After giving in to Putin/Xi’s demands to not provide starlink internet service over Taiwan, DOD officials are growing nervous about trusting Elon’s Space company with our national secrets

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    2 months ago

    If you’re going to rely on private firms for your aerospace espionage endeavors, maybe factor in their leader’s sanity before you sign the contract with them.

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        2 months ago

        What do you value higher - that one company’s profits or the public? Why are you so selfish? Why can’t you just be happy that that one company gets to hold the entire population hostage over the necessary good or service that they can then monopolise? It’s so much easier to squeeze the poor for all they own when their very survival depends on the things you can hand out or hold back at a whim. Something something the free market will probably prevent abuse or something, so it’s perfectly okay.

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      2 months ago

      I 100% agree with you but is there someone else in thr US who can reliably launch satellites? I know several othe companies are developing these systems but I don’t think any are anywhere close to Space X’s reliability or capability.

      Space X is doing some awesome stuff and I hate that the awesome has to be tempered by the owner is a piece of shit.

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        2 months ago

        They’re only able to do it because they’ve received trillions of dollars from the federal government.

        They should nationalize SpaceX before they ever let someone like Musk get the security clearance needed to be in that position.

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        2 months ago

        SpaceX is wasting government money, they have almost spent all of the money they were given to land people on the moon, on building a rocket that can’t do basic stuff.

        That is not awesome.