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Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships (www.thedailybeast.com)
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Original source: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html

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[–] Heresy_generator@kbin.social 161 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

β€œHow am I in this war?” Musk asks Isaacson. β€œStarlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”

Musk, transparent as ever, makes sure to tell his biographer that it's about peace, man, and has nothing to do with his love of authoritarian regimes.

[–] Sinnz@feddit.de 75 points 2 years ago

Nothing more peaceful than supporting an authoritarian war criminal πŸ₯°

[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago

β€œHow am I in this war?”

Bitch, you put yourself there!

[–] el_doso@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And a shit eating little shoe-horn of the phrase "Netflix and chill".

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 11 points 2 years ago

He’s just making sure that his personal brand is associated with sexytimes, as per his naming of the Tesla models.

[–] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Didn't his company supply a bunch of Starlinks because of the war? Was he expecting Ukranians needed to watch more Netflix and do more school stuff while getting bombed out by the Ruzzians? What a crock

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that was when he expected Russia to win easily. Probably figured he'd get a little bit of good PR, then Russia wins and then he could say "I tried to help, but I guess it just didn't work out for Ukraine." Just didn't go the way he expected I guess.

That and I don't think he was quite so far down the fascist rabbit hole back then.

[–] reverendsteveii@beehaw.org 19 points 2 years ago

Once the killers have done all the killing they want, peace becomes paramount. Once they've stolen everything they can steal, then theft becomes a crime. A man with a gun kicks in your door, starts eating the food from your fridge and fucks your wife. He's doing good peaceful things and if you resist you're a warmonger.

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 15 points 2 years ago

Maybe if he had any actual knowledge instead of just buying shit and slapping his name on it, he would know that the Internet was originally DARPAnet and was designed for expressly military purposes prior to being co-opted by capitalists.