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Starlink: Elon Musk's betrayal of Ukraine is complete

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Re: Starlink: Elon Musk's betrayal of Ukraine is complete

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Post by throwaway44023 »

belter wrote: post #9
mytailorisrich wrote: post #7

I don't know what Musk is thinking or doing but why is there an expectation that a commercial company based on another continent should take side, and what's more should support one specific side?

That is what these guys said... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Nazi Germany was at war with the US.

Re: Starlink: Elon Musk's betrayal of Ukraine is complete

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chiefalchemist wrote: post #6
nonrandomstring wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is well documented. Just search on "Ukraine War Lab". Eric Schmidt, Alex Karp, Peter Thiel and many more are all on record talking about the immense "opportunity" of the Ukraine conflict. They mix clearing mines and curing cancer with drone assassinations and totalitarian technological control, all in the same breath. This is a morality free zone, beyond good and evil. The problem of this "Hogs Heaven" as Bill H…

Exactly. They play by different rules. There's nothing wrong with that per se. The issue is, most of the rest of us. We refuse to admit what's right in front of us. We naively believe they're like us. We live in denial scratching our heads about the rules they do / don't play by. Simply put, we don't truly understand The Game. The fact that I'll likely be down voted only proves my point. Again: hate the game, not the…

> The fact that I'll likely be down voted only proves my point.

You should be upvoted. But I neither upvote nor downvote anyone ever, because that's playing "the game". In fact, I can't. Isn't even talking about upvoting and downvoting forbidden? That's an aspect of what I call "systemic inscrutability" [0]

> Again: hate the game, not the players.

All players have a choice. The players make the game. So it's perfectly possible to hate both. But I find it's a much better energy to love. Love the victims of the game - that's a much surer way to get some downvotes :).

[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/postoffice/

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