• Uniquitous@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    If SpaceX is that critical to national defense & foreign policy, it should be nationalized.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, we didn’t nationalize Lockheed-Martin or Boeing or Northrop-Grumman or Raytheon or General Dynamics, etc. I think we can survive without nationalizing the company as we’ve done throughout our defense history.

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        1 year ago

        Those companies had boards of directors and people at the top who were known to be reliable partners. SpaceX has an idiotic juvenile at the helm. The situations are barely even comparable.

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          SpaceX and Tesla now have effective senior management that insulate their divisions from Musk. His impact there is increasingly minimal, if at all present.

          Where Musk is allowed to be Musk is Twitter, an emblem of his wonderful management style.

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        Its unclear that we are surviving them, or at least not paying them blood money too.

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        None of those companies had the ability to stop their equipment in the field from working if they decided one day they’d rather support our enemies. And they didn’t have a history of being influenced by our enemies.

        The article makes it clear that Musk has already gotten Ukrainian soldiers killed with his shenanigans. We should not allow him the chance to do it again.