Exocet6951
Exocet6951 t1_ja983bt wrote
Reply to comment by Senator_45 in Macron flies to Africa to counter waning French influence by HRJafael
I take it that also includes financial aid and migration treaties which lets countries have relaxed rules for studying abroad?
Seems like people always forget about those, and are offended on behalf of those countries.
Exocet6951 t1_j2057e8 wrote
Reply to comment by cryptothrow2 in SpaceX activates nearly 100 Starlinks in Iran amid country-wide protests: report by chromatic45
Sorry to surprise you, but if you bump up your prices by two folds, then force your highest rates to siphon government aid as much as possible, you're war profiteering.
When you threaten to cut service in the middle of a war zone, to get even more of that aid, then you're extorting.
Shill all you want, it won't change the fact that Musk bumped up terminal prices to profit from the war, then extorted Ukraine to get even more money, all while trying to spin his actions as philanthropy.
He is scum, through and through.
Exocet6951 t1_j1yhrtg wrote
Reply to comment by Levelman123 in SpaceX activates nearly 100 Starlinks in Iran amid country-wide protests: report by chromatic45
Ah yes, the famously philanthropic actionof having a government pay for your terminals (with their prices massively jacked up) with the most expensive plan possible, then complaining about the expenses and threatening to cut off access to users in a warzone just to siphon off more aid for your terminals, which have an artificially bloated price and plan.
Philanthropy is when war profiteering meets extorsion, according to Musk fans.
Exocet6951 t1_ja98glm wrote
Reply to comment by Deicide1031 in Macron flies to Africa to counter waning French influence by HRJafael
>Can France help with that? Certainly doesn’t look like they’ve done much but line their own pockets up to now. (No offense)
Yeah I'm sure exporting almost nothing to Mali, and sending 40 million in aid in 2020 alone is massively lining one's pockets....