The use of Starlink infrastructure and the X platform by the U.S. and Israeli military, as well as Musk’s alleged cooperation with the U.S. government, is enough justification to add his assets to a military target bank, the state-run Fars News Agency reported Thursday.

An unnamed source cited by Fars claimed the U.S. military used Musk-linked companies to carry out war crimes, including attacks on water infrastructure in southern Iran this week.

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      The amount of secular people in Iran is pretty high. If you look up a video of people walking through Iran they really do not take the rules that strictly.

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    Just in time for the SpaceX IPO. Let’s see if they can scare away some money.

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    Musk has been pretty proactive in politicizing the millitaries he gives access to starlink. Seems like a pretty rational target.

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      They can’t do it. Iran can’t do shit. It’s a poor, isolated country that’s ruled by an evil tyrannical regime filled to the brim with brain deeds theocrats. Trump’s stupidity and Netanyahu’s greed are the only things that are keeping them in power at this point. They have no legitimacy with the people at all.

      Usually with regimes like this, they’re all bark and no bite. If they had the ability to carry out such powerful blows then they would’ve done them, but they won’t because they can’t. They’re trying to play psychological warfare while praying that they can manipulate Trump’s dumbass into giving them a favorable deal before the international community turns on them for closing the strait.

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    What absolutely boggles the mind is why would someone want to be the face of this current era? If I had 100th of the fortune muskrat has I would fuck off to my own island never to be heard from again

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      It just means you’re a normal human being. These billionaires have all the comfort and security in the world, and they still can’t live a fulfilling life. They must have more power, own more stuff, tell everyone else what they think, and impose their will.

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        If they don’t try to deregulate the next dsm handbook billionaire disease should be listed. It’s a mental disease

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          Like you see it in survival shows where someone will have plenty of food and supplies but they hord it the point of start g themselves I think it’s the same thing with These guys

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        Evident by the dork himself hiring someone so that he could pose as “the best Path of Exile 2 player” only to be ridiculed during his stream. Its just never enough. Can’t just be the richest man, they have to be the most everything. Even then it isn’t enough I’m sure.

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    I guess evil dictatorships can still do accidental good things.

    Godspeed, Iran.

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      One person constantly on the go is a far harder target than corporations with fixed structures, and it’s not like the machine would suddenly crumple just because he were to drop… Let them do what they’re doing.