• coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org
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    12 days ago

    Although the Heritage Foundation advises using tungsten slugs (i.e., bullets) as interceptors, hypersonic missiles have been opted for instead. To this end, a new organization, the Castelion Company, was established in 2023.

    Castelion is a SpaceX cutout; six of the seven members of its leadership team and two of its four senior advisors are ex-senior SpaceX employees.

    Of course this is about Musk lining his own pockets. I guess that’s what the US government is for now, enriching billionaires at the expense of all other citizen.

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      Yeah. The US government has always been about 80% for the purpose of enriching billionaires at the expense of yada yada yada. Now we’re explicitly shutting down the other 20%, which up until now was doing a really remarkable amount of mostly invisible good works in the world. 😢