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Poland blasts Musk for slowing Kyiv’s Starlink: ‘Big man, are you playing politics?’
(www.independent.co.uk)
That Elon is one rotten motherfuker
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He's certainly never been an actual father to his children. So that's a pretty sucint description of him.
But did he ever fuck their mothers? Or just IVF?
Just IVF AFAIK, but not entirely sure
They botched his dick up and no women wants a dude pushing a tiny rope. I have no evidence, just Elon Musk’s behavior.
Kinda to be expected. I've heard that the Polish don't get along with Nazis...
Ehh....
Smart Polish people don't but it turns out humanity is worthless
Poles hate nazis so much they're about to elect a far-right government.
Sikorski wrote in a post on X
ah yes, of course, as a country you have so few other lines of communication, best to use the enemy platform to be sure.
EDIT for OP: reply has been deleted, not sure what point I was making as Poland pays for Starlink.
EDIT 2: undeleted as i did not delete this quick enough it seems :/
Seems logical to post to Elon on his account, where else would you post a message to him?
A social media platform only survives because people frequent, interact, and post. He can go any other platform because who cares if Elon sees it, he doesn't give a shit. All he's doing is validating the x platform. He can shitpost about this anywhere else
The point is that it's a direct message from the Polish foreign minister to Elon Musk.
It would be stupid to post it anywhere else.
I absolutely hate X and everything Elon Musk, but there are situations that call for what is called proper channels.
And in this case X is the proper channel.
No it's not, they could just do a press release or other things serious governments do
Sure, but you know, if you want to send a message to someone, best to send it in their language right? Same idea.
How about they use that time for something that would actually change anything. Like pressuring their inner party to create a plan if they ever regain power
It's legit fucking bonkers to go on Elon Musk's Social Media Platform because you're upset about Elon Musk's Internet Connection. FFS, at least pretend you have a Threads account or something, you hack.
Like, people want to get mad at Elon and Friends for being a pack of greedy, degenerate parasites. And they would be right to do so. But when you defend guys like Donald Tusk, who have only ever known how to kowtow to one foreign business interest or another? Slavish loyalty to the private sector got you into this mess. Vowing to maybe one day switch from Coke to Pepsi isn't going to get you out.
To be fair starlink is largely subsidized by the military
Threads
Does Elon have an account on Threads to post to?
It's sending the message to an address where the recipient actually receives it.
Do you think Elon musk reads everything that people @ him on twitter
Fuck Musk. Seriously.
I wanted to know if a reason was given and I found it in another article:
Musk said that Starlink is not licensed to clients who are using weapons, and that the Ukrainian military was linked to a separate network called Starshield, which is operated by the US government. “This is not under SpaceX control,” Musk wrote.
The article goes on to say that the ukrainian military is using Starlink and was not warned the use would be restricted.
Reuters has an explainer article here but I still don't get it so I won't try and pull a quote lol.
When looking for that I came across an article from a previous time service was cut:
During a pivotal push by Ukraine to retake territory from Russia in late September 2022, Elon Musk gave an order that disrupted the counteroffensive and dented Kyiv’s trust in Starlink, the satellite internet service the billionaire provided early in the war to help Ukraine’s military maintain battlefield connectivity.
I'm glad the program to bring broadband internet to remote areas of my province cancelled their contract. Of course, they could always sign a new one, but relying on Starlink would make me nervous.
It's complete ass that the Temu Batman villain is building out what should be the coolest fucking tech jump of our lives. I could have Internet access in places I haven't dreamed of, could do online work in the peace of the woods, but have to pay this mega blocks joker for the privilege.
For the record, this tech is also literally destroying the field of astronomy. There are so many fucking satellites from it that they are blocking views and becoming extremely close to causing kessler syndrome.
But... But... But my convenience! How can you expect people to live without convenience?
apparently it was starshield, starlink rebranded as a government, program. i think it was likely trump that turned it off.
Elon controls every aspect of it. Being a "government" program is just for tax fraud purposes.
yes but Musk funded the trump campaign and Musk is trying to keep trump in office so it’s fine to also blame Musk.
Pressure the EU to issue an arrest warrant Poland!
Is Musk playing politics? A strongly worded question.
He sure the hell is playing politics, seems like he is trying to control the world with his money.
Nothing wrong with that, wrong is the USA killing the world.
Why USA should kill kids and start wars in middle East? Why USA should have any say how the world runs?
Trump wants to be best friends with Putin and Musk is such a suck up he will do whatever he's told to do
In capital letters blame TRUMP!…….hateful little mentally challenged degenerate!
All signs point to Trump and the Pentagon…..he’s mad because Zelensky won’t give up to Trumps Big Boss, Putin!.AMARIKKKA is badly broken and should be boycotted totally by every Democratic country on this planet……
