Because how could a democrat white house possibly justify paying money to a Musk affiliated company? That’s how bad politics is now.
If Musk were actually the asshole people made him out to be, he would have just pulled starlink until payment. He didn’t. No one seems to appreciate or even realise this on the musk hater side.
You have no idea if Musk is telling the truth. All of the stories in the news are based on Musk’s tweets and one unnamed DoD official.
There’s no transparency, therefore no independent confirmation that the US / EU countries supporting Ukraine aren’t actually paying Space-X for Ukraine’s use of Starlink.
> Shotwell told reporters she led efforts to get Pentagon funding for Starlink services in Ukraine. “I was the one that asked the Pentagon to fund this. It was not an Elon thing,” she said. “We stopped interacting with the Pentagon on the existing capability.”
I somewhat disagree in that the current administration has also been very open to paying SpaceX for all its other contracts, even buying more crew launches etc.
Paying for Starlink got turned into a public spat and thus ended up drowned out by idiots.
I mean one could say the current admin is paying for all those SpaceX contracts only because there’s literally no alternative left - yup, after Vulcan 5 ending due to restrictions on engines import from Russia there’s literally no other heavy launch provider in continental United States. Same with crew launches in some way.
It’s becoming obvious that he is on the Kremlin side nowadays. You can’t even pretend he’s both siding it anymore. He never criticizes Russia interests, and parrots the Kremlin discourse quite consistently.
You need to recognize that supporting Musk in 2023 is supporting the Kremlin. Is that really what you want to support?
>You need to recognize that supporting Musk in 2023 is supporting the Kremlin. Is that really what you want to support?
I support pragmatism, so if Elon does good things I can support him on those things and if he does bad things I can be critical there as well. I am also not morally bound by political partisanship.
Also, FWIW, your comment is literally ridiculous considering that this whole thread is about SpaceX providing communication capabilities to Ukraine for free for the last year. That is obviously support that was contrary to Russia and without a doubt has been an instrumental component in helping Ukraine endure the Russian invasion.
SpaceX didn’t provide communication capabilities for free. But ok.
My comment is ridiculous? Sure, maybe, whatever, I couldn’t care less. But let me point out that your point is ridiculous as well.
Even Hitler has done "good" things at some point in his life, right? How comes you don’t praise him for the highways or whatever?
Elon is a disgusting piece of shit, as he has repeatedly proven so. Sure you can turn a blind eye and praise him for his "free support" of Ukraine, but 1. It’s false and 2. it doesn’t change the fact that he’s pushing fascism and is an apologist of the worst dictators.
So make it look like I’m crazy and you’re wise, but deep inside we all know what we stand for. And by supporting him you don’t stand for anything good. Just saying.
Terminals are 1 thing, but the service isn’t free either.
I have no problem with SpaceX. They do some very impressive engineering.
I am just appealed by the cult of personality for someone who I think is a malevolent actor, a compulsive liar and actively contributing to the return of fascism.
I guess I don’t understand your point. You seem upset that Elon isn’t footing the entire bill and therefore have decided to believe that he is actively helping the Russian invasion or contributing to fascism. Why is it his responsibility to fund anything at all.
He certainly may be a liar and an asshole, frankly almost every person I have met on this earth have those qualities to them at times.
If Musk were actually the asshole people made him out to be, he would have just pulled starlink until payment. He didn’t. No one seems to appreciate or even realise this on the musk hater side.