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by TheDong 181 days ago
If that's a normal thing to do, why aren't we hijacking russian teslas right now? Why haven't we made Microsoft push an OTA update to windows to bluescreen all military PCs in Russia? Why haven't we made Google and Apple push Android/iOS updates that cause all phones in Russia to crash?

I'm confident that even if at war with China, the US would not hijack random civilian cars, yes. That's absolutely absurd.
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ben_w 180 days ago
> why aren't we hijacking russian teslas right now?

The USA isn't at war with Russia right now, despite what Russia may think about NATO (despite Ukraine still not even being in it) and proxy wars.

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rootusrootus 181 days ago
> why aren't we hijacking russian teslas right now

You mean Ukrainian Teslas. We are currently on Russia's side.

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JumpCrisscross 180 days ago
> the US would not hijack random civilian cars

Of course we fucking would. Maybe not in a shooting match, which I guess means a proxy war. But if we went to war? If Americans were dying? It would be ridiculous not to.

Do you think China would permit vehicles it could disable to allow Americans to travel to and from jobs that might involve attacking it? Do you think they have some moral obligation to allow that?

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