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Privatization set us up as hostages to big pharma, big airlines, big defense contractors, corrupted university research, satellite comms, cloud computing, etc, etc.

Universal health care. Public schools. Public infrastructure. You can have private hospitals for optional plastic surgery.

And now Huntsville—who voted for this madness—is going to be decimated.

Yeah but today we'll have plenty of launches. They're just going to explode a lot more often too.

Well, 2022 was wrong. Privatization is good ONLY for transferring vast sums of money out of the pockets of taxpayers and into the pockets of oligarchs.

He should have cut off and put in a padded room after the Thai Cave rescue.

Thai has consistently been my stand. Parallel: Seagate Submarine ignoring industry safety standards and accountability in favor of cost-cutting for profit. Safe travel is the goal. Musk built death traps for the road. Don't trust him to be careful because he's not shown care for the public yet.

Totally agreed with you AG, jeep your head up and your 'beans' hot!

The idea of sending people to Mars is a pointless money pit except for those making money off of it.

It ages well.

Don’t you hate it when you’re right but too early?

If grownups ever get back in charge of this country, nationalizing SpaceX should be a priority.

Making that private entity the most powerful in our known space. 2/2

Ownership and pride of what we could accomplish when knowledge was the driver, not profit. Did it because we could and what was learned was shared.

Really? You were spot on.

You’ve always been spot on! Keep going hard we love it

We shouldn't privatize NASA especially the role of exploration. But NASA has always had a goal to push boundaries for private industry to follow. Even systems and tools NASA uses include private industry and workforce to design and build. Relying too much on one vendor is always a bad idea.

Old soul you. Hindsight kids. It’s real.

But but but to be a trillionaire Elon needs to have all the private contracts to provide those services to the government.

I agree

It's too late dear. We are on our own.

Spot on!!

on.soundcloud.com/GUFqaN7U8mW5... FUCK YOU ELON YOU TECH FUCKING CLOWN

Still holds true today.

You were right. Kamala was right. Hillary was right. What do these 3 things have in common

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No time for I told you so's. We all saw shit coming. How we gonna stop it now?

Raked across the coals by people who clearly have no perspective on the history/legacy of NASA. Just breaks my heart seeing the disrespect towards one of our finest institutions

Everything in America is about money. They’re going to charge us to breathe soon

You were right. Not only has the quality and safety of space exploration dropped, but the potential for profit has means it attracted the full attention of humanity’s worst leeches. This is why we have to resist privatizing eduction.

The government has watch dogs and whistleblowers inspectors General‘s and all of those people to make sure things are running the way it should

Yep. And here we are.

Now we can add postal service to the list..

Privitization doesn't benefit We the People.

Seems you know what you’re talking about.

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Whenever I hear we're "privatizing" something I assume the worst. If the private sector could do it better they'd have already done it. Privatizing means the government has done something that is working and some for profit folks have figured now they can squeeze money out of it until it is ruined.

I guess they didn’t like the unpleasant truth.

I hear you! When Musk was negotiating to buy Twitter I said he was trying to be the new Rupert Murdoch so he could become Dr. Evil. I had to mute the post because of all the hate.

You were right dog.

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Because of interplanetary radiation a Mars trip is unfeasible.

This is what’s behind all the bullshit Privatize everything Subscribe to tornado watches and warnings. Only $59/yr Upgrade to elite status for weather for your county. Only $9.99/month Hurricane info for $12/ minute Extra charges may apply based on usage volume

I don’t see why. The only thing Obama okayed that I disagreed w/was the NASA stuff.

Sometimes is sucks to be right...

lol shouldn’t have been

You were/are correct!

Yeah about like the right take for sure.

Full circle. Trump and Musk are planning on closing NASA. Which musk must think they are his rivals. One thing about NASA there are virtually little crashes or explosions. If there are, they work hard to fix problems before they try again. This is about musk getting his hands on more contracts $$

He thinks he's King Midas.

You can add healthcare and education to your list!

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They just need to shut X & SpaceX down and deport Elon and take all his money… pay back for his loans etc

Republicans like to privatize so they can rob the government blind.

Not by me. I have always felt that!

I thought the same thing. Couldn't wrap my head around how stupid it was. 🤦‍♀️

I blame TBBT for this. They put Dick Rocket volunteering in a soup kitchen and made us think he was a real boy.

Not by me. You were correct then and it is correct now.

Prescient

Same at the state level. The tension between agency employees and corporate executives with no public service experience as new agency directors could get ugly the first year. CEOs did not know what and how much they truly did not know. Their shiny new corporate vision was DOA 17 ways from Sunday.

I don't think the federal government should privatize anything. We the people should own it, privatizing leads to corrupted billionaires having their way with our tax dollars. NASA, USPS, health care, none of it should be private. If it is for societal benefit, it must be public.

