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I think I’d laugh myself unconscious if Trump nationalized Space X.
I've been saying for years that it needs to be nationalized. And this is a really good time to do so; Elon is showing that him being in charge is a national security risk.
But Trump 100% doesn't have the guts to do it.
That's the CO part of the TACO
I have said before I will eat both of my socks if a SpaceX rocket and ship fly humans to the moon and safely return by 2030.
I will also eat both of my socks if a two bit mob boss turned fascist nationalizes any significant corporate or industrial anything.
Fascists don't outright nationalize shit, because if they did, the entire oligarch class that is a huge part of their support base would turn on them instantly.
Fascists make deals with, facilitate, get kick backs from corporate oligarchs.
They essentially never seize their assets outright, because that would undermine the entire capitalist system that the corpos rely on, and support fascists so that they will keep getting tax breaks and grants and other government subsidies.
Ah but you're basing this analysis on competent historical fascists
Find me a fascist movement/party/figure that's formally controlled a state for more than 20 years, that's outlasted its big special leader boy... you know, a 'competent' one.
Mussolini's lasted 21 years, and he was waaaay younger than Trump when he started.
... Are you going to call Mussolini 'competent'?
Fascists are definitionally incompetent and irrational, they are literally anti-Truth with a capital T, the philosophical, as close to objective and reasonable 'truth' we can get.
But, they are also very well definable by understanding that if they fuck with the money too hard, the money will fuck them back.
You’re almost certainly right, but since the situation is already off the rails, I just figured I’d throw nationalization out there for laughs.
Trump would rather just give the ISS transport job back to his bff putin
SNASA is that you?
Lil NASA X
Gaddammit that’s annoyingly good.
The IP trace shows it’s coming from the SMoon!!!
Yeah, I doubt he could manage that.
Not likely, Trump is pro privatization.
nationalise, and then privatise?
Claim Musk is a dangerous foreign influence and force a sale like for Tiktok
He'll just flog it to someone more compliant.