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[–] [email protected] 84 points 6 days ago (1 children)

“I served in the military for nearly 22 years and my loyalty is to supporting the U.S. Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. That’s why I reported presidential corruption when I witnessed an effort to steal an election,” he wrote.

“You, Elon, appear to believe you can act with impunity and are attempting to silence your critics. I’m not intimidated,” he added.

What a badass.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Jfc yikes, vindman suffered quite enough already for doing his duty, his testimony during the impeachment trials was clear, well articulated, and not inflamatory. He said he trusted America to have his back for doing the right thing, too bad more than half of all US voters betrayed that trust.

[–] str82L 48 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If I have learnt one thing over the last decade it's that no good deed goes unpunished.

[–] RubberElectrons 8 points 6 days ago

Nah, for some things it's not left vs right, it's right vs wrong.

[–] WhatAmLemmy 46 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'd like to congratulate terrorism, for winning the war on terror.

[–] hedgehogging_the_bed 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm 2001 I was concerned about how long "Never Forget" was going to last and it is definitely dead now.

[–] JustZ 9 points 5 days ago

Russia's attacks on our democracy were worse for America than Vietnam and 9/11 combined.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

The word you want is fascism.

[–] CharlesDarwin 55 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Good grief, who the fuck elected Musk for any role whatsoever? Donvict is not even in office and I'm already quite sick of Elon the overly rich dumbass.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I don't care how he got the job. I just want him fired from it.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago

Yeah, he totally misrepresented Musk in those hearings.

There's nothing 'unwittingly' about it, Musk knows who he's been serving.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

I thought we made presidents out of traitors now 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] 800XL 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Musk needs a good reality check by way of baseball bat to the face.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm partial to a FIM-92 Stinger. Gotta send a message that wasteful private jets are abhorrent, as are their passengers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Off the shelf drones are more cost effective. (Just ask Ukraine)

He flies a lot.

Flights have transponders.

Transponders are tracked and publicly available.

If a bird can knock out an engine on a 747...

[–] 800XL 3 points 5 days ago

That's why he didn't want his plane whereabouts tracked and posted publicly. He is deathly afraid someone will be there waiting when he lands to have a little conversation with him.

[–] 4lan 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Maybe he'll get his own rooftop boy. I would take a day off to celebrate if it worked.

We are overdue for guillotines. In 2024 our guillotines have bullets not blades

[–] 800XL 4 points 5 days ago

We are so overdue. These useless rich wastes of space are getting too uppity and comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Searching online retailers, you can't find tumbrils anywhere. A gap in the market?

[–] distantsounds 22 points 6 days ago

It’s all projection with these assholes

[–] CharlesDarwin 8 points 5 days ago

Seems like Plugs has a conflict of interest here.

[–] cabron_offsets 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] 4lan 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm just waiting for the inevitable assassination attempts. Can't wait

[–] CharlesDarwin 4 points 5 days ago

I'll never forget when I saw someone's kid wearing some fucking shirt with donnie's photo op after that assassination attempt. Their parents chose to 1) buy that shirt in a kid's size, in pink for their girl 2) Put her in it 3) Then took her out in public.

/infinite facepalm

This was a kid that was wayyyy below the age of having any fucking clue about any kind of context...anyway, the fact that someone made an attempt on donvict's life only made idiots like this love him all the more and vote for him even harder - and the same idiots are being even more open about their support for donvict as a result.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

For all we know, there may have already been several.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

"Fuck off and die" This isn't the other place