• @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    367 days ago

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

  • Lit
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    7 days ago

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

  • @rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 days 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.

  • Wren
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    147 days ago

    This is probably the only way he can get erections.

  • FaceDeer
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    2058 days 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.

  • @heavydust@sh.itjust.works
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    1448 days 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.

    • Pasta Dental
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      968 days ago

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

    • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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.

      • @commander@lemmings.world
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        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.

        • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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          37 days ago

          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.

  • @GreyDawn@lemmy.world
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    1078 days 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.

  • Applesauce
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    687 days ago

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

    • Dr. Moose
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      177 days ago

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

    • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      357 days 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.

  • @MyOpinion@lemm.ee
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    587 days 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
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    That’s why you don’t trust these cunts. They’re fucking evil. Also, PACE motherfucker.