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.
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
We should package Elon up and ship him to the Ukrainian front lines to fight the good fight
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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.
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 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.
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.
Don’t forget Elon chickened out on the 1v1 fight with Zuckerberg. He’s all talk
Zuck would’ve destroyed him too. Dude actually trains in some mma discipline.
I wanna see em both face Luigi.
Only if Luigi gets two guns, and they get none.
He didn’t chicken out, his mum just said he wasn’t allowed! /j
What a loser
Putin has a black belt in Sambo, and also Judo I think. He might be getting old, but the thing about both of those martial arts is that strength isn’t necessarily that important (I mean, unless you’re going up against a worthy opponent obviously), but it’s all about leverage and using your opponent’s momentum against them.
In other words, when you do it right, they kind of throw themselves… Putin would be tossing him around like a fucking ragdoll without breaking a sweat.
I would love to see someone knock Elon down a few pegs… Physically, I mean. Like beat the shit out of him. At least.
It’s my understanding that any martial art is pretty much only good against other people doing the same art.
Most people with black belts in x or y end up getting their asses handed to them by people with experience in real fights.
People who practice purely competition stuff, yes. But there’s a reason the military teaches a blend of martial arts. Combined with real experience it’s even more dangerous. As a quick example, it seems ridiculous that the infantry trains to immobilize people with grappling. Until you remember that they run in packs and their buddy is just going to walk up to the immobilized enemy and shoot them point blank.
Now let’s look at the fantasy fight card here. We have a geriatric billionaire who has never been in a real fight in his life versus a geriatric ex KGB agent who keeps his training current via martial arts.
I’m not a fan of Putin’s international politics, (he keeps getting his ass handed to him), but he would obliterate Musk in a fight. This has all the same flavor of couch potato guys claiming they could hold their own in a tennis match with a woman pro player.
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.
@MicroWave Elon Musk truly is a James Bond villain, right down to bragging about his evil master plan to take over the world.
He’s doing that supervillain thing with his fingers in the picture too.
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.
That’s why you don’t trust these cunts. They’re fucking evil. Also, PACE motherfucker.
Primary, alternate, contingency, emergency [comms] planning. For the uninitiated.
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.
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
Broadcasting his intention like this really puts a target on his back. He should be more careful… or not, I’ve stocked up on popcorn.
