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Elon Musk seen as working counter to U.S. interests in dealings with Russia, China (youtu.be)

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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.

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[-] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 198 points 1 year ago

This is why billionaires shouldn't exist they are treasonous

[+] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml -10 points 1 year ago

You: Want to abolish billionaires because they do not support the war enough.

Me: Want to abolish billionaires because they exploit and oppress the working class.

We are not the same.

[-] dumdum666@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

I want to abolish them because of both - checkmate

[+] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml -10 points 1 year ago

Patsoc detected.

[-] dumdum666@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Please enlighten me what a Patsoc is - I am really curious.

[+] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml -9 points 1 year ago

"Patriotic socialist", someone who claims to be a champion of the working class, but is actually more of nationalist. They only care about the working class of a certain nationality or racial group, and are generally bigoted in their view towards marginalized groups. Real socialists are internationalist. You wanting to get rid of Musk, because he's not sufficiently gung-ho about a war fought between capitalists on the back of workers, implies you consider the national interest more important than the lives of workers. This is anti-worker class collaborator shit, which is what patsocs are really.

[-] dumdum666@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

What the fuck are you even talking about? Russia is throwing thousands of „working class“ lives away, since it wants to expand its territory in aggressive moves since decades. They are forcing Ukraine to defend itself and yes, those are also working class people.

So you, as a good socialist, are probably on the barricades because of this unprovoked attack on the Ukrainian working class. How are you fighting to defend them from getting killed? Please don’t answer something in the likes of „Ukraine should give up“ because then everyone would only see that you are actually advocating the Murder of the Ukrainian people.