This is frankly scary. Elon has been thoroughly radicalized. And the US casually talks of invading other nations. We need to reduce defense spending and maybe reduce all money that flows to SpaceX or other Musk companies. Otherwise this merger of the government and corporate power could be a dark future.
Also an interesting note from the comments on that website:
> Yes Heritage Foundation is the same org that developed Reagan’s Star Wars / SDI in the ’80s and more recently wrote Project 2025
Musk wasn't radicalized, he's always been this way. As the article says, SpaceX was founded with Michael D. Griffin, the head of Strategic Defense Initiative -- the very space weaponization program that Golden Dome is now modeled after. Griffin started the Mars Society with Zubrin (another war hawk), then took over NASA and funneled billions of dollars + people and plans to SpaceX before they had done anything.
What's really scary about it? What happens if US actually attacks baddies and wins the war?
It might sound like an impossible task; but it's not. Defences are mainly to augment the first strike, that is, to counter the (relatively) few second-strike weapons that survive American first strike. It's not hundreds but perhaps only a few of a few dozens of them, and defence does not need to be absolute, if a few slip through, it's still OK.
Ummmmmmmmm, for starters killing millions of civilians? Then filling the atmosphere with the soot of nuclear war resulting in global famines? Consider also that 1 singular missile reaching NYC kills 1.5 million Americans in the 1st 24h, and injures 3 million more. You can't 'win' a two sided nuclear war lmao. Only someone completely microwave-brained by ideology and with a deep hatred for human life would consider an offensive first strike.
These days, offensive first strike doesn't need to be nuclear at all. Nuclear will work even worse than conventional (because airborne debris from nondestructive previous nuclear hits may wreck subsequent incoming warheads).
Also see https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_syst...
This is frankly scary. Elon has been thoroughly radicalized. And the US casually talks of invading other nations. We need to reduce defense spending and maybe reduce all money that flows to SpaceX or other Musk companies. Otherwise this merger of the government and corporate power could be a dark future.
Also an interesting note from the comments on that website:
> Yes Heritage Foundation is the same org that developed Reagan’s Star Wars / SDI in the ’80s and more recently wrote Project 2025
Musk wasn't radicalized, he's always been this way. As the article says, SpaceX was founded with Michael D. Griffin, the head of Strategic Defense Initiative -- the very space weaponization program that Golden Dome is now modeled after. Griffin started the Mars Society with Zubrin (another war hawk), then took over NASA and funneled billions of dollars + people and plans to SpaceX before they had done anything.
The whole let's pretend to try and colonize Mars with private enterprise to help build the technology for SDI in plain view was conceived by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Advisory_Council_o...
(and indeed, lots of them were Heritage Foundation people)
What's really scary about it? What happens if US actually attacks baddies and wins the war?
It might sound like an impossible task; but it's not. Defences are mainly to augment the first strike, that is, to counter the (relatively) few second-strike weapons that survive American first strike. It's not hundreds but perhaps only a few of a few dozens of them, and defence does not need to be absolute, if a few slip through, it's still OK.
Ummmmmmmmm, for starters killing millions of civilians? Then filling the atmosphere with the soot of nuclear war resulting in global famines? Consider also that 1 singular missile reaching NYC kills 1.5 million Americans in the 1st 24h, and injures 3 million more. You can't 'win' a two sided nuclear war lmao. Only someone completely microwave-brained by ideology and with a deep hatred for human life would consider an offensive first strike.
These days, offensive first strike doesn't need to be nuclear at all. Nuclear will work even worse than conventional (because airborne debris from nondestructive previous nuclear hits may wreck subsequent incoming warheads).
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