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[–] 3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

You do understand that it makes Starlink very hard to differentiate from a military system. Starlink has stockholders and a board and Musk is still beholdant to them. What if Russia starts downing the satelites? What then?

btw Starlink has an actual military side. It's called a "starshield" that is the "murderdrone plan" while starlink is the civilian side with speed limits on recievers and all that. We can't know what Ukraine really is using or was using and people are discussing that when people in Ukraine and Nato say starlink for Ukraine they mean starshield.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    If Starlink wasn't run by a fascist supremacist corporate dickhead, they'd offer their plan for fucking free, to show their support towards Ukraine. That was the whole fucking point. This was going on right when the US and Europe were offering military and weapons aid.

    Instead, Elon Musk took one look at Rule of Acquisition #34 and ran with it. He used it as a PR stunt, and took it away to ask for more money.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 week ago

    If Starlink wasn’t run by a fascist... they’d offer their plan for fucking free.

    This is capitalism, and SpaceX (aka Starlink) is a publicly traded corporation. It doesn't matter who is in charge of SpaceX, the CEO will be required to operate in the best interests of the shareholders. Ukraine is not one of those shareholders. Therefore, per your own statement, the CEO of SpaceX will always be a fascist since they'll prioritize profit over the Ukrainian people.

    This is kinda the point "The Tankies" are making.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    If he was not a fascist, like fascist Trump he would be supporting our the fascists in OUR war against fascists Russia and fascist pootin.

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    inb4: "fucking tankie"

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