People who disagreed w/ this then likely still disagree (even more so now in misinformation land) and cannot see how very right this is. I see this in healthcare and no amount of actual firsthand experience can convince people who see privatization as better..because “free markets” & “competition”

65 years ago NASA put Men on the moon. Now with Elon calling the shots we have random exploding rocket ships! 😮

I still can’t believe we ever allowed privatizing prisons. I mean I know why they did it - greed - but JFC how could anyone besides the greedy assholes making money off that system think that was a good idea.

I’ve been saying this as well and caught a lot flack for it. NASA was doing it better in the 70’s and 80’s than Space X is now. Maybe Make America Great Again folks need to rethink their targets and put NASA back in charge.

Did they find oil on mars or something, dang.

One gazillion times yes.

Holy cow. You called it even then. #prescient

Of course, you’re also the one who told us Merrick Garland was playing some kind of 3D chess and Trump would end up in jail

Who knew that would be the “good old days” 🙄

We need a new metric at NASA for financial effectiveness rather than just yearly budget. Something like 'successful hours on task in space' because SpaceX is shitting the bucket over the last 5 years with hardly any progress to plan. Governments do space exploration for the people. Not profits.

Congress failed the country by not investing in a second generation Space Shuttle.

Imagine if we viewed the military the way the GOP likes to view the post office.

Turns out you were so right!

Just about every space sci-fi film I’ve seen over the last several years has corporate villains running space programs. Is it life imitating art or the other way around?

You were correct in 2022... And still correct today

You were right then and are still right now!

Nah. This take was correct the entire time.

You can pay to indoctrinate your whyte or bright children at Elons exclusive schools.

Something new to watch is the Tesla ROBOTAXI. I see Musk is working to get things changed to open the door to this. The company I work for supplies Tesla and they re asking us to quote this ROBOTAXI. We are not trying to win it.

It’s so damn dangerous letting private companies into this type of work.

So right on target!

Ahead of your time!

And the postal service…

it, uh, doesn't work in driverless cars or space rockets, though.

How times have changed, and not for any sort of better.

Unfortunately, there's a whole lot of idiots who bought into this whole "government should be run like a business" bullshit. They don't know or care that it's a SERVICE, not a business.

Well now the entire government is up for auction. Highest donors first & free of regulation. They are all liars. Whatever Trump says is distraction.

Boy were you right..you still are..

You'd make Nostradamus blush. It was clear to see that for-profit prisons were a bad idea. With the rise of the American oligarchs "for-profit" attached to any previous non-profit service is a noun meaning worse service at higher costs for the benefit of the few.

Or deaths

If NASA had the fail rate of Space X, heads would roll.

I agree with that take! Especially since they're not going to Mars to colonize. They want to go to the moon and Mars to mine resources. This will be paid for with our money. We, however, will not see any of the profits. Musk and the billionaires will.

The year that they shut down our space program I recall thinking…this is so bad. So wrong. This is the start of the end, the start of the dumbing down of America, and the start of corporate run America (privatization). Science no longer considered important.

Love how you kept the receipts. Let it breathe like a fine wine. 🤌

That aged like a fine wine. 🥂

Yes, it is amazing to watch "free market" become "giving rich guys and special interests your tax dollars for things the government used to do." I mean, look at school vouchers. Talk about a religious/private school subsidy. Using our money.

You were and are 100% spot-on!

I’m very concerned about what could happen to the safety of NASA missions if the private sector takes over

You nailed it!

Nostradamus, She Wrote Good call!

“Privatizing stuff makes it suck”. Just wanted to see it again. Thanks, all….

Actually NASA has been outsourcing for a long time. Before SpaceX it was a JV between Lockheed and Rockwell called United Space Alliance. Not sure why SpaceX is now so dominant, most likely lowest-cost bidder.

Meanwhile Government 39 trillion in debt, mortgaging our children’s future, billions wasted overseas, no budget in years and running on a deficit. Privatization may not be the only answer but government programs do not have a track record of success.

You are a visionary!

Our government should confiscate and de-privatize SpaceX and their tech, in order to keep it out of the hands of our enemies. F*ck private profit! PUBLIC PROFIT is what we need!

I wrote an article for an indie publication on why Musky needed to shut up and pay taxes back in 2021 and got some death threats from it

A rocket and an ICBM are basically two different versions of the very same thing. I'm not so sure we should be letting private citizens build ICBMs...

But how do you expect all the millionaires to become billionaires, and all the billionaires to become trillionaires, without taxpayers funding private corporations to provide public services?

I had arguments with friends for advocating for NASA and keeping corporate raiders out of our space and science missions.

I didn’t follow you then but I would have agreed!

Yes, we are facing the enshitification of everything.

I remember.

the problem with privatizing something like space exploration safety takes second place to profits. There will be more risks and possibly more deaths by turning our space exploration over to a private company.

👍 It's like the opposite of the boy who cried wolf.

You were right!

Pity they didn't listen.