The tech billionaire and Trump adviser “donated” Starlink service to the White House. The move resembles a previous maneuver by Microsoft, which used “free” trials to lock in costly upgrades across the federal government.
There’s a very good premium episode of This Machine Kills from a week+ ago which touches on this topic. It’s is a conversation with Katie Wells and totally worth a listen.
the difference is microsoft’s products actually worked.
remember the time that Leon Skum turned starlink off for Ukraine just before a Russian attack?
he can never again be trusted. especially when it comes to safety and security
After all of the sketchy contracts that musk seems to be getting under this regime, the next administration should nationalize SpaceX. With their corrupt self dealing, perhaps give him a dollar or so for it.
Americans don’t have HALF the balls. Cowards to the last.
Okay, if this was happening in your country, what would you do that would actually stop fascism?
Oh, don’t worry- we’re all aware it’s coming to our country. And we’re armed.
I love how every time Americans are challenged on their lack of urgency, the response is always to pull a tu quoque, though. Never fails.
Your answer is you’re armed? Does that mean you’ll shoot and kill the bad people who rise to power in your country?
What do you want me to do? I’m fucking out there protesting. Shit I’ll be at another rally today. I wish things were different but I’m not a coward and I’m doing what I can. I’m sorry.
So you’re … going to parades.
100% this.
The well regulated militia in the most armed country in the world is just the typical exceptionalism story. Talk is cheap but when it comes to act, americans are just little bitches. Hollywood can whitewash the history later.
For decades the American left has been, on the whole, anti-firearms. There simply are not enough of us who own and train with guns. If/when a civil war happens we lose. And that’s before you start taking into account drones and surveillance. People keep making fun of the 2A but seem to conveniently forget that damn near half the electorate just ceded the power of arms to the other half out of fear.
At the end of the day it only takes a Luigi.
66% of Republicans vs 41% of Democrats and 45% of independents. I still don’t like those numbers.
Folded like a lawn chair the second a dictator pops up to pry every past remaining bit of wealth and power out of our hands.
That‘s how silicon valley has been operating for longer than I live. You bet that‘s what‘s happening as has been happened a million times.
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“There’s nothing more expensive than a free gift.” - Michel de Montaigne
Not really though. Starlinkn doesn’t scale up well. And it only makes sense in niche circumstances. And it is vulnerable. You could easily imagine a future president just taking it over for national safety reasons.
Elonia has proven such concerns already with actions.
