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Re:SpaceX reprioritized to cyber defense and overcoming sign... by tonyhb on Saturday March 05, 2022 @08:41AM (#30567483)
A little off topic, but about calling all super-wealthy people in America "oligarchs". That's just not true - if anything, they're plutocrats.

An oligarch is someone who was given their business by the government by force, often with murder and jail involved to the oppressed. Like Abramovich receiving state owned oil and steel companies. Musk built paypal, helped revive tesla, and built SpaceX using his own money as collateral. He didn't get handed NASA.

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Re:SpaceX reprioritized to cyber defense and overcoming sign... by markdown on Saturday March 05, 2022 @09:36AM (#30567931)
> An oligarch is someone who...

That's how the word is/was used by the Russians, but isn't really how it's used by the western media. Any Russian billionaire is called an oligarch; it's used as a substitute for plutocrat.

Musk, Bezos, the Koch brothers, Soros, and a few other billionaires are plutocrats, ergo, they are oligarchs.

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Re:SpaceX reprioritized to cyber defense and overcoming sign... by kidme5 on Saturday March 05, 2022 @03:10PM (#30571396)
>> He didn't get handed NASA

Funny, about that..read the career bio of Mike Griffin.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin

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