Gsus4

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 points 19 hours ago

"They didn't know"^TM^

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 19 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

This guy does (he was there too, sitting next to vance, btw)

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

What makes you think NATO is something he wants? If anything, he could be plotting a 30x bigger surprise than the invasion of Ukraine if the americans betray Europe on the battlefield by removing all the NATO command structures by surprise in the event of new russian escalation.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 25 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

If only it were just that simple. Now, whenever there is an election here, we gotta deal with russian, Chinese and US state interference...

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 21 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Well, that's the problem with NATO, it was always US interests first and European interests second. Whenever those two diverged, the Europeans just had to sit on their hands (that was the deal, that is why defense spending was not a priority)...but this time it is different: it has proven existential for Europe, regardless of whatever direction the wind may be blowing at that one time in the oval office.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 96 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (5 children)

Yea, looks like they used their leverage over Zelensky to lure him into a trap that turned out to be a verbal-WWE media stunt...

...turns out Zelensky is more articulate and mature than both of them combined...

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 58 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Yea, that is what trump is: weaponized reality tv for rubes. No competence, just circus and mayhem.

It exploits fatal vulnerabilities in education, democracy and 24h-~~journalism~~news cycle.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 12 points 22 hours ago

...this was a less respectable exchange than what you watch in most vapid reality shows...what a display with so much at stake...

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Emergency, hull failure imminent, abandon ship"?

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is this something within his power to do, isn't that up to the courts?

 
 

The leopards eating faces starts around min 20.

 

autotranslated:

Faced with the lack of a legal representative of the social network X in Brazil, the minister of the Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes blocked accounts of the company Starlink Holding, which also belongs to billionaire Elon Musk – which provoked a new reaction from the businessman (read more below)

Last week, Moraes considered the existence of a “de facto economic group” under Musk and, on August 18, ordered the blocking of all the financial values of this group in Brazil, to guarantee the payment of fines imposed by the Brazilian Justice against Rede X.

According to aides to the office of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, the other company under Elon Musk in the country – in addition to the X – is precisely Starlink, which operates in Brazil in the sale of internet services by satellite, especially in the North region.

What Starlink is and how does it work

Elon Musk compares Alexandre de Moraes to movie villains

All Starlink leaders in Brazil have already been notified and subpoenaed to also answer for the amounts due to the Brazilian Justice by X.

After the blockade of the accounts, the billionaire returned to criticize Alexandre de Moraes - whom, on Wednesday (28), compared to villains of films (see video above).

In a publication in X on Thursday (29), Musk called the minister "dictator" and said that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) is conniving with him.

“The tyrant Alexandre [de Moraes] is the dictator of Brazil. Lula is his dog,” Musk wrote in a free translation.

The businessman Elon Musk decided, according to announced on the 17th, to close the X office in Brazil.

The reason is the fact that the company does not agree with the fines imposed by the Supreme Court or with the determination of withdrawal of content published by users on the social network that confront the Democratic State of Law and Brazilian legislation.

Since then, Minister Alexandre de Moraes has gone on to request the businessman to establish a legal representative to officially answer for the acts of the platform. O processo de Elon Musk contra megaempresas por suposto 'boicote' ao X — Foto: Getty Images

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against mega-companies for alleged ‘boicote’ to X — Photo: Getty Images

The subpoena in post

On Wednesday (28), Moraes gave 24 hours so that the social network again has a legal representative in the country, under penalty of suspension of service.

The decision was released overnight, in a post on the STF’s profile on X, in response to the company’s post made on August 17 about the closure of the office. On that occasion, in addition to announcing the closure of the office and the withdrawal of its representative from the country, the platform informed that the network would continue to be used in the country.

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