Anyone else concerned for the Musk / NAFO fans confused as to how they're supposed to pick a side but none of it makes sense because that would require a nuanced view? Nah, me neither.
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Always exercise critical skepticism when reading "news" like this. There is no telling how much if any of it is actually true or whether it's some kind of psyop bullshit. And i would certainly not take someone like Musk at their word as to their alleged motivation for doing what is claimed that they did.
Agreed. A Hexbear user pointed this out in the comments:
This whole situation feels like copium for the failing CO.
Like fuck Musk, of course, but at this point it's hard to ignore that Ukraine's having a rough time. So Liberals are going to look for anything they can to make excuses, not unlike how Neo-Nazis make excuses for Germany's failure in WWII, by blaming the weather or pitting the blame for failure on one or two figures.
Starlink also sucks, it's genuinely horrid internet. It's only useful if you're far from cell signal and you want to access social media or streaming services, and at that, only if you're willing to accept buffering and snail-slow speeds. It's not something a military would want to exclusively use for coordination. Ukraine's military probably has its own internet, and its own secondary lines of communication. Blaming Starlink outages is simply illogical.
One way of reading the 'news' is as a giant advert for Starlink. So powerful it can tip the scales of war. Now (a) do what the imperialists tell you to do, otherwise they'll turn their power against you and (b) don't forget to buy the platinum subscription package for course-of-history-changing results.
"Blame the weather" it hit me like a brick realizing this is actually what these losers did 😭😭😭😭
Starlink internet is fine, in my experience. Fuck Musk tho.
They were caught using discord so honestly I don't think we're dealing with a real army that knows about the niche software
Seems like another wonder weapon that would've fixed everything. There's been countless wonder weapons sent to Ukraine that ended up being useless.
why do they depend on starlink lol? are these "smart" drones that need to be connected to the internet? 😂
The data has to get around somehow...
The libs(?) are so thirsty for war, they'll even throw their own arch technopriest under the bus.
I think he's a fascist in libertarian clothing.
He’s a capitalist acting in his own self-interest and happens to hold some US conservative views, simple as that.
But he's also quite fascist too
Fun fact: During World War II, those who aided and abetted the enemy, usually got 2 in the brain.
Unless you were a capitalist, then you got reparations for your destroyed factories in Nazi Germany
d/w they helped balance those losses through operation paperclip
This is a fantasy... both General Motors and Ford profited off the nazi war machine and, as has been mentioned: these investments were protected by the U.S. government under pressure from business interests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm
Maybe I’m reading this wrong but did it happen last year? I thought it happened just a few days ago???
It happened last year
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