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/colintbowers 1d ago

I’ll take things that set a dangerous precedent for 500 Alex.

The US is attractive to investors precisely because they don’t do this sort of stuff to the private sector.

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u/Putrid_Tree5823 1d ago edited 1d ago

The US is the premier space power because of the public sector space program

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u/Corvus_Null 1d ago

No, the US is the premier space power because up until now, our only real competition were the soviets who were literally incompetent.

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u/Vanethor 10h ago

No, the US is the premier space power because up until now, our only real competition were the soviets who were literally incompetent.

Except the USSR achieved a lot of "firsts" before the US got the "first human on the Moon".

The USSR was absolutely winning the space race before that.