Starbase was officially formed earlier this month after Musk’s aerospace and defense contractor prevailed in a local election. It is now run by officials who are SpaceX employees and former employees.

As of early this year, the population of Starbase stood at around 500 people, with around 260 directly employed by SpaceX, the Texas Tribune reported. Most other residents of Starbase are relatives of SpaceX employees.

I've never heard anything good about company towns. Doesn't mean it can't happen. To me it just seems like another way for a company to control the workers and a quick path to indentured servitude.

What a truly grotesque situation

Some narcissistic cunt wades in and ruins people's lives, and there's zero accountability

America is fucked, and Texas & similarly stupid states are absolute disasters

Goddamn we're colonizing the colonizers with wealthier colonizers...

I think on occasion NIMBY is the correct stance. Not often, but sometimes.

Lolol. Fuck Texass.

Anyone stupid enough to associate with space nazis deserves the consequences of that association.

It's like they are trying to take us back to the past when they abused the hell out of people.

They are just lucky Americans are generally uneducated and don't know any better.

The notice, sent to property owners in a proposed “Mixed Use District,” would allow for “residential, office, retail, and small-scale service uses.”

I know those words but that sentence makes no sense

Oh no mixed use zoning what shall they ever do

Edit: did yall not read the article? Or is the kneejerk so strong that you can't override it? They're converting the zoning to mixed residential, office, retail, and small-scale service. Nobody's losing their homes. The 'lose right to use property' in the title is from the legal boilerplate and conveniently cuts off 'for its current use', which would apply to industrial plants and such if the area was zoned so.

I used to think people with enough awareness to come over to lemmy from reddit would be the less guillable ones. It's disappointing to see people rage at clickbait just the same