Musk really had it all:
He could have been one of the coolest guys on the planet if he had just stayed a goofy tech and space billionaire.
Instead, he chose to back fascism and become a threat to democracy
@TrumpsHurricane Grass being greener syndrome. Lots of videos of people doing that and freaking out afterwards. So much they take for granted here isn’t always commonly available elsewhere, especially if you aren’t a citizen
@SoveyX Love Korea. Feel bad for the North Korean population because they have no idea what they are missing out on compared to their South Korean friends and family
@AskMichaelTaiwo Man the amount of people trying to claim this is fake (as well as the original) if hilarious. The rocks brought back from the moon were carbon dated to being about 4.4 billion years one, no earth rock other than meteors are older than 4 billion years old, plus the lunar rover
I just went through Elon Musk's page.
No word on the Artemis II crew's Moon landing or their beautiful Earth shots.
If this was done by SpaceX, he would have been talking about it nonstop.
The guy is petty.
Come on, celebrate a good thing even if it not done by your company.
@shira_mari_camp Congratulations, now you need about 20 million more so get to work sir! Congratulations to your wife as well since she did the hard part
@itsrosesm Depends on if she is caught actually involved with the rampant corruption and offloading of fraudulent scam money overseas. Innocent until proven guilty. If she is then no I have no problem with him being rude as he does that regularly
Japan is that country where elementary school children walk to school alone without any fear of anything bad happening to them.
A thousand light-years ahead of the rest of the world…
JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.
Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.
George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.
The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.
No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide.
A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.
The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.
The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.
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@GigaBasedDad Educate me if I am misinformed please but I thought South Korea just elected a prime minister that’s very much an ally to Chinese Communist leaders? Maybe that’s why?
@StarTrekSFA Why would cadets in an academy be sent out on starships to handle a crisis? Explain that one. Do we have any example of that other than the American Civil war where the Virginia Military Institute sent out young cadets to try and repulse union soldiers when the war was done
The people complaining that Starfleet Academy isn't like other Trek are outright weird
It was always going to be more Wesley Crusher than fully formed officers, by its premise
OBVIOUSLY less grounded in exploration and more focused on younger characters growing into Starfleet