What an utter piece of shit.

  • The Snark Urge
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    210 months ago

    Can we start treating billionaires as rogue nations unto themselves? Because that’s frankly how they act.

  • @krayj@sh.itjust.works
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    110 months ago

    Any system capable of manipulating the outcomes of international conflict needs to become property of the government via eminent domain…especially if that system is used…especially if used by an entrepreneur operating without oversight.

  • @Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    110 months ago

    Elon is not the president, a leader, the military, nor a government. This parasite should be in a prison or a brig at the very least. This is fucking treason.

  • @Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    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.

      • @Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
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        -310 months ago

        Exactly, you can't have your cake and eat it - if we want to live in a sane and moral world we shouldn't let private citizens own things that are important, especially not satellite infrastructure

  • @IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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    010 months ago

    I know it’s an anathema to most in the US but the government needs to step up and take Starlink and Space X off Musk for a fair price. He’s way too unstable to be trusted with tech that important.

  • @dimath@ttrpg.network
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    010 months ago

    Wow, this thread. All he did was switching off his satellite network though, not somehow sabotaged the operation.

    • archomrade [he/him]
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      210 months ago

      All the doctor did was switch off life support 🤷‍♂️ it's not like they forced the patient's body to shut down.

      Real "Stanly was attacked by his own heart" vibes.

        • archomrade [he/him]
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          110 months ago

          imagine being so brainwashed that you think owning the life support machine morally entitles you to decide who is kept alive with it.

          • @spitfire@infosec.pub
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            -19 months ago

            Imagine being so brainwashed that you think since someone else owns a life support machine, you have the right to use it to kill people you don’t like.

            • archomrade [he/him]
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              19 months ago

              Weird how the thrust of your statement doesn't change regardless of the status of ownership

              • @spitfire@infosec.pub
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                -19 months ago

                Nope. In this case the doctors machine isn’t a life support system, it’s more like an xray machine. The ownership remains the doctors the entire time. The doctor chooses to stop a patient who wants to use the machine to kill another patient.its his machine to begin with. The ONLY morally correct decision is to not allow it. Get mad at the doctor all you want, at the end of the day you’re advocating for murder.

                • archomrade [he/him]
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                  19 months ago

                  You honestly think who owns the tool being used changes the morality of murder?

                  Nevermind that we're actually talking about war between nation states, not a doctor stopping a hospital patient from, erm, repeatedly shooting someone else with X-ray radiation?

                  What a silly allegory you've come up with

          • @dimath@ttrpg.network
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            -110 months ago

            Good argument, but where do you draw the line? You can save someone right now by an act of a good will, but do you do it?

  • @koljarhr@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Well, the USA and EU also attach conditions on delivered weapons - not to be used against targets in Russia. Also, maybe he is afraid of Russians shooting down his satellites, as they threatened to do.

  • @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
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    -110 months ago

    If he's not careful the US will simply nationalize SpaceX. It's not going to happen in the next couple of years, but this kind of shit will cause it to happen eventually.

  • @PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com
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    -110 months ago

    That's why he's a billionaire: no sense of ethics or morality. Dude has outgrown the moral demands of the invisible hand since he's its undeniable winner. So, like…why should he not interfere in war?