• TrackinDaKraken
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    92 months ago

    We’ll need to surround every Tesla store with cops. It will be like crossing a picket line to buy one, and should be protested as such.

  • @[email protected]
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    422 months 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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      372 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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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.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 months 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.

  • FaceDeer
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    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.

  • 52fighters
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    32 months ago

    It would be a shame if the government relieved him of his ownership/control after discovering the company useful for national defense. It won’t be Trump but I hope that’s the result of the next election.

    In the meantime, it looks like his businesses are circling the drain.

  • @[email protected]
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    282 months ago

    And the tone he took with Sikorski when the latter reminded him that Poland is paying for a lot of Starlinks in Ukraine once more show their attitude to their (former) allies and why we need to cut those people loose and develop - or mass-deploy - self-reliant technologies like Eutelsat as quickly as we can. (I don’t have the exact wording on hand but it was something akin to “Silence, little man…”)

  • Applesauce
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    482 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      232 months 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.

    • Dr. Moose
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      172 months ago

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

  • Lit
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    32 months ago

    Ukraine will help you switch it off with fireworks.

    • Bizzle
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      32 months ago

      I would love if Ukraine shot these pieces of shit out of the sky, that would be so funny.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 months ago

    Broadcasting his intention like this really puts a target on his back. He should be more careful… or not, I’ve stocked up on popcorn.

  • HubertManne
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    92 months ago

    Interesting. So it won’t happen unless musk specifically does it. So if musk is not around then it could not happen. Very good to know.

  • @[email protected]
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    402 months 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 months ago

    I don’t think it will, but it will surely feel the effects.

    This is not strictly speaking full-blown betrayal of Ukraine, it just seems that problems remaining unresolved and becoming bigger due to this war being in focus - have become bigger than Ukrainian war from their (that group) point of view.

    The US is the only big power to condemn massacres of Alawites in Syria happening right now, some others have basically blamed the victims, so maybe not all they do is wrong. It’s just words, but at least the right words.

    If Ukraine accepts whatever peace deal they are trying to impose upon it, it’ll still have much more than it would had it surrendered in 2022. In some sense it’d be a win for them. Peace works for Ukraine - their economy is less resource-based than that of Russia, thus requiring competent people and comfortable social climate, not that of war.

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    That’s why you don’t trust these cunts. They’re fucking evil. Also, PACE motherfucker.