• andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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    I mean, we didn’t nationalize Lockheed-Martin or Boeing or Northrop-Grumman or Raytheon or General Dynamics, etc. I think we can survive without nationalizing the company as we’ve done throughout our defense history.

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      Those companies had boards of directors and people at the top who were known to be reliable partners. SpaceX has an idiotic juvenile at the helm. The situations are barely even comparable.

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        Those companies had boards of directors and people at the top who were known to be reliable partners. SpaceX has an idiotic juvenile at the helm. The situations are barely even comparable.

        Not a student of history I take it? I give you Howard Hughes.

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        SpaceX and Tesla now have effective senior management that insulate their divisions from Musk. His impact there is increasingly minimal, if at all present.

        Where Musk is allowed to be Musk is Twitter, an emblem of his wonderful management style.

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      None of those companies had the ability to stop their equipment in the field from working if they decided one day they’d rather support our enemies. And they didn’t have a history of being influenced by our enemies.

      The article makes it clear that Musk has already gotten Ukrainian soldiers killed with his shenanigans. We should not allow him the chance to do it again.

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      Its unclear that we are surviving them, or at least not paying them blood money too.