Today's newsletter has a simple message: Elon Musk is a dangerous nation-state-level actor using his massive wealth and power to influence elections, wars, and markets. We must nationalize SpaceX and Starlink and put a stop to billionaire despots. tinyurl.com/wyat91323 - ThreadSky

edzitron.com • 537 days ago

Today's newsletter has a simple message: Elon Musk is a dangerous nation-state-level actor using his massive wealth and power to influence elections, wars, and markets. We must nationalize SpaceX and Starlink and put a stop to billionaire despots.

https://tinyurl.com/wyat91323

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deeters.awful.motorcycles•537 days ago

This was a fun contrast listening to your chat with Neil Degrasse Tyson

unoservix.bsky.social•537 days ago

Musk's fuckery hasn't deterred the Ukrainians anyway. they just attacked the Russian navy in Crimea, like, yesterday, damaging and possibly destroying a large landing ship, a ballistic missile submarine, and a drydock.

ryanjanus.bsky.social•537 days ago

And yet, on that day, he intervened as an individual and vetoed the orders of the Ukranian military by disabling his techology's services.

Imagine if Raytheon had an abort button they would use if a US ally targeted a person on their special investors-only "whitelist" using their technology?

undefeatedmatt.wifeguy.online•537 days ago

Go off, Ed

edzitron.com•537 days ago

Elon Musk cut off Starlink in Crimea as a means of influencing an armed conflict. He is a private citizen who has amassed enough power to help dictators continue their invasions - all so that he can continue buying Russian aluminum and feel important.

https://tinyurl.com/wyat91323

edzitron.com•537 days ago

Some choose to dance around Musk, so let me be abundantly clear: a billionaire reactionary controls America's path to space, wide swaths of satellite internet, and one of the world's largest comms channels. We are living in a dystopia.
https://tinyurl.com/wyat91323

edzitron.com•537 days ago

If Musk is willing to use Starlink as a political weapon, what's stopping him from doing so with SpaceX? Or Tesla? He's already started with Twitter, censoring activists during elections, banning reporters and platforming anti-vaxers. This is *very bad*

https://tinyurl.com/wyat91323

edzitron.com•537 days ago

Musk has already done things that make him less of an entrepreneur and more of an extremely annoying Bond villain. He tests societal boundaries for profit and entertainment. He is dangerous to free speech and society itself.

https://tinyurl.com/wyat91323

edzitron.com•537 days ago

Musk is a thin-skinned modern-day P.T. Barnum who wants to manipulate society for a profit. He controls a network of hundreds of millions of people, has enough money to outrun anyone legally, and is backed by an army of psychopathic simps.

https://tinyurl.com/wyat91323

edzitron.com•537 days ago

Musk's power is a result of a media industry and government that does not know how to deal with billionaires, especially ones with the fragile ego of a teenage boy.

It's time to yank SpaceX's contracts and nationalize it along with Starlink.

https://tinyurl.com/wyat91323

weeklyreader.bsky.social•537 days ago

I inadvertently got myself signed up for Xitter notification emails and was shocked when I spotted an email this am with a Henrik Palmgren post at the top. I thought, “Did I accidentally follow Palmgren?” (I did not.) IMO it was just Xitter/Musk amping Far Right 🐴 💩/ radicalization. Unbelievable.

bigfatbartolocolon.bsky.social•537 days ago

But if nationalize his property, what's to stop the government from confiscating the property of EVERY transphobic emerald mine heir who self-promotes their way to billions of dollars with no discernable skills????

raea.meangirls.online•536 days ago

oh hell ya ed🫡

susanschorn.bsky.social•537 days ago

Ed you are definitely the most put-those-rich-fuckers-up-against-the-wall PR guy on Earth and I love it.

stuckatthisbit.bsky.social•537 days ago

“[A person] who has used [their] incredible wealth and status to twist the world to [their] petty, ignorant, and selfish desires.” I think you described every Australian billionaire right there

brianmwilcox.bsky.social•537 days ago

Don’t forget Tesla, before those robot cars kill us all.

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