'How am I in this war?': New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire's Ukraine dilemma

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html

Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”

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Donjuanme@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 2y (6 replies)

I fucking hate this country. Government supporting one side while idiot civilians do all they can to help the other. It's not a war crime, but I feel like it should be treason.

vegivamp@feddit.nl · 12 pts · 2y

Well, the US is involved in the war, even if indirectly, and considers Ukraine a strategic partner, so one could say he's acting against the interests of the US.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 2y (2 replies)

The ol' Forderooo

nutandcross@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

That sounds Australian 🤔

Taleya@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 2y

Nah mate that would be the fordo

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

We should, at the very least, tar them with the term 'fifth column.'

Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Honestly the term isn't used enough to describe Billionaires with how often they'll sell out their home country or the one they reside in.

Scrof@sopuli.xyz · 24 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Cocksucker.

emmanuel_car@kbin.social · 21 pts · 2y

Hey now, that’s offensive to cocksuckers

Yewb@kbin.social · 22 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Lol what type of fucking photoshopped image nonsense is this?

That looks nothing like him at all.

phoneymouse@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
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asteriskeverything@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

That's fair because the article sounds nothing like him either.

Solumbran@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

Dilemma? What dilemma?

foggy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

We all realized in like 2007 that Facebook has a more comprehensive database on the populace than the FBI.

Then Snowden happened.

Our govt wanted no part in slowing down big tech creating a surveillance state. They all but gave them the green light.

hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Shit like this makes me think the CIA isn't nearly as powerful as we think they are.

zelifcam@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
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