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Dan Gillmor | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 As Josh Marshall writes at Talking Points Memo (neither he nor his essential site participate here, unfortunately), "You simply can’t have critical national security infrastructure in the hands of a Twitter troll who’s a soft touch for whichever foreign autocrat blows some smoke up his behind. But that’s what we have here."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/newsletter/vol-2-no-69-musk-shut-down-ukraines-attack-on-the-russian-navy/sharetoken/2UYXcsVYMuoP?utm_source=brevo&utm_campaign=Backchannel%20Vol%202%20No%2069&utm_medium=email
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19f681e0 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c 

Well you also can't have a president with a presidential team of advisors who are a band of gangsters and dozens of representatives and senators who are a threat to national security.

But that's what you have had there, and to some degree you still have.
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6bcf5f31 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c 

Remember that Musk has millions of dollars in loans from the China.

How has there never been a Congressional hearing about this?
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51e12f25 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c You can’t have a president like that either. But nevertheless there were four years of one.
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0853e7d2 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c At what point should a government seize control of private resources? Like a #usstatedepartment take over of #Starlink in wartime. Or the #Texasgrid turn off the power to #Texas #bitcoin miners during a #heatwave (or permanently as polluters). What's the opposite of #privatize again?