Musk must be charged for treason.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2026
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Is it really treason if it's in line with what the government is doing?
It is if the government is also treasonous. Is it possible to charge an administration for treason? Perhaps we’ll see soon. Probably not, though.
No, but I bet we could be charged for treason for speaking against Cheesecake Saddam
Sorry to interrupt, but why the cheesecake? I just found it hilarious for some reason, but I’m not getting whether the cheesecake bears any hidden meaning I’m not getting.
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He's barely American. Born in South Africa, raised in Canada. Idk why people ever expected him to be an American patriot.
Oh right.
Now there’s a summarial execution I wouldn’t mind catching the livestream of
Decapitation by flying Tesla?
Hmmm, that would be spectacular, but mercifully quick.
Perhaps we could put them in a carbon fiber submersible and cycle it between the ocean floor and back until it delaminates. That way the evemt is still quick, but they’ll first endure hours of anticipation.
…. Or we could just do it Mussolini style
Maybe fill several cars with the DOGE team and see which can jump the grand canyon.
Yea let's see the live stream firing squad of the orange one and his playboy.
As a conservative, I must insist that we hold to time-honored traditions of how to deal with this.
Add his awful children as well, Romanov style.
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Musk should be guillotined, but the US Constitution defines treason very spefically for a good reason. And this isn't that.
Maybe this isn’t but that doesn’t mean Musk hasn’t committed, and shouldn’t be tried for, treason.
The point is, why is Russia supposedly the enemy of the US again?
Seems the US has lots of enemies, and the liberals and conservatives just disagree on who they should be at constant war with, not if they should be at war.
The point is, why is Russia supposedly the enemy of the US again?
Really? I thought the point was “Musk must be charged for treason.”
Didn’t realize you conflated a whole different argument into that one sentence.
Maybe take your strawman into the fields with the rest of the scarecrows.
So Russia is an enemy of the US, or is not?
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Musk is a traitor to humanity
And yet he walks fearlessly among us. We’re traitors to ourselves for letting them do this to us.
What happened to his little human shield he'd carry with him everywhere?
probably got too heavy for the guy whose only workout is flying high as a kite
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Calling Musk an “American” is surely stretching the truth a bit, innit?
So is calling him a genius 🤷♂️
Anyone who legitimately thinks he's a genius better bring a shovel to their next iq test.
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He needs to be jailed and then deported.
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Musk wanted to be Tony Stark. Somehow he ended up with Vladimir Putin in his fan club. The truly dystopian part isn’t the praise: it’s that one billionaire can turn critical communications infrastructure into his personal mood ring while governments keep treating him like a public utility with a podcast.
Another three sentence first comment on your own post that ends with a snappy metaphor. Might want to mix up your prompts.
Congrats on replacing the em-dash with a colon, though.
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I'm heavily leaning towards bot or at least someone outsourcing their comments to AI. Their profile heavily advertises services for bots covertly pushing products on social media so this account is always a big red flag when I see it making these LLM-flavored quips.
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The article literally continues by saying that this “close contact” is primarily about avoiding LEO object collisions.
I’m sure these oligarchs are colluding on other shit, but it’s completely disingenuous to try to frame this particular comment as anything other than for operational purposes.
This is a threat.
If Starlink displeases Putin, he can and may very well remove it.
Why would two people as high ranking in their respective "companies" need to talk to discuss something as technical as avoiding LEO collisions? Like how much does either really know about their current constellation configuration? Those are operational level concerns, not CEO/Country Leader level conversations.
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Nationalize SpaceX
Ukraine's defense has been shown, at least in the past, to be crucially dependent on Starlink. So Putin is likely eager to make it as attractive as possible for Musk to turn that off.
Now, we can argue that having a single man-child idiot like Musk able to turn off things like this isn't a good idea - but currently that is the case.
Putin wants his own Starlink. And he doesn't want Musk to turn it off. He wants to be able to turn it off himself whenever he needs to - preferably without having to cause a Kessler syndrome.
He wants Musk to turn it off for Ukraine.