as a human shield.

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      3 days ago

      Just wait till he walks off negligently ignoring the child. Boom, no more human shield.

      • Slartibartfast@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I’m all for the hate musk train but that one was manufactured bullshit and actually opened my eyes at how manipulated I had allowed myself to become.

        In the whole clip he comes back for little X and it’s a total nothing burger. Obviously he’s a psycho and that kid is fucked but leaving him to navigate some stairs for 2 seconds is irrelevant. I guess maybe Americans are more helicopter and precious about kids but in the rest of the world we let them get on with it and that is totally fine.

  • Applesauce@lemmy.world
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    Musk’s bodyguards have the opportunity to be heroes of the world right now. They would go down in history as great men.

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      When the insane Emperor Caligula was killed by his Praetorian guards and they installed Claudius in his place, the first thing the new Emperor did was execute the guards involved in the assassination.

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      Funny how Americans are all about time traveling to kill Hitler but when they have Hitler at home…

  • heavydust@sh.itjust.works
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    Downvoted because we don’t have to hear all the idiotic thoughts of this moron but:

    I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat

    Putin is a crazy fucker from the KGB. Strength in a fight is not about age, going to the gym, or all the things Elon believes. I have personally known skinny old guys walking with a cane who could kick his ass in a few seconds.

    Ukraine will inevitably lose

    Putin propaganda, I am not surprised. The rest of the text is the same shit.