(August 4, 2024 at 10:34 pm)Ivan Denisovich Wrote:

(August 4, 2024 at 6:33 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Makes me wonder how much Russian money is flowing through Tesla, SpaceX, etc. Musk seems to parrot the Kremlin line fairly regularly.

Perhaps none. It's far from impossible that he is simple Kremlin useful idiot.

Entirely possible, sure. But he listens to money, in fact he wanted at one point to cut Ukraine off from Starlink because of money-flow, until the US gov't got involved and threatened to remove contracts.

Quote:Washington
CNN
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Since they first started arriving in Ukraine last spring, the Starlink satellite internet terminals made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been a vital source of communication for Ukraine’s military, allowing it to fight and stay connected even as cellular phone and internet networks have been destroyed in its war with Russia.

So far roughly 20,000 Starlink satellite units have been donated to Ukraine, with Musk tweeting on Friday the “operation has cost SpaceX $80 million and will exceed $100 million by the end of the year.”

But those charitable contributions could be coming to an end, as SpaceX has warned the Pentagon that it may stop funding the service in Ukraine unless the US military kicks in tens of millions of dollars per month.

Documents obtained by CNN show that last month Musk’s SpaceX sent a letter to the Pentagon saying it can no longer continue to fund the Starlink service as it has. The letter also requested that the Pentagon take over funding for Ukraine’s government and military use of Starlink, which SpaceX claims would cost more than $120 million for the rest of the year and could cost close to $400 million for the next 12 months.

“We are not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine, or fund the existing terminals for an indefinite period of time,” SpaceX’s director of government sales wrote to the Pentagon in the September letter.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics/...index.html

I think that highest-bidder thinking drives him. Okay; it's a private business and needs some profit. But hey, if people get killed because they aren't paying for your service and you cut it off, what does that make you?

Right, a ransomer. The Pentagon paid his ransom. He was all too happy to twist the screws.

I'm glad to help the Pentagon fund this inasmuch as it helps Ukraine fight for survival. I am very unhappy that my tax money has to enrich such a shitbag. But we all have choices.

(August 4, 2024 at 11:42 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(August 4, 2024 at 10:34 pm)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: Perhaps none. It's far from impossible that he is simple Kremlin useful idiot.

Entirely possible, sure. But he listens to money, in fact he wanted at one point to cut Ukraine off from Starlink because of money-flow, until the US gov't got involved and threatened to remove contracts.

Quote:Washington
CNN
—
Since they first started arriving in Ukraine last spring, the Starlink satellite internet terminals made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been a vital source of communication for Ukraine’s military, allowing it to fight and stay connected even as cellular phone and internet networks have been destroyed in its war with Russia.

So far roughly 20,000 Starlink satellite units have been donated to Ukraine, with Musk tweeting on Friday the “operation has cost SpaceX $80 million and will exceed $100 million by the end of the year.”

But those charitable contributions could be coming to an end, as SpaceX has warned the Pentagon that it may stop funding the service in Ukraine unless the US military kicks in tens of millions of dollars per month.

Documents obtained by CNN show that last month Musk’s SpaceX sent a letter to the Pentagon saying it can no longer continue to fund the Starlink service as it has. The letter also requested that the Pentagon take over funding for Ukraine’s government and military use of Starlink, which SpaceX claims would cost more than $120 million for the rest of the year and could cost close to $400 million for the next 12 months.

“We are not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine, or fund the existing terminals for an indefinite period of time,” SpaceX’s director of government sales wrote to the Pentagon in the September letter.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics/...index.html

I think that highest-bidder thinking drives him. Okay; it's a private business and needs some profit. But hey, if people get killed because they aren't paying for your service and you cut it off, what does that make you?

Right, a ransomer. The Pentagon paid his ransom. He was all too happy to twist the screws.

I'm glad to help the Pentagon fund this inasmuch as it helps Ukraine fight for survival. I am very unhappy that my tax money has to enrich such a shitbag. But we all have choices.

