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U.S. sanctions on Russia meant that Starlink satellite connection near Crimea could not be turned on for a Ukrainian military operation without permission from the U.S. president, Elon Musk said at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Sept. 12.

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[-] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

Lol, funny how that's a totally different reason than he first gave, now that he saw the backlash

And unsurprising that he's using it as an opportunity to double down on his new conservative pandering, but somehow making it "Biden wouldn't let me!"

The guy is a bullshitter, professional con-man and attention seeker, and before you tell me he "invented" Tesla...

[-] Hanabie@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The US really need an alternative to this guy. If a private person with zero democratic legitimacy can influence wars in which the USA have picked a side, and support the enemy, mechanisms are needed.

[-] Givesomefucks@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Republicans have spent a literal lifetime sabotaging the government at any opportunity so stuff can be privatized...

That's already the alternative, we don't need to find one. We just need to go back to taxing the wealthy, and using that money for public services.

Internet should be a public utility, and all the money we give to SpaceX should have went to NASA where the government would have gotten a return on investment from parents.

People laugh at how crazy the predictions of the future from 1960 was, but if we kept funding NASA we might all have hoverboards and flying cars by now. We got a lot of really cool shit from just a decade of NASA in their hey day.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

He's had days to come up with better horseshit than that.

[-] wagesj45@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Every time I see a celebrity fuckup like this, who almost certainly has a PR team on call (or could afford one if they don't), I take their situation and plug it into ChatGPT and almost always it spits out a better PR strategy and statement than they come up with.

The artists and writers are gonna be fine in the AI apocalypse. It's the PR firms that need to be scared.

[-] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago
[-] jsdz@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Ha! Good one, Elon. Give whichever of your writers came up with that one a promotion.

[-] Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Why would he promote them? They’ve completed their work; they can expect a pink slip on Friday, retroactive to 2 minutes after they submitted their marketing brief.

[-] wetnoodle@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Why the fuck does elon know anything about how and where starlink is being deployed when he's making the pentagon pay to allow Ukraine's use of it militarily?

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, he is in charge of the company.

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

If that were true, he wouldn't be getting investigated by the Senate. He's just making up excuses to see what sticks.

[-] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Does he need the President’s permission to wipe?

[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Go back to South Africa where you DON'T belong, Dutchie.

[-] Ignacio@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Musk says he didn't turn on Starlink near Crimea due to US sanctions on Russia

WRONG! Crimea is Ukraine, you dumb fuck.

[-] athos77@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Fucking bullshit.

[-] narcogen@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Why would sanctions against Russia affect Starlink operation in Crimea, which is part of Ukraine?

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