It’s all about dominance in space

Why have these two oligarchs been willing to take actions that cause so many of their customers to jump ship? What’s the connection between Bezos’s preventing the Post from endorsing Harris and Musk’s weaponizing X for Trump?

  • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
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    28 days ago
    1. Harris wants to increase taxes on the rich. They stand to lose the most to that.
    2. Getting guaranteed government contracts is an insanely profitable gravy train to companies; particularly military spending.
    3. More so if you can actually insert your company into government logistics ( say, space flight, internet/communications and mail? )

    Hypothetical crazy talk:

    1. Potentially they want to start being fully dystopian and being their own governments as a way to cement a “legacy”.