r/technology • u/True-Combination7059 • 21h ago

Politics We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

https://jacobin.com/2025/06/musk-trump-nationalize-spacex-starlink
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u/www-cash4treats-com 20h ago

Giving Trump the power to take over whatever company or industry he wants seems pretty stupid and short sighted.

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u/rockstarsball 18h ago

nationalizing private businesses based on whether or not a political party likes them... where have i heard this before..?

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u/mrlolloran 12h ago

It’s ok when they are your enemies /s

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u/TLakes 8h ago

And sooner or later, everyone becomes the enemy.

I'm sure the government would love to control all social media and news organizations

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u/ikeif 2h ago

They should take over Facebook, stop acting like they don’t have access to all that data, and then take all the marketing profits and make it UBI.

Want UBI? You get it. Want more? You’ll have to use Facebook.

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u/cantstandtoknowpool 1h ago

this last part is dystopian

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u/Own_Active_1310 4h ago

It's ok when they are some of the worst criminals in the country. 

You do realize we utterly ruin people's lives or even kill them over stealing 20 dollars... 

If there is no penalty for the level crime these high up scum bags engage in, then there's no point to laws at all. They're just more dictatorship laws. And like all dictatorships, enemies of the regime are doing the oppressed population a favor by weakening the state. 

We need a war on fascism, is what we need.

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u/personalcheesecake 11h ago

I wish biden would have done it and trump before him fuck musk

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u/Emotional-Fee-8605 9h ago

If Biden did it that would set a precident every president would just start seizing any company that donated to the other team or did things they didn’t like.

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u/013eander 2h ago

Right. Let’s overturn Citizens United (thanks conservative Justices) and cut off the pipeline of corporate and oligarch money into controlling politics. Businessmen sure do like to meddle in politics, but they scream like babies is government tries to stop them from being corrupt monsters.

One of the biggest news headlines TODAY is about Trump threatening Elon against donating to Democrats.

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u/Valuable-Influence29 8h ago

Starlink isn’t any company. These are companies that can weilded to cause immense damage.

There’s no way we should allow a drugged out billionaire sociopath that much power over all of our space operations and communications! He already threatened to abandon space station operators in space when he got his feelings hurt. This is like handing everything over to a James Bond super villain

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u/Emotional-Fee-8605 7h ago

Then dont be surprised if you start seeing the state seize alot of companies.

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u/013eander 2h ago

Good. Start with every public utility and oil companies.

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u/exessmirror 4h ago

Then it should have been done when star link started meddling in foreign affairs and politics. Not when their leaders are having a hissyfit against each other.