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Marcion's avatar

Ha! Perfect. For those who don't know the backstory...

This took a whole year to become public. Last year NATO was planning a massive drone strike on Russian naval fleets, using Starlink. When Elon found out, he had an almost existential panic with the realization that his tech would be used for murder. And, he likened it to Pearl Harbor, wondering if direct involvement by US in an attack on Russian fleets could escalate into WW3. So he pulled the plug, and told them use your own tech. The attack didn't happen.

So much to unpack. How did one billionaire get so powerful that he can unilaterally override government decisions? More importantly, how did the military industrial complex yet again manipulate their way into big tech, exploiting it to spy, murder and start wars.

One thing for certain - the media will not have any serious discussion of any of these subjects. They just have to continue painting Elon as a Benedict Arnold. I'm old enough to remember when Elon was the darling of the left, and best buds with Gore. Now he, Rogan, and so many others are pariahs to the left, with their crazy anti-war, anti-woke, & free speech ideas.

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AnnieRose's avatar

Huh, I thought that was about a week ago, our Starlink was out for about an hour and I read it had to do with Ukraine.

Re: Musk, if you take a survey of all of “his” businesses, who his friends are, his connection to the WEF (it has almost been erased online), he is a card carrying globalist without a doubt. The Corbett Report does a good rundown on him, all sourced. Not to mention his DoD contracts and the billions he’s received from the gov. He’s a good actor tho, playing a part.

What got my curiosity up was when he posted a graphic of a 🫃 on Twitter and compared it to Bill Gates, it was over the top. Anyone that knows anything these days, understands that Gates is a bad dude, so to align himself with that group in such a crude way…it had a serious stench to it..even if I thought it was funny. He’s playing sooo many people. Why would we need a South African billionaire to “save our free speech” that is guaranteed in our founding documents? Are we programmed to look to “saviors”?

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Beanz-meanz Heinz's avatar

A lot of fans are drawn in by his magic toupee.

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Oracle's avatar

Double++ like!

Someone should print a bunch of fake NYTIMES and WAPOS and swap them out in the racks.

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Duly Noted's avatar

Terrifying. This video opened my eyes in regards to Google.

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SHARON MAHOE's avatar

What funnnnn!!!

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William Voelz's avatar

Even if he didn’t say “f you”.....he should have !! Perfect.

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Ashley Hall's avatar

With AI these days, it's getting more and more difficult to know what is real. Even if it wasn't true, it sure made me happy LOL

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Paul's avatar

Either way, it was fantastic.

Jake was a good sport, too !

If it was real, maybe he would have laughed. We all can use one !

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JP Spatzier's avatar

Laughter is always best medicine 😂😂

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Mckeekitty's avatar

Very,, very, funny!

Very!

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Josh Blunt's avatar

Hilarious! Thanks for sharing.

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Niclas Hallander's avatar

Firstly, the CNN spoof is great! I laughed my socks off when I saw it first on Jimmy Dore. 🤣

Maybe they can rebrand CNN as ONN, 'O' as in Onion? 😉

But secondly, just to clarify, in case someone missed these details and nobody else has already said it in another comment/thread:

1) It was a request from *Ukraine* to Elon Musk, not from the US empire, eh I mean government.

2) The request was to *expand* the Starlink coverage *to* Crimea which *wasn't* covered by Starlink. Musk didn't turn off anything, he denied to turn it *on*.

3) He figured it would be illegal for him to turn it on, since (no matter what every spinmeister/narrative manager of the empire is trying to convince us of) Crimea is part of Russia, and Russia is (of course) sanctioned to the nth degree.

I'm not so sure about Musk's conscience or morality; he is in bed with the empire deep and well enough. His changes at X/Twitter are mostly superficial. The new CEO is giddy and proud of her 'freedom of speech, not freedom of reach' policy. If the US empire had asked (a.k.a. told) him to expand Starlink to cover Crimea then I'm 100% certain that he would have. And we'd all be history now, with no one left to record it... ☢️🍄

Sorry for my bad grammar, I'm Swedish.

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Anne's avatar

I went to college with Jake. He is a human being and I hate to dehumanize him. But, even before CNN, he was a jerk.

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K Furey's avatar

Posting this at least once a week would not be too often, I should think.

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SHARON MAHOE's avatar

And perhaps same to the ladies of the view

Their false eyelashes may fall off though

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Jimychanga's avatar

"You just can't make this stuff up!". Fiction is far better than truth these days.

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AnnieRose's avatar

I seriously don’t know how to tell them part anymore, it’s as if “The Bee” is scripting reality! 🤪

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Skupe's avatar

Instead of you, the phrase should have been F OFF!

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Deb Hawthorne's avatar

That was so great. I laughed. It felt good. Thank u for posting🤣🤣🤣

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JEFF MANCUSO's avatar

Musk most likely stopped a lot of escalation but nato and the U.S. love war so.....

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Unagnu's avatar

If everyone saw the spoof and believed it, what does that SAY about the true state of the nation/people's mood? Yup leaders, you are sitting on a tiger you can't dismount. It will EAT you ALIVE if you falter. And you will. Will be ugly for all, but you will gone and done with. The world, well, that will not be in good shape. But then again, that's what G.O.D. is for, NO?

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