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So basically its Militech from Cyberpunk 77 but with much worse marketing / PR, and as a political party.
I mean, at least its more honest ???
its much more lame, what state-like power does Musk have? None. All the corps in Cyberpunk have equivalent powers to nation-states, their own armies. McPolice and all.
i think closest to that irl currently is Palantir and some of the MIC Corps but they don't fight their own wars yet.
Fair points.
Lets say Musk aspires toward Militech, lol?
EDIT:
But also, Musk did just literally have his goons be allowed to waltz in to damn near every government database of any kind and probably make offsite copies of all of that data.
So... that's your much more state-corpo nexus right there, granted this relationship / level of access turned out to be temporary.
Unless his goons gave themselves backdoors, or exposed accidental backdoors to... basically anyone, by ripping up the security systems with granted god mode admin, in order to be able do what they wanted.
Which... seems to actually be what they did, what happened.
EDIT 2:
PMCs very much are their own military/police forces.
You just don't often hear about them and what they do, because they tend to have decent OPSEC and media control.
Like uh, 03, Katrina.
Blackwater just deployed to New Orleans, started shooting 'looters' and going around breaking into houses and 'securing' firearms.
They did this for a period of time with no actual prior mandate or authorization.
Said mandate and authorization were formally given by the government several days to weeks after they just fucking deployed themselves, and then formally offered their services...'We're already on the scene, sir' type shit.
true, i think many billionaires want such kind of power, but i think for now they prefer to influence Government policy, and many ways it works better, i.e. no corpo-wars.
Sorry I may have now made two additonal uh, 'content updates' to what you replied to, in the time yoh made your reply, but yeah, it seems like we are on roughly the same page here.