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DerekJohnson
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If Starlink is the best product then it shouldn't be banned by grifting other countries. It was like when cable TV burst onto the country and every fiefdom in the US targeted it with franchise fees and permits to extort the most out of the cable providers. If you are a country that doesn't like a Starlink satellite pumping down streaming and mobile telephone services that you can't tax versus your control of your nationalized TV stations or your nationalized cell companies, then screw them. The Euros do the same thing with US based social media services. Clearing defacto tariffs to benefit US companies seems like what Trump was voted in to do. Maybe we should just wait until the chicoms have a clear shot at the market. Remember that the T-Mobile and Sprint merger opponents weren't consumers it was Verizon and AT&T. They didn't want the competition of a real competitor.
Starlink is going to be, for better or worse, like Standard Oil. They are going to own the singular most powerful network in the world.
It's going to destroy places like North Korea, Russia, and China that rely on informational firewalls.
It's also going to be a massive power for our? Intelligence agencies to be able to wield.
I'm not at all surprised the US is pushing it. Whether it ends up a good thing for us? or not is yet to be seen.
How is that different from the big banks and the cell companies coughing up all their data on people in the DC vicinity on January 6th without warrants? I'll trust Elon who freed Twitter over the DEI hate America CEOs of Bank of America or AT&T. Standard Oil actually made gasoline available to the common American. There really haven't been any long-term monopolies in the US outside of government support monopolies. Too much money, too much new technology. Break up Big Blue and GM were hot topics by leftards in the 60s.
The US government supporting superior US technology is now a bad thing for the Hate America crowd.
Dems would be pushing whatever China has as an inferior competitor if Retardamala Harris was the WEF puppet. Biden’s handlers had Elon in multiple investigations once he started supporting free speech on TXitter.
Also, agree with @thechatch on whether it’s good or bad, but there seem at present to be worse options for our national interests.
Just remember, if you are reading wapo and believing it without doing your own fact checking, you are most likely believing something that is not true.
WaPo is about as reliable as MSN.com or whoever is paying the Dazzler for posting his tracked links.
Not sure how the Throbber feels about Starlink getting pimped by the US government overseas. On the one hand, it's GOOD to have American technology providing free flow of information in backward fuck places like N. Korea or remote locations across the globe. Maybe some Zulu boy becomes the next Steve Wozniak or @haie.
On the other hand, it feels kind of slimy that Elon may be capitalizing on his chummy relationship with Trump. The whole DOGE thing was advertised as an out of the goodness of his heart effort for truth, justice and the American way. The fact is Starlink kicks ass a product. If people are that concerned, innovate and come up with something better.
As the esteemed @RaceBannon says, both can be true.
MSNBC/Maddow were pimping a story a few months back about the defense department having a huge contract to buy Teslas. Only issue- it was a Biden project to look at EVs, no decision had been made, Tesla was the only company that responded, and then the project was cut. Other than that, MSNBC nailed it. I'm going to wait until new facts come out.
I’m all for the US Govt promoting American companies overseas.
What are we going to pretend we haven’t been doing that for 200 years already? We have toppled governments at the behest of the fucking Chiquita Banana Corporation.
We’ve also spent the last 3 decades slushing tax dollars through NGOs that didn’t even do anything. Trillions in fraud.
But we’re gonna sweat over an actual American company getting pumped in foreign countries? lol not me.
It's also very much in our strategic self interest for a plethora of reasons.
If Starlink and Tesla weren't legitimately great products then maybe I would care.
I'm streaming season 1 of Suits from 2011 and the Tesla sports car is the ultimate status symbol that Harvey Spector had to have. Second show from that era that pimped the Tesla EV
Just shows the pop culture manipulation we're bombarded with
Now a Tesla is fascist
War Donna! Though Harvey banged some hotties, too.
brb, jo
Donna does rule. Loved the series as does my wife. Now half way through the last Season 9. A little down hill with the writing and plots. Have the new series Suits LA on the DVR. Haven't heard much about it. Still drinking scotch in the office though in 2019 in Season 9 so still good.
I'm drinking bourbon in the office in 2025.
(Jefferson's Ocean, voyage 18)
Is that acceptable?
I've watched Suits LA. It's OK but I wonder why they did it. Just do a LA Law remake from the 80s