• @[email protected]
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    91 month ago

    A bit off topic. But does anyone else find it almost impossible to be excited about SpaceX now that the owner is uhhh a Nazi?

    I used to love SpaceX and followed it closely since very early on. Now? I wish everyone would quit and the company would collapse.

    • threelonmusketeersM
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      71 month ago

      Yeah, it is a tad off-putting.

      I find that I can still be excited about the progress SpaceX is making, even if the CEO is going off the rails. I’m glad that Gwynne Shotwell seems to be pretty level-headed.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 month ago

        Glad I’m not the only one. Star Link in particular is starting to make me very uncomfortable 😕

        SpaceX ironically was one of the outlets I had to avoid the doom of politics, now it’s just all blending together and I’m running out of places to find any hope.

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          Yeah, now that we know Starlink is led by a nazi, it changes from “a good idea to fund the Starship program” to “a means of controlling people, killing the net neutrality, and giving even more spying capabilities to the US military”. The nail in the coffin for me was when I learned that a senior SpaceX employee (who joined in 2003) was actively taking part in the DOGE thing. Looks like SpaceX might be rotten at its core too, and this is very very sad to learn.

        • threelonmusketeersM
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          022 days ago

          SpaceX ironically was one of the outlets I had to avoid the doom of politics

          Do you think this community would benefit from a “no-politics” rule, or are political topics unavoidable at this point?

          • @[email protected]
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            222 days ago

            I don’t think you can exclude where politics intersects with SpaceX. I can imagine, for example, Trump ordering the FCC to shortcut its process and give SpaceX whatever spectrum it wants and I think it would be unfair to exclude politics from the discussion of that

          • Dave T-W
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            122 days ago

            @threelonmusketeers @BedSharkPal People have been denigrating the good work of the SpaceX engineers for a long time, because of EMs words and deeds. Until they and the senior managers speak to him and dissociate the company from his reckless behaviour, the brand is toxic.