Skiluros

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[–] Skiluros 7 points 2 months ago

They do have a large air base in Murmansk oblast, but this doesn't seem to be it. Wondering what got hit.

[–] Skiluros 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I initially read Elmo as Elon Musk, I was confused why you hate Musk specifically as someone who's kid used to be a toddler.

[–] Skiluros 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if this fellow thought he would end up like this when he was partaking in the plans for the full scale invasion in late 21/22.

Hopefully, we will be able to take out many more of the senior russian scum.

[–] Skiluros 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Twitter seems to be in (early phases) of a terminal decline. Advertisers (in the US?) might try to suck up to Musk for political reasons but at the end of the day they want a return on marketing spend.

Getting government services and public institutions off Twitter is a good initiative. Albeit in many countries, Twitter never really had the same impact as in the US. Where I live, Telegram is the source for notifications, updates and news.

Some of Musk's products already have a stigma attached to them. Considering Musk's degeneracy seems to be accelerating, I will speculate this will only get worse.

The people who are not comfortable with Musk and his plutocracy have left or will eventually leave his companies. The rest don't care and arguably their attitude is part of the problem as well.

It will likely take a rather significant change in social attitudes (in the US, but not only) towards oligarchs and corruption to make Musk and other oligarchs take responsibility for their actions and to send them to jail.

The above-mentioned point will take time and if anything it looks like it's only going to get worse (global rise of right wing movements supporting corruption and oligarchs). The silver lining is that eventually such systems start to implode due to their internal contradictions. Our current institutions (political, regulatory, economic, social) are simply not suited to the complexity and global nature of modern business, the externalities inherent to the information age and the challenges of our time. “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.” I don't intend to defeatist, on the contrary, I am pointing out that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. It just might take a lot of time (and suffering) to get there.

[–] Skiluros 8 points 2 months ago (12 children)

I try to. I will admit, it can be difficult.

Anything specific you are referring to?

[–] Skiluros 31 points 2 months ago (11 children)

It's honestly too bad he is not in his 40s. At the risk of being overly presumptuous, I will speculate that he would be a good leader for the US and the "free world".

[–] Skiluros 203 points 2 months ago (33 children)

As someone not from the US (but who has lived/worked/studied in the US), Sanders seems like the only member of the US upper house that is willing to speak honestly and engage in haram speech that goes against local provincial orthodoxy.

I was particularly intrigued by an article that claimed that Sanders was the only "outsider" in the US upper house and that all other senators were more or less on friendly terms (with the implication being that their polemics are a ruse). Unfortunately I can't find the article.

[–] Skiluros 15 points 2 months ago

As a Ukrainian, this meme hits very hard.

[–] Skiluros 7 points 2 months ago

Elmo "Pedoguy" Musk.

[–] Skiluros 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a bridge too far for them, especially with particularly oligarch friendly policies of the incoming US administration.

[–] Skiluros 13 points 2 months ago

Too little, too late as usual.

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