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Good!!! I just finished porting my number off of T-Mobile since I canceled my service with them mid-Superbowl when I learned they were collaborating with StarLink; I don't want to support a man advocating for my erasure because he's mad at his daughter for disowning him. I made it explicitly clear why I was cancelling, citing Elon and StarLink by name.

Glad to see others participating in the "free" market and "voting with our wallets" before that ends up being the only way we can vote. Even more glad Slim is costing him billions compared to my pennies.

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It would be amazing if Elon became recognized as the toxic figure that he is, and that had real economic impact on his companies.

I do wonder though, when I see so many famous people on Joe Rogan, for example, if the world isn't pass that somehow. Remember Neil Young as the absolutely solitary voice trying to pressure Spotify? It doesn't matter if you think Rogan should be boycotted; there are people that clearly should be doing it, to be honest with their own values, but aren't.

Edit: small correction.

Since Trump started his term, Rogan has fallen from the top podcast in the charts to number two with a 32% drop in downloads over the past month. I guess its something?

Well, there's a lot in the news today about the FAA cancelling a 2.4 billion dollar contract with Verizon and awarding it to Starlink.

So look like Musk may have gotten a good deal with the couple hundred million he spent to help get Trump elected.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgd9v3r69qo

> Shares in electric car maker Tesla have slumped more than 9% after EU and UK sales fell by almost half in January.

> In 1938, Ford was awarded Nazi Germany's Grand Cross of the German Eagle, a medal given to foreigners sympathetic to Nazism

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Honors_and_recognit...

By US standards, Musk is pretty good. And I doubt there'll be any economic consequences for him no matter what ideologies he holds. The literal next line on Wikipedia is "The United States Postal Service honored Ford with a Prominent Americans series (1965–1978) 12¢ postage stamp".

Actually before WW2 many Americans were somewhat sympathetic to the Nazis; Hitler didn't seem so bad until he started invading other countries and stepped up his persecution of the Jews and Roma in 1938. Other recipients of that award were Charles Lindburgh and the chairman of IBM.

I'm not going to research historical Nazi's to try and what, understand???, why current day nazi's aren't so bad. Fuck all Nazi's.

That _may_ be happening, with fairly dramatic Tesla sales declines in Europe, though that also might just be competition.

Curious about what this is about. I don't pay very close attention to the news cycle.

I assume they are referring to this partnership:

https://www.t-mobile.com/news/network/t-mobile-starlink-beta...

"T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) introduced the next big thing in wireless — T-Mobile Starlink — to tens of millions of football fans. Now in public beta, this breakthrough service, developed in partnership with Starlink [...]"

I got that part. It was the "wants to eliminate my people" part I'm missing. Is Musk talking genocide?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_erasure

Ah, yeah, he's making the 'this is mental illness' argument that has been a mainstay in psychology for the last century or so.

Mainstream acceptance was slow up until the last 10 years or so.

I doubt he'll succeed in his efforts. I don't think he cares as much as the people he's targeting care.

> a man advocating for my erasure

What do you mean?

Maybe OP is trans

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