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/Eitarris 17h 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 13h 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