1. Expose in detail the massive corruption at the very top levels of the Chinese Communist Party. While tariffs and sanctions can always be spun as an attack by hostile foreign forces, if the Chinese people, most of whom are desperately struggling, see how much money their top leaders have embezzled, game over.

  2. We break the Great Firewall of China. The best way to do that is if @elonmusk opens up Starlink to China. Yes, the CCP would retaliate against him and he’d lose the Gigafactory and his other assets in China. But the CCP won’t be in power long after that.

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  • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    48·
    3 days ago

    I love the claim that being aware of embezzlement will lead to overthrowing of the government in China, yet in the west the populace are all well aware of this fact and have not overthrown their governments after decades.

  • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    43·
    3 days ago

    this is hilariously out of touch but i just want to zoom in on one thing

    This person doesn’t understand how Starlink works. You can’t just press the Starlink button for a country, you have to install the tranceiver infrastructure so that people can talk to the Starlink satellites. That means distributors, installers, factory production of the transcievers, adding more satellites to the constellation to cover the additional bandwidth - if Musk tried to spin up black market Starlink as a way for people to get around the firewall (which wouldn’t work because there are already much more accessible ways to do that) the Chinese Government would have so many vectors to stop that from happening and also a dozen ways of punishing Musk personally, like for example kicking Tesla out of the country.

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      32·
      3 days ago

      No you don’t understand, Musk could paradrop in the anntenae for Starlink like how South Korea sends flash drives full of k-pop into the DPRK! smuglord

    • gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      You can rig up a transceiver (I don’t know much about the transmitter part, I’ve only messed around with the receiver) in a garage over the course of a few weekends. It won’t work unless you have the keys to Starlink, which Musk could publish to China, but I don’t know how he’d keep it as a paid service in Taiwan and Korea. Of course, all of this requires so much work to do that even if it happened only hundreds would go through the trouble to actually do it.

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      I literally know a bartender in Wuhan that’s got a mortgage. How many full time bartenders can afford their own home on a single income in the west?

    • invo_rt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

      me, watching random walk around videos of different places in China

      I can’t believe the evil seeseepee said “YOU WILL PLAY IN THE PARK YOU WILL GO TO THE MALL YOU WILL WEAR THE JORDANS” to all these people

      classic

  • Bob_Odenkirk [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    221·
    3 days ago

    Chinese people knew how corrupt China was in the Jiang/Hu eras, and while they certainly weren’t happy about it they weren’t overthrowing the government then. Now in a time of considerably less corruption thanks to Xi’s efforts some magical exposure of the corruption that still exists would probably just lead to people shrugging and saying “at least it’s better than 20 years ago”.

    • prof_tincoa@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      “Um, actually” it’s not the amount of corruption that matters, but the optics (see the Brazilian coup of 2016)

      It’s still the most ridiculous and unfeasible “plan” 😅🙏

  • LadyCajAsca [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    24·
    3 days ago

    of course it’s by chinauncensored…

    also… elonmusk? does bro think that elonmusk will just casually lose assets in china all for starlink breaking through the firewall? Even if it works (which according to someone here, it won’t) how will he sustain it? And besides, if according to him the CCP is already cracking down on dissent, what makes him think the chinese people will have the mass power to spontaneously rise up?