Elon Musk Is Creating His Own Texas Town. Hundreds Already Live There.

[elleng]

Employees of SpaceX have filed a formal petition to create the city of Starbase. Its first mayor would be a security manager for the company.

'Over the past few years, Elon Musk has expanded his footprint in Texas, moving his companies from California and building offices, warehouses and manufacturing plants across a growing number of Texas counties.

Now Mr. Musk is trying to do something that few, if any, titans of industry have done in a century: create his own company town.

Mr. Musk has long talked about his desire to make a new town — which he hopes to call Starbase — in coastal South Texas, where his rocket launch company, SpaceX, is based.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/us/starbase-texas-city-elon-musk-spacex.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. Musk wants to create the whole world in his image.

[madinmaryland]

4. In other words, a SHITHOLE.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Right outside La Grange.

Slap me low, if you want to go.

Ask OAITW r.2.0: It's Robert Heinlein in reverse.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Just imagine the HOA bylaws.

You're fired!
The moving truck will be there in the morning.

[Irish_Dem]

5. All the rules will benefit him only.

The concept of public good is foreign to him.

[Nittersing]

6. Will they have to shop at the company store?

[Hekate]

8. Precisely the song I was thinking of

“Saint Peter don’t ya call me ‘cause I can’t go—
I owe my soul to the company store”

[Hekate]

7. Just what everybody dreams of: a company town owned by a guy who wants to put a chip in your brain

[Johonny]

9. Me, me, me

[CoopersDad]

10. Article without firewall HERE:

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http://archive.today/v4ViG

[CoopersDad]

11. HERE is a map of the proposed town, Starbase, Texas. "Meme Street", to be precise.

Interesting how close to the Mexico border this is!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/TBuHfdck3xtkb6Tw6

[LeftInTX]

13. It's close, but it's also in the middle of nowhere! It's where all the rocket launches are.

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It's a weird place.

[JoseBalow]

12. Could I interest you in some undeveloped acreage in Guyana?

[wnylib]

15. With free Kool Aid for everyone.

[Blue Owl]

14. Whacko, TX

[JoseBalow]

16. You

[Chipper Chat]

17. Doesn't Disney World have a company town?

I think it is called Celebration

[LeftInTX]

18. This will be another Von Ormy

“The police dept evidence room was literally an 18-wheel trailer that was unsecured. I found unmarked boxes filled with everything from weapons to narcotics … and anybody could walk in and they did.”

Michael Suarez resigned from his position at the city’s animal shelter after City Council voted to suspend its animal control program.

https://www.texasobserver.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-freest-little-city-in-texas/