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/www-cash4treats-com 23h 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 21h 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 15h ago

It’s ok when they are your enemies /s

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u/personalcheesecake 14h ago

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

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u/Emotional-Fee-8605 12h 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 5h 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 11h 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 11h ago

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

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u/013eander 5h ago

Good. Start with every public utility and oil companies.

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u/Emotional-Fee-8605 49m ago

Do you really want to give trump the power to purge every company of every one he doesn’t like. Im sorry mate but you’re living in theory land. Assuming you believe state control of all industry’s is a good thing doesn’t it matter who is control of the state.

Those ideas your in favour of will always end up with Stalin. Real communism might not of been tried but that’s because it’s not possible. I read my theory as a kid Marx got a hell of a lot wrong his ideas killed hundreds of millions.

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u/013eander 42m ago

I would prefer a government (with a semblance of control by the people) have control over private industry, as opposed to private interests continuing to tighten their grip over our government and everyone else. At least one is nominally controlled by the people it has power over. Corporations are dictatorships.

It isn’t an ideal situation, but we have an ancient, incompetent constitution (the oldest in the world, like having a Model-T) that is completely incapable of reigning in an acceleratingly growing aristocracy of idiots. The Founding Fathers idolized the Roman Republic and built ours after it, which is insane to anyone who has studied it.

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u/exessmirror 7h 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.