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[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 196 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 59 points 4 months ago

That really will do wonders for the "don't buy American" waves that's washing over Europe at the moment.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago

But it made him feel really important for a while, which is all that matters.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

He sounds like a shitty Bond villain

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[-] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 144 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 93 points 4 months ago

Don't forget Elon chickened out on the 1v1 fight with Zuckerberg. He's all talk

[-] Walk_blesseD 6 points 4 months ago

He didn't chicken out, his mum just said he wasn't allowed! /j

What a loser

[-] prole 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] GreyDawn@lemmy.world 101 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 22 points 4 months ago

US, Russian and Hungarian

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Anyone not already second guessing would be fools.

[-] mbrailer@mstdn.social 78 points 4 months ago

@MicroWave Elon Musk truly is a James Bond villain, right down to bragging about his evil master plan to take over the world.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 45 points 4 months ago

He's doing that supervillain thing with his fingers in the picture too.

[-] Appleseuss@lemmy.world 64 points 4 months ago

Musk's bodyguards have the opportunity to be heroes of the world right now. They would go down in history as great men.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Devmapall@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Can't be having those guards kill the new emperor. Makes sense

I wonder if the guards expected it or not

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Even if everyone agreed with them at the time, it was unavoidable at the time. You couldn't have soldiers kill their emperor.

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

I hope they did it fully aware of the consequences.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

Old claw claw was everyone's fool till he wasn't.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

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

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 56 points 4 months ago

It is almost like this Nazi is working against the interest of democracy and supporting the interest of a piece of shit like Putin.

[-] Retropunk64@lemmy.ml 42 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's why you don't trust these cunts. They're fucking evil. Also, PACE motherfucker.

[-] credo@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

Primary, alternate, contingency, emergency [comms] planning. For the uninitiated.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Geobloke@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Really? I figure we just take that power away from him

[-] Litebit@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

Elon will collapse if you hide his ketamine bottle.

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] rraggl@feddit.nl 32 points 4 months ago

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...")

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Slartibartfast@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 21 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] Litebit@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Ukraine will help you switch it off with fireworks.

[-] Eggscellent@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago

If he really believed that, it would already be off.

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

This is probably the only way he can get erections.

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Since when is he an American billionaire?

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Since he became president of the US.

[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

And THAT is exactly the fucking problem Muskrat

[-] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

We should package Elon up and ship him to the Ukrainian front lines to fight the good fight

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