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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 23 points 1 week ago

This is a perfect example of why we have to confiscate the bulk of the fortunes of Sociopathic Oligarchs.

We have this guy operating his own foreign policy in a very sensitive war with nuclear weapons in the mix. The rest of the world shouldn't have to be at the mercy of his arrogance and hubris, waiting for him to get bored with this game, and move onto the next one, hopefully before he blows up the planet.

He has been proven to be massive national and global security threat, who will only become more dangerous as he hoards more money. Just strip his citizenship, confiscate his money and his companies, and deport him to South Africa. Then use his example as a threat to other Sociopathic Oligarchs.

[-] Treetrimmer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Nah he needs to be publicly executed.

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[-] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Woooooh. Musks security team is a gold mine. They will forever be employed because of this dudes stupidity.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

if that doesnt work, he will just use one of his various 14 human shield babies.

[-] kebab@endlesstalk.org 16 points 1 week ago

Looking forward to seeing EU alternatives for Starlink

[-] hark@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Alternatives would be great! My only concern is the number of satellites that have to be continually launched while older satellites are burned up after just five years. That's thousands of satellites per service provider having to be continually replaced. Seems wasteful, but maybe I'm thinking the resource usage is greater than it really is in the grand scheme of things.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

That five year figure is the time it takes to deorbit if the satellite goes dead, not the lifespan, from my understanding.

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[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Honestly, someone hurry up and launch an alternative! Chinese are setting up one but I wouldn't trust them either.

[-] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I think they should be taken down or taken over by another entity. They were launched under the premise they were a utility and it turns out they're being used military.

I dont mean the internet access itself but the giving and striping of access to suit a military agenda goes beyond the pervue of an organization claiming to be an ISP or commercial utility.

[-] kebab@endlesstalk.org 5 points 1 week ago

For starters, the Great Chinese Firewall blocks access even to lemmy

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It depends, maybe they like the contents of some instances like this one

Although on some blocks I can't disagree:

[-] kebab@endlesstalk.org 2 points 1 week ago

The big instances are blocked (like yours, i.e. lemmy.world) while the small ones that the CCP didn’t catch up with yet (like mine) are working fine. It’s a censorship went wrong moment

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago
[-] kebab@endlesstalk.org 5 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah, my bad. It was .ml that’s blocked. Kinda ironic given that it’s one of he most pro-CCP instances out there

[-] zeca@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 week ago

What do you mean? Chinese people cant host a lemmy server? Or just the main servers worldwide arent available there?

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Anyone can host, but if you can't federate it's of very limited value.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Oooh interesting, network bisection problems.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Can't even watch porn with Chinese internet, westerners won't survive a day on using that internet without a VPN.

[-] kebab@endlesstalk.org 4 points 1 week ago

Actually porn is what makes many Chinese start using the VPNs too

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

yup, they moved to PROXIES, and anti-detect browsers much like reddits getting more sophisticated detection, china is always trying to find a way to detect these methods. from what ive heard on the same forum that ban evades reddit.

[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

This was Elon Musk's way of declaring himself an enemy combatant.

[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was going to say there's no rules against saying "Elon Musk should be killed" here on Lemmy, but then I saw we're on Lemmy.world, and I think they're trying to be the new Reddit.

(For any mods, this is not a call for violence, simply stating a thing that isn't allowed. Please read it again if you think I made a call to violence.)

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[-] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

"Ukraine invaded me first" - Musk

[-] dastanktal@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago

Oh, I remember hearing about this in 2022. There was a ton of speculation about this. I'm glad it's been confirmed.

Hoping one day the MuskRat finds himself behind bars.

[-] NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

When I pointed out the first time this happened, I was pummeled in the comments by people saying that he just doesn't want to be complicit in anything. Okay, but then why did he give Ukraine a bunch of Starlink receivers to begin with? And now this is the second or third time he's fucked the Ukrainians by turning off the service as they're taking back their land.

He a fucking clown. He wants his service used, but he doesn't want any consequences. He just wants to drag the war out and add "Powered by Starlink". He's given himself some control over the conflict, while enriching himself for as long as it continues.

[-] dastanktal@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I wasn't really sure of his reasoning here, but I don't think it was very good to begin with.

Unfortunately, we already know that he has way too much power for a private citizen.

I think in 2022, he still had some fans, he hadn't quite ruined his image all the way yet, even though most of us could see the writing on the wall. It sucks you got jumped for that, though.

I'm in the "We should Nationalize Starlink without giving him a dime" camp as recompense for this crime.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

He likely wants to blackmail Ukraine with it. I now have some guess why the anti-anti-corruption bill was made...

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

why did he give Ukraine a bunch of Starlink receivers

Because those receivers were "free" for the Ukrainians but someone else paid millions for that

Imagine paying $500/month for each "free" receiver because "military applications needs maximum quality" but when the vatnik CEO gets a call from its owner "oh no today it glitched!”

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Oh ya, Musk is still a piece of shit.

[-] Eldritch@piefed.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

* Oh yah, a real hoser!</McKenzie brothers>

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago
[-] Eldritch@piefed.world 2 points 1 week ago

Bob and Doug, from Second City television.

Didn't want anyone to think it was cultural misappropriation or rocking and our neighbors to north. If there ever was a truer hoser than musk I'm not sure who it is

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[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 week ago

How considerate of him to remove all doubt

[-] Alloi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

starlink has over 150 ground locations (ground satelites that ping service to ones in space, and then down to customer recievers) these locations are easily found by a unofficial map.

their main HQ is in hawthorne, california, a short drive from the LA airport. at 1 rocket road.

do with that information as you will, the ground locations are mostly located all over the US.

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 week ago

Huh, I didn’t have ‘war criminal’ on my list of Shitty Things Musk Is. Let’s just add that right below ‘Proud Nazi’

[-] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

He has been a war criminal for a few years now.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

since fall of '22 when he did the same thing first time, then shortly after met with putins circles in qatar.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

It's depressing we had to add that background when he's doing the salute already.

[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 2 points 1 week ago

Normally, I would have advocated for the nationalization of Starlink and SpaceX as a matter of national and global security, but it's not like the current American regime would do any better. I'm not going to be counting on them to investigate, let alone prosecute the affairs of this Russian junkie-stooge either.

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Regardless of who would do better, the entirety of SpaceX and Starlink were paid for using American taxpayer's money and government contracts. We already paid for it, we should own it.

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[-] fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Heil, Shitler!

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