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[–] [email protected] 127 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago

There it is

[–] [email protected] 98 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

As recently pointed out, you imagine what Republicans would be doing if George Soros was in Musk's shoes?

We'd already be in civil war. Literally.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I learned a long time ago that republicans not only are hypocrites, but they are 100% aware of this.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago

Blatant hypocrisy, in their eyes, is merely an expression of power. They get to do it and you don't.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Especially they don’t care. It’s frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We'd already be in civil war. Literally.

We already are.

And we are getting our asses handed to us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

As of yet, a Cold Civil War

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

George Soros would be dead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

To be fair I don’t know how the man is still alive. The dude is basically a fossil.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 days ago

Makes sense. He already had USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong escorted out after she refused to quit. She just happened to be leading an investigation into Musk's company Neuralink. I'm sure that was just a coincidence, though.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago

There ya go. Of course Elon Musk, king of the US, was under investigation. That explains a lot.

Unfortunately we will never know the full story.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Coldcell 15 points 5 days ago

Well, it always made sense insofar as we always knew these fucks were about their own self gain. Now we know one of the specific gains they are gutting society to get. I'm sure there'll be more.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

There it is.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

isn't this troglodyte the richest creature in the world? can he not pay anyone to give him a decent haircut?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Ah, so, basically, whatever he was doing was illegal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps I'm confused but it doesn't appear that the headline is supported by the article. This "investigation" was started and publicly announced in May of 2024 and it has nothing to do with Starlink's contracts in Ukraine. Rather it's about how Ukraine was using the StarLink terminals that USAID was giving them and how USAID was monitoring their use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

unless someone has more info, this seems very thin at the moment. speculating, with nothing more than a usaid website blurb, does not seem helpful beyond distraction. follow the trickle and uncover hard evidence, sure... but this? right now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

It's helpful if you have an agenda.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

muppets lmao