Yeah I find myself in the same boat. I don't know if it's a thing with just Bay area tech folks or what.

Yes it is an Earthbound reference!

Try leaving your bubble sometime, and live somewhere where people generally have good lives and don’t care about politics. Orange County, for me. Lots of teslas and cybertrucks everywhere, mostly owned by first generation immigrants who don’t care about the political noise, just want a practical electric car.

it sounds like the bubble is in Orange County. Not everyone is able to ignore the side effects of "political noise"

Ah yes when I want to escape my insular, ivory tower life, when I want to connect to common, everyday Americans, the first place that comes to mind is Orange County, CA. These salt of the earth people don’t worry about frivolous little concerns such as the cost of living. Unaffected by petty concerns, Joe Mainstreet of Orange County, CA looks at a line up of electric car options for him and his family, and every the pragmatist says “give me the $80k giant toe nail clipper”.

We know. A lot of people want him dead. Let's talk about the car instead.

This is the world that the Supreme Court dreamed up for us in their Citizen's United ruling. Now that money is equivalent to speech, we all have to carefully weigh if our purchases will be used against us in our political system.

To anyone who is/was a crusader against cancel culture, recognize the source of it. Become a crusader against Citizen's United instead. It would be a much more productive coalition.

It was absolutely the nail on the coffin for democracy, right after Mitch blocking Obama's SC nominee.

>Weeks ago, he used Starlink for political retribution against Ukraine. He’s unelected, unaccountable and has repeatedly and brazenly tried to undermine US democracy and insert himself in international affairs.

You are deeply, utterly misinformed and loudly ignorant.

Ukraine uses StarShield, which is owned/operated by the USGov. Starlink is a civilian service not for military use.

If you can't be bothered to perform a simple google search to educate yourself about basic matters such as this in a few seconds, why should anyone listen to any of your other (ridiculous) points?

You yourself might want to do a quick Google search or AI chat and see:

Musk says SpaceX did restrict Starlink, as Ukraine says the tech has been restored

> In a post on social media site X, Musk said that Ukraine had been violating Starlink's terms of service by using it for offensive military activity.

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/24/nx-s1-6015482/ukraine-starlin...

I don't see how that refutes the points of the above comment. What you posted is logically consistent with it. Deductively, it's possible that Starshield, fully controlled by US Gov and given to Ukraine by US Gov was temporarily limited/revoked by US Gov due to some potentially geopolitical-escalation-relevant tactic disagreement, and concurrently or as a fallback Ukraine surreptitiously used civilian Starlinks for offensive military activity and that part was then understandably stopped because of Starlink ToS enforcement.

There is no conclusive proof of the Starshield access side being manipulated by SpaceX.

100% agreed. Puts into perspective who you're talking to on this website.

Hear fucking hear. Every time there's a Musk-related product release posted here, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

To be frank, I think this community's time has come and gone. Most of the people remaining are opportunists who don't care about the trail of blood this man has left behind him.

(Of course, these comments will be flagged into oblivion.)