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Pluvious

(4,311 posts)
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 10:04 PM Oct 2022

SNAP tweet of the night (Ukrainians vs Elon Musk)




Ukrainians – whose average annual income is about $6000 per year – crowd-funded $9.6 million in only a day to buy RAM II kamikaze drones.

Elon Musk – whose net worth is around $215 billion – wants U.S. taxpayers to pick up the tab for Starlink in Ukraine.
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SNAP tweet of the night (Ukrainians vs Elon Musk) (Original Post) Pluvious Oct 2022 OP
This is the other meme picking up steam... Pluvious Oct 2022 #1
Curious how Musk's people are in full support of forcing social media to peddle Baitball Blogger Oct 2022 #2
Musk is a traitor to the USA 🇺🇸 questionseverything Oct 2022 #3
Yes he is. SergeStorms Oct 2022 #9
SWEET!.. Cha Oct 2022 #4
That's what he gets for giving it in the first place. David__77 Oct 2022 #5
Don't make excuses for that loser. It is the least Maraya1969 Oct 2022 #11
I think I was one of the first people I know to hate that BigmanPigman Oct 2022 #6
While Elon Musk could seriously afford and not notice the cost, Gore1FL Oct 2022 #7
It's not helping dispel the notion that billionaires are all sociopaths. rubbersole Oct 2022 #8
I don't deny that. Gore1FL Oct 2022 #10

Baitball Blogger

(46,725 posts)
2. Curious how Musk's people are in full support of forcing social media to peddle
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 10:30 PM
Oct 2022

their alternate fake and divisive policy, but Musk doesn't see how the government can compel him to provide satellite for Ukraine, when it's in the interest of this country.

questionseverything

(9,656 posts)
3. Musk is a traitor to the USA 🇺🇸
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 10:38 PM
Oct 2022

He is openly supporting Putin, a murderous rapist

I was never wild on him but this supporting Russia is over the line

SergeStorms

(19,201 posts)
9. Yes he is.
Sat Oct 15, 2022, 12:10 AM
Oct 2022

The only country where he would have gotten the breaks to become the richest man on the planet, and he dumps all over it.

Why dont you take your malfunctioning EV and manufacture it in Russia, Musk. American auto makers are doing a fine job manufacturing EVs now. See how many Russians buy your crap, asshole. 🖕

















David__77

(23,418 posts)
5. That's what he gets for giving it in the first place.
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 11:17 PM
Oct 2022

Had he not done so he would not be subject to this criticism.

BigmanPigman

(51,608 posts)
6. I think I was one of the first people I know to hate that
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 11:40 PM
Oct 2022

hypocritical, libertarian, traitor!!! When I read an extensive article in Rolling Stone in 2016 it showed Musk at his true asinine self. He not only fucks over women but he took advantage of every opportunity available to him, for free by the way, but once he got to the top he pulled up the ladder. He is a ladder-puller and that garnishes zero respect from me.

Gore1FL

(21,132 posts)
7. While Elon Musk could seriously afford and not notice the cost,
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 11:48 PM
Oct 2022

I don't necessarily expect him to fund the causes I believe in.

If the U.S. taxpayer needs to subsidize this very real service, please raise my, and everyone else's, taxes 1%. I'll do my part. Thanks for what you have done so far, Elon.

That said, I have a lot of criticism for Elon Musk across a wide range of subjects. What he has provided Ukraine thus far is applause worthy. I don't see asking for funding for a costly service to be out-of-bounds after providing so many free months.

If I were in his place, I might act differently.

Ultimately, I think this topic lends itself more to concentration-of-wealth discussions rather than Ukraine defense arguments.

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