How tf could he get those dishes into Gaza given the blockade?

  • KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]
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    11 months ago

    [ComStar]

    This man is deranged

    For those that don't know, ComStar is the name of the central communications company in the tabletop game Battletech. They control all the communication in the entire galaxy, are styled as and act like a religious institution, and have their own private army empowered to show up and coup anyone who doesn't pay up or attempts to create a separate communications network

    Whoever told Musk about this fucking lore needs to be sent to the pit

    • Beaver [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      ComStar is literally the satire faction about tech nerds and how their own self-worship has religious undertones. The BT writers were specifically making fun of people like Elon.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    11 months ago

    AOC: I don't know how those acts can be defended.

    Also AOC: defends those acts

  • red_stapler [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    If Elon starts Battletech posting, I will literally become the joker. matt-jokerfied

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    Elon has such a great track record...

    Oops: Elon Musk Donated the Wrong Kind of Ventilator

    2020/04/02

    He promised life-saving ventilators. He delivered sleep apnea machines.

    Over the last few days, Tesla CEO and bona fide public health disaster Elon Musk has scored a lot of praise and flattering press coverage for his promise to deliver medical ventilators to hospitals facing an overwhelming number of coronavirus cases...

    • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 months ago

      News of the future:

      Oops: Elon Musk Donated The Wrong Kind of Connectivity

      2023/08/31

      He promised life-saving Internet. He delivered logical connectives.

      Over the last few days, Tesla CEO and bona fide humanitarian disaster Elon Musk has scored a lot of praise and flattering press coverage for his promise to deliver connectivity to humanitarian aid organizations in Gaza amidst a growing humanitarian crisis.

      Well, he delivered, sort of. … Reached for comment, Elon tweeted: “Not or and if!”

  • footfaults [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    No, please god no, don't touch Battletech. Don't be associated with it. Do not ruin my ONE THING. Fuck you Elon

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 months ago

      MFW Harebrained Schemes got entagled into Battletech copyrights clusterfuck, couldn't deliver Battletech 2 game on PC and instead release the gigaturd that is Lamplighters League, while fucking Elon just casually comes and do this. 😡 🤮 😟

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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          11 months ago

          That's the main pain of computer battletech. It's a strategy and we had one single strategy version in last 25 years and it was actually good, but the potential is now wasted. Sure the mods like Roguetech are great but RT is bloated mess at this point and its mechanics are purposefully unfriendly to the player and obscure to the point of arcane. Also its installer sucks, require full reinstal every time they drop a minor update, and mod devs are rude bastards impossible to interact with.

  • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    I think he should personally deliver them to Gaza, "let that sink in" style. Imagine the struggle session over whether we should critically support the IDF for accidentally blowing up billionaires

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    wow how could AOC be so "bigoted and callous" as to suggest Israel did something wrong?

    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/10/aoc-pro-palestine-nyc-rally-00120684

    • Kaplya
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      11 months ago

      This actually shows that she is a very astute politician.

      First few days when Israel was caught offguard and Hamas’s attack seemed actually threatening to the settlers, the socdem instinct to protect imperialism was triggered, condemning pro-Palestinian sentiment as anti-semitism.

      Few days later when Israel has finally gotten its shit together and Hamas’s initial momentum had faded, and the fate of the Gaza Palestinians is one that awaits to be slaughtered, the socdem is once again safe to call Israel out for their inhumane treatment against the Palestinians.

      Pay attention to how their rhetoric changes: when the oppressed rises up and imperialists are under threat, they will denigrate you for supporting “terrorism”, and when the imperialists are finally putting down the oppressed, they will tell you how this is wrong and how they have always condemned such inhumane practices.

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    The US has, ofc, historically not denounced this, but has done similar things to Somalia and Iraq.

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    the united states has historically denounced this practice

    which is a purely symbolic statement that does not line up with their actual behavior!!!! lenin-rage

  • space_comrade [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    How tf could he get those dishes into Gaza given the blockade?

    Aid orgs are probably gonna get at least some access to Gaza, he could just give it to them. It could all just be bluster and he won't do shit but of all the shitty things this dude has said and done this is the least shitty thing so not sure why I'd be immediately hostile towards the idea.

    • daisy
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      11 months ago

      Aid orgs are probably gonna get at least some access to Gaza

      Call me a cynic but I'm increasingly uncertain of that.

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      You need a pricy dish first with a clear view of the sky.

      The fact Elon can selectively, geo-percise shut off or block comms, he could most likeky track percisely where all the starlink devices are, giving the US and Isn't Real percise location tracking of journalists and aid workers aka "targets" like a Trojan horse.