Elon Musk's financial interests put him in a position of having his own personal foreign policy, but new reporting shows that whether it's manufacturing in C...

Elon Musk’s financial interests put him in a position of having his own personal foreign policy, but new reporting shows that whether it’s manufacturing in China or the Starlink network being used in Ukraine, Musk’s decisions can run counter to stated US policy.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
      222·
      1 year ago

      Meanwhile, until he was supporting USA and Ukraine, he was the good white hero for your ilk.

      Yeah, because of that. This isn’t the gotcha you think it is, you aren’t uncovering a double standard. People deem helping Ukraine righteous, and helping Russia treasonous, this is no secret.

            • drewdarko@kbin.social
              74·
              1 year ago

              Russia invaded Ukraine. You know… like the Nazis did in WW2.

              Russia is playing the part of the Nazis.

                • Honytawk
                  31·
                  1 year ago

                  Wait, and how exactly are any Ukrainians on Russian territory in order to paint blood swastikas on their women after killing them? They are defending their country, meaning they stay mainly in their country. Most haven’t had set foot in Russia since the start of the war. So what are the Russian women doing in Ukraine?

                  You know, this sounds a lot like Russian propaganda trying to make Ukrainians seem like fascists while they are not the ones invading sovereign nations.

                  Their leader is a Jew, you know that right?

                  So even if what you say were true, do you think it would have happened if Russia didn’t illegally invade a sovereign nation?

                  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                    42·
                    1 year ago

                    Tankie’s gonna tankie. This guy thinks he’s uncovered some ultimate hypocrisy which justifies Russia’s invasion. Like, America has neo-Nazi’s, therefore, it’s totally chill for Russia to use boxcutters to emasculate POWs (war crime), or execute civilians (war crime), or rape (war crime) civilians, or deport Ukrainian children to Russia (war crime).

            • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
              53·
              1 year ago

              Here in the rest of the world we fear the brewing nazi diseases, and how Russia is already a country that is fully infected, whatever they bullshit on paper about nazis.

        • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
          72·
          1 year ago

          No I didn’t, I didn’t ignore anyone. I am answering your statement. We are talking in the context of whom was considering him a “good white hero”. As per your statement:

          he was the good white hero for your ilk.

          I’m not going to specify the whole context of the conversation when it’s clear whom I’m talking about. You established the group of people that worshipped him in your original comment, I explained why.

            • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              You seem to not understand how context in a conversation works. Look, The original comment said the following in a post about how Elon is acting agaisnt US interest:

              This is why billionaires shouldn’t exist they are treasonous

              So they are probably american. Then you answered them with:

              he was the good white hero for your ilk.

              Then I said the following, to you, after your comment:

              People deem helping Ukraine righteous, and helping Russia treasonous, this is no secret.

              In this context, “People” can mean everybody, yes, but can also mean the subset of people we are talking about already, which I obviously was mentioning. I don’t really get why you are being so confrontational because I didn’t include the opinion of everybody in the world when trying to explain why americans or the west now think that Elon is a traitor.

              Let me give you an example in good faith. When there’s a meeting between neighbours, they vote on X, and the president of the community states “The people have talked”, are they also ignoring the other 8 billion people that exist in the world? No, because it’s obvious that “pople” in that context refers to the subset of people only referring to the neighbours.

              I really can’t explain to you more how context works, if you are that hellbent in chastisizing me for explaining to you why “those people” think like that in general, we have nothing more to talk about.

    • Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml
      161·
      1 year ago

      My ilk?

      You’re jumping to conclusions.

      Billionaires are treasonous because they live outside the laws of their country, hold power over the government there and gain their money through exploitation