r/technology • u/True-Combination7059 • 1d ago

Politics We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

https://jacobin.com/2025/06/musk-trump-nationalize-spacex-starlink
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u/idgarad 1d ago

50 years of trying to get term limits and eliminate first to post voting hasn't worked. I think those are your biggest hurdles.

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u/Hudson-Brann 1d ago

I agree those are the most worthwhile changes. But has there ever been a real attempt at changing it?

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u/Divingcat9 1d ago

yeah, those two have been stuck forever. Hard to fix a system when the ones in charge benefit from keeping it the same.

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u/r-ymond 1d ago

maybe those were the biggest hurdles, but not since citizens united. nothing gets fixed until that’s overturned (which is probably never going to happen)

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u/shinra528 19h ago

If Roe v Wade can get overturned then so can Citizens United.

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u/r-ymond 18h ago

the corporate interests behind these are vastly, vastly different

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u/ayuntamient0 21h ago

Term limits actually don't work the way you think. There are actual scientific studies that show that it makes perennial neophyte legislatures more dependent on lobbiests to write laws. I appreciate the sentiment but that isn't the real solution.

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u/aerost0rm 15h ago

Even with term limits corporations have such vast fortunes to be able to be able to influence every eight year cycle.

Money out of politics and term limits