and we have an idiot in charge who shares his time between defending anti-semitism and interfearing in global conflicts.

Bruh, Trump has been out of office for like 3 years now. Have you been living under a rock?

That “shiny metal detritus” is currently providing internet to Ukraine that allows them to fight in this war.

You’re entitled to your hill, but as linguistically correct as you may be, linguistics take a back seat to common usage and national variance.

Nationalized and nationalised are both English terms. Nationalized is predominantly used in 🇺🇸 American (US) English ( en-US ) while nationalised is predominantly used in 🇬🇧 British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) ( en-GB ).

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nationalize

From https://www.etymonline.com/word/-ize#etymonline_v_25713 :

-ize

word-forming element used to make verbs, Middle English -isen, from Old French -iser/-izer, from Late Latin -izare, from Greek -izein, a verb-forming element denoting the doing of the noun or adjective to which it is attached.

The variation of -ize and -ise began in Old French and Middle English, perhaps aided by a few words (such as surprise, see below) where the ending is French or Latin, not Greek. With the classical revival, English partially reverted to the correct Greek -z- spelling from late 16c. But the 1694 edition of the authoritative French Academy dictionary standardized the spellings as -s-, which influenced English.

In Britain, despite the opposition to it (at least formerly) of OED, Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Times of London, and Fowler, -ise remains dominant. Fowler thinks this is to avoid the difficulty of remembering the short list of common words not from Greek which must be spelled with an -s- (such as advertise, devise, surprise). American English has always favored -ize. The spelling variation involves about 200 English verbs.

So in 1694 “-ise” was deemed correct in French, but English has always bounced around between the two spellings, both before and since then. American English has always favoured “-ize” spellings. It’s not really reasonable to try to impose the standards of French in 1694 on English globally in 2023.

And why, dare I ask, should the French form of the suffix be prioritized over the Greek? Latin actually used the Z when the suffix was borrowed from Greek. In French, the letter Z essentially didn’t exist, as even in Latin it was (nearly?) exclusively used for Greek loans. As French evolved from vulgar and unwritten Latin, the Z was replaced by S, which is pronounced as /z/ when between vowels anyway.

So again, why exactly must English hold the etymologically corrupted French form above the actual original one?

Nope. Everyone just thinks youre a joke worthy of a circus act.

Neither. I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt that others didn’t and share something I learned that gave me a different perspective.

Just like I’m treating this question as genuine, though I suspect it’s snark.

He is the Most Divorced Man in the World. And Grimes wasn’t even married to him!

Which media sources do you advice ?

You are far too confident in your knowledge of the world.

Starlink is a strategic asset for the US military. It’s primary revenue stream comes from the US government. China is on record as saying Starlink itself is a threat.

And the reason it’s a threat is because each orbit has a limited carrying capacity for satellites. Starlink is occupying a specific orbit that is strategically valuable for battlefield information services. The US military is funding it in as a race to occupy the orbit faster and more thoroughly than China because there is no current legal regime for limiting who can occupy an orbit and how they must share it after saturation. Therefore, the existence of Starlink itself is a threat to China, and China has said so.

The idea that China is fine with Musk but not if he does this one specific war thing is based entirely on believing the delusion of Musk as a private business person who is just out to make a buck and has no politics. China doesn’t believe that, the USA doesn’t believe that, the billionaire class doesn’t believe that. Only the class-unconscious proles seem to believe it.

Musk is deeply enmeshed in the USA’s project for hegemony. He is operating with significant oversight and collaboration with US government agencies for US power projection domestically and abroad.