Elon sucks, but SpaceX has saved the DoD gargantuan amounts of money, just sayin. Understanding this helps make plans to thwart him that would be more realistic.
arstechnica.com/science/2017...
This is legitimately selling the rope with which people will hang you, “yeah we’ve enabled and rewarded an open opponent of democracy but look at the DOD savings” is as short sighted an argument I can imagine.
I'm not interested in convincing you otherwise, he sucks. But if you want to grok just how irresistible the tech has been, look into Starlink in Ukraine. It's not the kind of deal that military organizations turn down without losing wars. I don't have a good answer
They had to creat a whole layer of separation and renegotiate prices to prevent him from blacking out their comms at whim, it’s not a deal, he’s selling what should be a publicly owned service to only customer who can afford it.
If we can pass a law forcing someone to sell TikTok you should be able to do the same to a defense contractor actively working to undermine the entire fucking government out in the open
Just like with Tesla, Musk wasn't fundamental to SpaceX. He was the money guy and likes to pretend he's the one pushing things forward when it's largely other people behind the scenes. Getting rid of Musk would be getting rid of dead weight
That’s the killer part, even signaling they could lose money due to Elon’s conduct would force the board to get rid of him, his whole standing is held up by inaction
