FAA reportedly ordered staff to find 'tens of millions of dollars' to fund Elon Musk's Starlink deal

https://fortune.com/2025/03/03/faa-starlink-deal-elon-musk-verizon/

Cut off food for hungry children but $2.4bn for starlink? Also: Conflict of intrest? Or just plain corruption? It looks bad. Also: it is bad.

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frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 14 pts · 1y

Trying to back-end your way into government contracts should result in permanently banning your participation in them! Why no pushback from competitors? They got Trump-dick-stuck-in-mouth syndrome?

SeanBrently@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y

Oh hey Cronyism- that's the other word I was trying to think of.

SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y

End him.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Just kakistocracy

zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 1y

All of the above