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    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.

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        I’d say it’s a good thing we have laws against that, but the GOP has the supreme court now and is hell bent on undoing everything. Thanks protest non voters.

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          I enjoy seeing people whinge about the election as if any vote can fix this now.

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            Who said I’m whining? I enjoy informing protest non voters of what they voted for. And the resulting gymnastics of course.

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              So there was no way votes could’ve been possibly gerrymandered or manipulated? That which now will be completely failed to rectify for the forseeable future.

              E: Just for the record, I voted same as you did if you didn’t vote for this shit now.

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                Nice deflection from the topic of protest non voting. I enjoy watching the mental gymnastics.

                *Lol nice downvote. I enjoy watching the emotions too.

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    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

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      No, this is a misleading headline. The city is proposing a zoning change, and it’s required to give property owners notice using boilerplate language as set out in Texas law. Residential zones are typically the most restrictive, so the move to mixed-use zoning actually will allow owners more options for the use of their own property.

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      They voted to give the town over to the company. No sympathy from me.

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

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      Right. Seems like a common rezoning change. There’s a trend towards more mixed use.

      This does not appear to be exceptional.

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    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.

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    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