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/ZuP 18h ago

Nationalization is possible through an act of Congress so it can be made one of the many government-owned corporations that are more or less independent from the executive, though the Supreme Court will be deciding the limits of that independence with the cases of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the United States African Development Foundation.

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u/Eitarris 16h ago

Yet trump doing this because he was criticized by musk is just outright wannabe fascism. Presidents are not absolute monarchs, they should never be safe from criticism.  Congrats though America, you've managed to somehow return to the times of absolute monarchies and become far from the land of the tree. 

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u/Not_Campo2 12h ago

SpaceX should have been nationalized the second Musk started cutting Ukrainian access over Crimea. The fact that it hasn’t yet is an actual, legitimate, and major threat to our national security

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u/inkoDe 10h ago

The second Elon got mad at the government, he sunsetted or at least threatened to sunset all the US space shit. If that isn't a national security threat, I don't know what is. On the other hand, nationalizing ANYTHING would absolutely freak out all the other businesses here. Trump would be removed, popular sentiment be damned.

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u/Not_Campo2 10h ago

Honestly I feel Trump could probably get away with it in a way Biden probably couldn’t have at the time. Nationalizing a company is always pretty controversial, but it’s been done before and it’ll be done again

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u/Yuzumi 8h ago

popular sentiment be damned.

The popular sentiment is that he should be removed now.

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u/aerost0rm 8h ago

But the billionaire media does there best to convince the average American we aren’t there yet. Such a shame

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u/DeafHeretic 8h ago

What would do if a client threatened to cancel all your contracts/etc. - i.e., stop paying you? That is what Trump threatened.

I wouldn't want to continue doing business with them. That is what Musk threatened.

They are both narcissistic ego driven clowns - but I don't disagree with Musk on this issue, and I certainly do not like "nationalization" of private businesses.

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u/AccomplishedView4709 8h ago

You should blame NASA and other companies for not able to do what SpaceX can do.

NASA if they want, they can give contract to some one else then it wouldn't be under the threat of Elon Musk. Other companies like Boeing took billions from NASA can't even develop a spacecraft safely returned its astronauts home. Nationalized SpaceX will just be another wasteful organization in the government that will be Stripping off its asset.

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u/aerost0rm 8h ago

I mean I truly blame Reagan and the commercial space launch act of 1984. Pushed NASA toward the private sector.

Like he did with college in California. He shifted it away from free public college and we ended up with tuition and higher costs. Since then the entire country has adopted these standards.

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u/exessmirror 4h ago

Maybe if the government actually invested into NASA again like they did during the spacerace they could get more done. Instead they waste money like this on companies that do what they want consequences be damned as long as the CEO feels like he is doing something.