People Power

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi 

 Ya know the theory about the orcas who are taking out the rich people boats? That they’re just playing—they see the yachts as toys? Well, on that note, let’s all be the orcas we wish to see in the world.

At a Musk/TeslaTakedown protest in Berkeley (where the majority of the protesters were white and over 60 years of age) a 33 year old, taser wielding, pro-MusKKKer got into the crowd and attempted to fuck shit up. It wasn’t his first stab at trolling the regular Fourth Street demonstrations either.

Assbrain, Ricardo Ruiz, pulled a stun gun on one of the protesters who had verbally confronted him. He flashed it in her face and grabbed her. She then pulled him off his bike and slammed him up against a car. Another protester helped restrain Ruiz until he was rescued by a cop.

Check out the vid. Susan’s my new hero.
 
How else we can put pressure on Ketamine Clyde? Tesla was his largest revenue generator. With continued protest pressure his stake will no longer be his most valuable asset.

SpaceX is next up. Starlink is part of SpaceX. What’s that? A satellite internet service provider.

My understanding is that satellite internet is not the preferred way to go. It's generally more expensive and slower than traditional wired connections and has more potential weather related disruptions. It’s good for rural areas where getting a decent connection requires sacrifices to ancient gods, remembering all the words to your 6th grade history class report and figuring out which potion makes you shrink and which one makes you grow.

 Why do governments, like Ukraine, use satellite communication? It provides the ability to reach remote areas anywhere. You can maintain a connection that’s not affected by disasters or emergencies. It works a treat in battlefield situations.

Starlink, is used extensively by Kyiv's troops. It would be…ahhh…dreadfully inconvenient for them to need to find a new provider in the midst of this fight for their lives and freedom.

After February 28th’s disastrous meeting with Mango Mussolini and the cranky couchfucker, Musk waffled over continuing to provide services to Ukraine. It took protest and public shaming to get him to do the right thing.

Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year. The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
~ Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski

Leon is not giving away SATCOM for free. Poland’s paying for it. ALSO, the rat bastard is no fucking hero for, just barely, doing the right thing. He’s only slightly less disgustingly evil. You don't get cookies for being a tiny bit less of an obscene greedhead.

Christ, Space Karen is such a vile, regrettable thing. Mommy Maye really should have just swallowed.

Starlink is NOT a monopoly.

We can do to Starlink what we’re doing to Tesla. As individual consumers, we can choose other service providers. If your government uses it, lobby, petition, blackmail and beg your leaders to use someone else. There ARE other options out there.

Competitors include: ViaSat, NBN Sky Muster, TeleSat, SES S. A., OneWeb, Telstra, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, EchoStar Mobile, Hughes Network System, and Inmarsat.

Do it—starve Starlink.