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Fucking charge him with something. This is insane... If it's not treason, it sure as hell is undermining the billions of dollars in aid were sending Ukraine. We've sent 76 billion dollars so far.
Yeah, if an unelected CEO can tell a democratically elected government what it can and can't do we're no better than medieval peasants who had to bow and scrape for the nobles' favor
Vote with your wallet. If you hate him so much don’t buy anything from him. It’s a fair meritocracy, if you think you can run a better space satellite company you are welcome to try
Great parody account!
You know at SpaceX and Tesla, there is a layer of management between Musk and the actual production team, that does nothing but run interference. Their job is to make sure the companies stay running and moving forward, DESPITE, what Musk says.
That sounds like it was made up by somebody who is jealous of his intelligence and leadership skills
My dude, a rock wouldn't be jealous of Musk's "intelligence"
Then why are you?
I think it’s funny that Musk simps think peoppe are jealous when we criticize him. Honey, I wouldn’t trade places with Musk if you paid me. I already dealt with teenage insecurities, and I’d rather have average amounts of money and people who actually love me than a yawning void in my soul constantly sereking approval from adoring crowds. I want to be decent and useful to the world more than I want to be rich. And I’m not alone. You wanting to be Elon Musk doesn’t mean everyone does.
You people need to stop feeding the trolls. If you actually think this isn't a satirical account after reading the other shit he has posted, then you yourself are likely insane.
Stop wasting your time, the only way to make them go away is to ignore them.
Go back to X, Elon. Nobody wants you here.
“It’s a fair meritocracy…” I do not think those words mean what you think they mean.
It's been like that for decades(centuries?). The rich do as they please and the rest of us are treated like livestock. It's impressive citizens don't revolt more than they do these days.
But they keep giving us beer and bread so we arre happy.
That won't work forever.
Especially when the price of bread keeps rising faster than wages.
Stop trying to tell a private citizen and businessman what he can and can’t do with his own business
He got to where he is with government funding.
Turn off the tap. Now.
First of all he got there by being the best businessman in the world, lots a hard work and plucky stick-to-it-ive-ness plus a keen eye for innovation. Think about this. If he hadn’t used his space satellites to stop the Ukies, Putin could have launched the Nukies! Basically he saved the planet and this is the thanks you give him. No good deed goes unpunished
This parody tankie account is too close to the real thing to work. Leave some room for satire, broskie.
I don’t know what that is
lmao
Best business man in the world. Buys an unprofitable company for 40b, then runs it directly into the ground. Genius.
It’s part of a bigger strategy that you wouldn’t understand
Neither does he.
His brain is too big and powerful for lazy poors to keep up with his plans. He works in mysterious ways.
Strategically losing billions, bold plan cotton
The troll account is annoying when you're crowding out other discussion.
I’m the only one bringing common sense to these discussions at all
He got where he is off the back of slavery in an emerald mine his father runs you twat
When you have a contract with the federal government it comes with stipulations. Don't "private citizen" this. It's not a mom and pop store.
But Starlink DIDN'T have a contract with the US government, DOD, or Ukraine government. That's the point. And they went ahead and used it for guided munitions.
Which is a violation of the terms of service and not what anyone at SpaceX had intended.
Problem is, that's exactly how they ended up being used!
You're tracking that Starlink sells service directly to the US military for activities that aren't exactly tickle parties right?
True, but didn't Starshield happen after this stuff? I guess I need to relook at the timeline. But as I remember things, he started tossing starlink access at Ukraine, tried to get DoD to pay, they chose not to. Then he started to these games, and after that DoD started paying up. Starshield was announced a little bit after that.
Where do you draw the line? Should he also be allowed to sell his services to Russia? Should private companies from the US be allowed to sell arms to Russia?
Never mind that. Let’s suppose he can sell his services to whomever he likes.
What about the privacy implications? How did he know that specific attack was planned? Can he just listen in on any communication going across Starlink? I don’t think anyone should be okay with that.
I'm not sure where the line is but expecting a private citizen to provide vital defense infrastructure to your foreign allies and continually act in your best interests is clearly past it.
The issue is removing infrastructure on your own personal whims when it goes against what your own tax payers are paying for, especially when they have funded your company / companies. It's obscene.
Of course. That’s called capitalism and the free market. Don’t like it? Move to Venezuela
Nah, I'd rather attack the cancer that is capitalism at the source and work to rid the world of its scourge once and for all. Sorry you chose the loser's side.
There's currently sanctions on buying or selling a lot of things from Russia aren't there?
"Citizen" is the critical word here
"Ukraine" telling a "US citizen" what to do, are the critical words here.
Why? I think capitalism’s a toxic system and he has no moral right to his wealth.