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.
That really will do wonders for the “don’t buy American” waves that’s washing over Europe at the moment.
I didn’t need much more of a motivation, but yeah, that really helps cementing the idea.
But it made him feel really important for a while, which is all that matters.
He sounds like a shitty Bond villain
I’m pretty sure James Bond was tied up inside the spacesuit on that Tesla Roadster he launched in the direction of Mars.
The sad part it, it probably wont if he keeps monopolizing it, a lot of people still use windows, google, etc… Even though their shit and malicious
That fact that he made that comment would cause every other country to second guess themselves using this service. Starlink is now going to be a US service for the most part. My opinion anyway…who knows these days.
US, Russian and Hungarian
Anyone not already second guessing would be fools.
Musk’s bodyguards have the opportunity to be heroes of the world right now. They would go down in history as great men.
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.
Even if everyone agreed with them at the time, it was unavoidable at the time. You couldn’t have soldiers kill their emperor.
I hope they did it fully aware of the consequences.
Can’t be having those guards kill the new emperor. Makes sense
I wonder if the guards expected it or not
Old claw claw was everyone’s fool till he wasn’t.
Funny how Americans are all about time traveling to kill Hitler but when they have Hitler at home…
It is almost like this Nazi is working against the interest of democracy and supporting the interest of a piece of shit like Putin.
Time to get Ukraine a different method of communication right the fuck away. This is a threat, not a boast.
Really? I figure we just take that power away from him
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.
Elon will collapse on his knees if US subsidy on his businesses is switched off.
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Elon will collapse if you hide his ketamine bottle.
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.
Just wait till he walks off negligently ignoring the child. Boom, no more human shield.
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.
I’ve watched it too. The image it paints is of someone who has no concept of how children actually behave, presumably because he’s never had a reason to spend time with them before.
It’s not about needing to helicopter over the kid. If I was with a friend and we were walking somewhere together I’d pay more attention to them than that. That kind of full back turned walk away when you clearly expect to be kept up with is disrespectful unless you are actually intending to walk away and leave the person. The fact he felt the need to turn back and hurry the kid along shows he just gave no consideration to the kid.
He does it multiple times too. Walk away; hurry up; walk away; hurry up. This guy is herding this kid he just doesn’t know how to do it, like he expects a retinue or something.
Like you can read it differently if you want but I don’t agree with your assessment. The body language is pretty clear to me.
Yea he obviously doesn’t know much about parenting. Also probably doesn’t have much empathy or mental space he’s willing to commit.
However that is pretty damn normal. I see hundreds of parents and kids each year. The ones who doit properly are few and far between.
The point is why the hell are we talking about it? He’s literally orchestrating a fascist takeover and indirectly killing thousands, why are we wasting our energy on outrage at a minor shitty behaviour than most parents are guilty of?
Because it was on video, it’s easy to digest, and it reveals something about his character. It especially makes clearer his reasons for dragging the kid everywhere he goes; it’s clearly not because he gives a shit about the kid. It makes the abuse a lot more obvious, and detracts from the humanising effect of the kid.
Like if you thought the issue was that people thought the moment had some serious material impact on the kid’s wellbeing, or that he actually lost his kid in a crowd or something, then I think you just missed the point of it entirely.
Also if you thought context makes it better, the people who were physically there and were presumably supporters of him said “you’re leaving your kid”, so it’s like… obviously an issue, by admission of people who wouldn’t want to admit it.
Like you could ask the same thing about his Nazi salute. We focused on it because it tells us something about who he is. The exact posture of his hand in that moment didn’t physically hurt anyone, it’s about the message it sends, and that message is going to hurt people.
And yes bad parents are everywhere, and Elon is unsurprisingly among them.
This is super basic stuff.
You were doing so well before the last line which comes over as haughty and suggests you’ve not actually got any solid arguments. “It’s like this because”.
Anyway I disagree, it was a nothing burger and I object to your nonsensical conflation of that with a seig heil. I’d call that a Reddit moment but this place has a different name.
That’ll do me for this conversation, we disagree and that’s fine. Have a nice day.
At a certain point I realised I was explaining the super obvious, and I wanted to point that out.
If it offended you, sit with that feeling. Maybe it’s trying to tell you something.
And the tone he took with Sikorski when the latter reminded him that Poland is paying for a lot of Starlinks in Ukraine once more show their attitude to their (former) allies and why we need to cut those people loose and develop - or mass-deploy - self-reliant technologies like Eutelsat as quickly as we can. (I don’t have the exact wording on hand but it was something akin to “Silence, little man…”)
Remind me: why do we allow the worst of humanity to get into positions of power?
They crave more and more while decent people stop when they have what they need to be comfortable
And THAT is exactly the fucking problem Muskrat
This is probably the only way he can get erections.
Interesting. So it won’t happen unless musk specifically does it. So if musk is not around then it could not happen. Very good to know.
We should package Elon up and ship him to the Ukrainian front lines to fight the good fight
We’ll need to surround every Tesla store with cops. It will be like crossing a picket line to buy one, and should be protested as such.
We need to learn from France. https://electrek.co/2025/03/03/a-dozen-tesla-cars-burned-at-store-arson-is-suspected-amid-global-protests/
Fuck yeah.
