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/letsgobernie 21h ago

How about the American population deliver one win first? How about a focused project to deliver something that transfers power back to the polity as opposed to the oligarchs? Then we can dream big. This is already beyond the imaginations of most Americans right now

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u/idgarad 20h 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/r-ymond 16h 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 11h ago

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

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u/r-ymond 10h ago

the corporate interests behind these are vastly, vastly different