But none of this gets to the most jaw-dropping part of this. Musk and Thiel propose making this network of hundreds of surveillance and attack satellites into a subscription service that the Musk/Thiel/Luckey consortium would own and the Pentagon would subscribe to. Not only is this crazy and absurd but it goes without saying that in no normal time would anyone at the Pentagon be okay with the US not owning the hardware at the center of national defense. We’ve seen how this goes with Starlink, where Musk routinely threatens to turn the system on or off based on his whims and opens up separate lines of communications and perhaps deals with adversary leaders like Vladimir Putin.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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. 🤕
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.