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Musk to Force Pentagon to Build and Then Pay Him to Use Network of Killer Satellites
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this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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Of course Musk and Thiel and Palmer freaking Luckey would use this opportunity to not only get apparent no-bid contracts to build this unworkable mess, they'd get permanent parasitic access to government funds just to keep it going.
No part of this makes any strategic sense.
Forget the grift. Letting degenerate corpos have full ownership and control of a global network of attack satellites sounds like a fast track to the Cyberpunk timeline. Why would they not turn it on their masters when they have outright stated they think they should rule the world?
Subscription military service. Some really dystopian stuff I’ve only heard of when imagined in some pretty cynical sci-fi books.
Once these fascists are in jail, it will be important to nationalize spacex, starlink, and this bullshit if it ever happens.
We're in the dogshit timeline, we don't get to have nice things like justice. :/
Not with that attitude.
Makes no strategic sense for the government and for America!
Makes perfect sense if you're billionaires who want to cripple the government and make sure it can never actually stand against you ever again. 🤕
he already has turned off starlink at the behest of putin once, he would do it every single time putin demands, like during ELECTIONS, WHICH some of the voter machine uses apparently.
It's already clearly established that profits come first. This would be a US Defense System... until someone pays more for it not to be.
How do YOU like subscription fees US Government? Shitty isn’t it? Then they raise prices on you later and further enshittify. Go ahead, come back in a decade when I told you so. I’ll wait. Or you can just strap Musk to the outside of one of those rockets and launch it. I prefer that much more.