SpaceX Cleans Up on Pentagon Deals, Despite Musk's Free Speech Rants
According to The Independent , Musk's SpaceX is slated to win a $2 billion 'Golden Dome' satellite deal with the Pentagon. This comes despite his public grandstanding about free speech and alleged disagreements with government. One might almost believe these public spats are just theater for the masses, while the real business of war profiteering continues uninterrupted, quietly greased by
taxpayer dollars. While Musk crows about free speech and 'de-weaponizing' X, his companies eagerly pocket billions from the very government he often claims to critique. It's a convenient arrangement: play the rebel, secure the massive defense contracts. How many drone strikes or surveillance operations will these taxpayer-funded satellites enable? No doubt the 'free speech' will extend to
criticizing those who expose the military-industrial complex, but less so to questioning the ethics of profiting from it.