• @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    retaliatory action taken by a state whose citizens have been mistreated by a foreign power by treating the subjects of that power similarly; reprisal.

    I’m waiting for an explanation too, unless I’m missing the part where SpaceX and Tesla are considered “foreign governments”.

    • Alien Nathan Edward
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      111 year ago

      You yourself conflate foreign powers and foreign governments in this very comment. Musk is obviously not a government, but he’s definitely foreign and it’s hard to find a definition of the word “power” that “able to shut down comms for military in a way that completely scuttles a mission that’s in progress” doesn’t fit.

        • flipht
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          51 year ago

          Yeah, well, when did we start using that term? Was it before billionaires? Because if you act like billionaires are normal individuals and ignore the fact that they can function as if they can force governance on others, then you’re just begging for the corpo-state instead of an elected government.

          • @[email protected]
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            -21 year ago

            Alternatively, if your governments plans hinge on one man making a decision: maybe you change your fucking plans.