It shows that he want to earn on everything, morality be damned but I wouldn't say that it points to him getting cash from Kremlin. I have no idea (nor I really care) if he got funds from Moscow but I do see him as a type of scumbag who wouldn't be opposed to sucking putin's dick for free. Russia after all stands for things that shit stained far righters like him like.

Either he doesn't know what a civil war is, or he thinks Europe is a country. Possibly both.



Boru

(August 4, 2024 at 5:26 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: It's over. The smartest man in the world says so.

Quote:Musk Declares Civil War In Britain To Be “Inevitable”

Elon Musk, the Tesla and X chief, has said that civil war in the UK is “inevitable”. Responding to a clip posted on social media showing recent rioting in Britain, Mr Musk wrote: “Civil war is inevitable.” The comment received over two million views.

https://inshorts.com/en/news/elon-musk-s...2788236081

A couple of hundred morons kick up a fuss over lies they invented = civil war now?
I'm not sure who's more idiotic, Musk, Farage or Yaxley-Lenon...

Elon Musk’s daughter confirms her dad is a POS.

Elon Musk is suing all the companies in the US because nobody wants to advertise on X.

Well, maybe I should sue every woman who refused to have sex with me.

Quote:X CEO Linda Yaccarino on Tuesday announced that the social media platform has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA).

In a video posted to X, Yaccarino accuses the organizations — along with GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted and Unilever — of what Yaccarino calls a “systematic illegal boycott” of the platform.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/x-file...l-boycott/

(August 6, 2024 at 12:56 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Elon Musk is suing all the companies in the US because nobody wants to advertise on X.

Well, maybe I should sue every woman who refused to have sex with me.

Quote:X CEO Linda Yaccarino on Tuesday announced that the social media platform has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA).

In a video posted to X, Yaccarino accuses the organizations — along with GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted and Unilever — of what Yaccarino calls a “systematic illegal boycott” of the platform.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/x-file...l-boycott/

That’s the type specimen of a frivolous lawsuit, both because ‘systematic illegal boycott’ is a semantically null phrase and companies declining to buy advertising isn’t a boycott.

Boru

(August 6, 2024 at 12:56 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Elon Musk is suing all the companies in the US because nobody wants to advertise on X.

Well, maybe I should sue every woman who refused to have sex with me.

Quote:X CEO Linda Yaccarino on Tuesday announced that the social media platform has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA).

In a video posted to X, Yaccarino accuses the organizations — along with GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted and Unilever — of what Yaccarino calls a “systematic illegal boycott” of the platform.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/x-file...l-boycott/

Citizens United ruled that corporations are people, and per that ruling, enjoy First Amendment rights. One of those rights is the freedom of assembly, "[...] which can mean physically gathering with a group of people to picket or protest; or associating with one another in groups for economic, political or religious purposes." (https://www.annenbergclassroom.org/first...LsQAvD_BwE).

It follows that corporations cannot be forced to do business with other corporations by governmental decree, which is what this lawsuit seeks. Not only is their boycott quite legal, X's attempt to force them to advertise on its platform is an effort to seek an unconstitutional ruling.

(August 6, 2024 at 12:56 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Elon Musk is suing all the companies in the US because nobody wants to advertise on X.

Well, maybe I should sue every woman who refused to have sex with me.

Quote:X CEO Linda Yaccarino on Tuesday announced that the social media platform has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA).

In a video posted to X, Yaccarino accuses the organizations — along with GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted and Unilever — of what Yaccarino calls a “systematic illegal boycott” of the platform.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/x-file...l-boycott/

I guess it is easier to look for fault in others than admit to transforming twitter into so big alt right shithole that even corporations (which are anything but moral) don't want to do anything with.

X may have standing in this case if there were agreements in place that were transferred to Space Karen when he took ownership. If the advertisers failed to uphold their contracts then there is clear standing.