Elon Chamberlain
I missed this last week. Elon Musk tried to appoint himself “peacemaker” between Ukraine and Russia by telling Ukraine to give Putin what he wants. Ukraine told him to fuck right off. Who does he think he is?
Elon Musk drew backlash on Monday from Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, for his unsolicited advice on how to bring about “peace” amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country.
Who is he to give advice? Who asked him? Who does he think he is?
In a Twitter poll, Musk suggested a path to “Ukraine-Russia Peace” that included re-doing elections “under UN supervision” in the regions of the country recently annexed illegally by Russia. The land grab, covering nearly a fifth of Ukraine, followed referendums that have been widely dismissed as “shams” by much of the world.
The billionaire Tesla CEO also suggested making Crimea, a region Russia invaded and annexed from Ukraine in 2014, “formally part of Russia.” He added in bullet points: “Water supply to Crimea assured” and “Ukraine remains neutral.”
Ok fine how about we all go invade Elon Musk and then make peace by keeping half of what we invaded and telling Elon Musk what he has to assure supplies of to us.
“Fuck off is my very diplomatic reply to you,” Ukraine’s Ambassador to Germany Andrij Melnyk wrote in response to Musk’s Twitter thread.
Can I join the ambassador in that? Fuck off, Elon. You made a car. You’re not a god-emperor.
Russian officials, on the other hand, welcomed Musk’s tweets. Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia and a former Russian president and prime minister, tweeted Musk “kudos” and predicted Musk’s next tweet would say that “Ukraine is an artificial state.”
Well they would, wouldn’t they.
What does think this is, Mars?
Business Insider has an article saying that satellite wifi service Starlink was intentionally disabled within Ukraine because Musk thought the Ukraine military would use it to assist their war effort, and the Russians would retaliate with nuclear weapons.
Keep in mind this is the guy that people are looking to with puppy eyes in hopes that he will save Twitter from the clutches of the leftist censors.
“…and predicted Musk’s next tweet would say that “Ukraine is an artificial state.””
Show me even a single nation that isn’t.
Holms, I wish everyone would understand that. The US is an artificial state, a human made creation that only represents what someone was able to grab from someone else and draw lines around. Russia is an artificial state; it represents what someone was able to grab and draw lines around.
States are sort of like trans – they are an identity more than a reality. And that identity can prove pretty delusional.
No god-emperor in Roman or any other time ever made a car. Show me in the Bible where it says that Moses or Jesus Christ ever made a car.! Neither of them would have had a clue as to where to start. Would not have been able to find where to insert the ignition key.! Nor would have had a clue as to what to put in the tank. Though Jesus Christ could have put water into it, and then turned it into petrol (gasoline.) Just like he did with that water-into-wine trick.
But I reckon Musk could get a job as Putin’s deputy. In no time at all, he could be Emperor of Siberia.! God-Emperor of Siberia even.!
Holms #4, iknklast #5
I once had a friend who was a former Christian fundamentalist. Back when I knew him he had (temporarily*) abandoned religion, but was still very pro-Israeli and unsympathetic to the Palestinian cause. He used to make a major point about how Palestinians were an “artificial”, “constructed” people. I never did get him to provide an example of an “non-artificial”, “unconstructed” people or an explanation of what that could possibly mean…
*Judging by his activity on Facebook he seems to have relapsed big time!
Maybe Musk figures there’s a bigger market for Teslas amongst Russian oligarchs than free Ukrainians.
Maybe he thinks omnicompetence comes along with obscene wealth. So far as I know, it only comes packaged with the megaphone. The smarts are an accessory purchased separately.
I recall he got himself in a twist after his (impractical?) suggestions to save boy scouts stranded in a cave in Thailand using a submarine we rebuffed? I think they just used plain, boring divers who did not sport the Musk logo.
What bothers me about the Starlink article in Business Insider is that all the tweets and comments are Musk merely saying things and making suggestions, silly or misinformed or brash, but only words. Intentionally disabling Starlink is a direct attempt at interfering in the war.
I’ve seen reports that the starling service is back up in Ukraine, but not over Crimea, which of course prevents UKR SOF from using it in that region. Maybe the recent outages were for technical reasons, but it does seem odd that it reportedly failed during Ukraine army pushes in the context of Musk’s public statements. It’s also been reported that Musk spoke directly to Putin and the use by Musk of ‘Khrushchev’s mistake’ seems oddly specific non-western phrasing for a tech-bro who hasn’t demonstrated that he’s particularly well informed about anything outside a narrow field. Hell, if he put even twice the thought into his ‘peace plan’ that he put into buying twitter, he’s still an uninformed ignoramous.
It appears the Starlink issues may be about money, rather than a deliberate attempt to influence the war.