I’d like to see more substantial consequences for consciously and deliberately sabotaging a war operation using a service the pentagon paid him to provide.

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If any of us did that we’d be behind bars

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago

Buddy we wouldn't even make it to trial.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But he was slammed in a headline! There’s no way any other consequence could even be achievable.

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't worry, I'm sure our leaders are formulating a strongly worded condemnation of their own. One might even venture to suggest they could hold a hearing about it, or assign a task force to investigate! Canceling his government contracts or charging him with anything are obviously off the table, though.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course that’s off the table, there’s simply no way any kind of law enforcement in our country would ever consider such violent response to actions made by a citizen.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

By a wealthy citizen, you mean.

[–] s20@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, he's not a representative of any state, so technically assassination wouldn't be an act of war...

I'm not advocating, just pointing out that as an individual, his position is a bit more precarious than I think he realizes.

[–] LeadSoldier@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And as much as I liked President Obama, he did set the precedent by targeting and killing a (bad) US citizen.

[–] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who?

[–] LeadSoldier@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anwar al-Awlaki. Most things that I'm seeing about him are that he is the first US citizen targeted by a drone strike but I remember it being a big deal that he was the first US citizen assassinated at all.

[–] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

First that we know off.

Although I oppose drone strikes and Obama was the king of them, this fella was in Yeman at the time which is a bit different than wigging off your citizens on home soil.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Um... Obama isn't the king of drone strikes, the Trump administration surpassed the total number Obama era drone strikes in under two years IIRC.

[–] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems you’re correct. I stand corrected.

Not that it matters but I am not American and have no dog in this race. I liked Obama and thought trump was… different.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

That’s the most benign description of trump that I’ve read in a while.

[–] money_loo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You might be thinking of how Obama was the “king of making them safer” because before him they just let it blow up Kids and crap willy-nilly, and he was tired of seeing that stuff so he made them create a less explosive more knife like drone for less casualties.

The flying ginsu.

[–] FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

He didn't sabotage it though, as another user pointed out (with sources) he had already turned off starlink awhile ago and didn't want to turn it back on for just this strike.

https://lemmy.world/comment/3259657

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The richest man in the world facing consequences for his actions? Not in this timeline.