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[–] fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world 25 points 18 hours ago

Heil, Shitler!

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

I can think of one or two reasons they wouldn't remain employed

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

if that doesnt work, he will just use one of his various 14 human shield babies.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

how sad for you, mister assassin, you have run out of bullets, and i still have ten offspring to use

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 144 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Treetrimmer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Nah he needs to be publicly executed.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 12 hours ago

I'm cool with that, too.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure trump would love to do that and has back up plans to do that for any or all of the billionaires. Of course, they think they're special and think it won't happen to them.

[–] TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Everything Trump has ever done (not said) indicates the exact opposite.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

Do you mean like Musk, Rudy, Herman, Murdoch, My Pillow guy, etc.?

[–] kebab@endlesstalk.org 62 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Looking forward to seeing EU alternatives for Starlink

[–] hark@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Alternatives would be great! My only concern is the number of satellites that have to be continually launched while older satellites are burned up after just five years. That's thousands of satellites per service provider having to be continually replaced. Seems wasteful, but maybe I'm thinking the resource usage is greater than it really is in the grand scheme of things.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 9 points 23 hours ago

That five year figure is the time it takes to deorbit if the satellite goes dead, not the lifespan, from my understanding.

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[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Honestly, someone hurry up and launch an alternative! Chinese are setting up one but I wouldn't trust them either.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The French government just invested a load of money in Eutelsat to kickstart this about a month or so ago

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[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I think they should be taken down or taken over by another entity. They were launched under the premise they were a utility and it turns out they're being used military.

I dont mean the internet access itself but the giving and striping of access to suit a military agenda goes beyond the pervue of an organization claiming to be an ISP or commercial utility.

[–] kebab@endlesstalk.org 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

For starters, the Great Chinese Firewall blocks access even to lemmy

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It depends, maybe they like the contents of some instances like this one

Although on some blocks I can't disagree:

[–] kebab@endlesstalk.org 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The big instances are blocked (like yours, i.e. lemmy.world) while the small ones that the CCP didn’t catch up with yet (like mine) are working fine. It’s a censorship went wrong moment

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 224 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This was Elon Musk's way of declaring himself an enemy combatant.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.)

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[–] dastanktal@lemmy.ml 139 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 57 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] dastanktal@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

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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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 175 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Oh ya, Musk is still a piece of shit.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 24 points 1 day ago

How considerate of him to remove all doubt

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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 92 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Huh, I didn’t have ‘war criminal’ on my list of Shitty Things Musk Is. Let’s just add that right below ‘Proud Nazi’

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

oh look it's Adolf Twitler

[–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He has been a war criminal for a few years now.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 23 hours ago

since fall of '22 when he did the same thing first time, then shortly after met with putins circles in qatar.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's depressing we had to add that background when he's doing the salute already.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

It's depressing that everybody sees the Nazi salute there but nobody notices the Mussolini stank face. 2-for-1 special on fascism.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 82 points 1 day ago (38 children)

Normally, I would have advocated for the nationalization of Starlink and SpaceX as a matter of national and global security, but it's not like the current American regime would do any better. I'm not going to be counting on them to investigate, let alone prosecute the affairs of this Russian junkie-stooge either.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Regardless of who would do better, the entirety of SpaceX and Starlink were paid for using American taxpayer's money and government contracts. We already paid for it, we should own it.

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