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Comment by bigyabai | original | SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15

[−]bigyabai · 2026-11-15 Sun 00:24 UTC · link

It's done by thousands of people, who are employed by a republican.

Reducing their work to the (self-serving) political alignments of the CEO is a big part of the optics issue.

[−]p-e-w · 2026-11-15 Sun 00:52 UTC · link

Given how Americans tend to self-sort into political castes, I suspect that the majority of SpaceX employees are now ideologically aligned with their CEO. Working there would be too risky for them otherwise.

[−]bigyabai · 2026-11-15 Sun 01:12 UTC · link

That may well be true, but it doesn't really change my point.