He’s trying to buy a pardon
Though if trump’s dismantling of the FBI occurs maybe he won’t need to. Either way, drops in the bucket for the most successful emerald mine offspring
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Wait until you hear what he did with the jewel money. He rented a huge mansion in college and threw huge parties charging people to enter, how many people he enabled to party and drop out including himself? He's even proud of it he thinks he's so amazing and self made for doing that. This is who this country idolizes. A ketamine addicted, crime family son. Everyone else? Fuck you, swat team raids your college mansion party, charges you for illegally running a night club among whatever other charges. It almost glows in the dark that something was protecting that family from any prosecution.
He’s even proud of it he thinks he’s so amazing and self made for doing that.
The real joke of these elite universities is how education has become an entirely tertiary function. Social networking with rich people and padding your resume matter so much more than attending actual classes.
Elon throwing a continuous kegger for a few years probably was what introduced him to all the children of spooks and bureaucrats and investment bankers necessary to make him into the billionaire he is today.
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Democrats: Let's give this man billions in subsidies.
Are you saying there is a law that explicitly states to give Elon Musk billions on subsidies or are you just giving a bad faith argument for the effort of Western government trying to cut dependence from petrostates?
They have specifically given at least one of his companies a lot in subsidies. SpaceX lives off the government teet.
Edit: People in this thread don't seem to realize that specifically over paying for something is itself a subsidy. SpaceX has been overcharging for DoD contracts, missing deadlines, and running cost overages for years now. They've also been given contracts where other competitors weren't even considered.
SpaceX got key govt contracts early on and is the most cost competitive launcher. The comercial space program paid off tremendously for the US.
the most cost competitive launcher
We defunded the NASA launch program and gave it to a bunch of defense sector flakes who had to reinvent what NASA had already accomplished while still kicking back cash to their investors.
These aren't competitive bids. They're kickbacks that occasionally get us a little space technology along the way.
We defunded the NASA launch program and gave it to a bunch of defense sector flakes who had to reinvent what NASA had already accomplished while still kicking back cash to their investors.
Because everything NASA ever launched was crazy expensive, albeit they had some very cool projects
Subsidies for EVs are one thing, government contracts to deliver satellites and astronauts to space is another (essentially government just using and paying for the service)
So if you go to the supermarket and buy a carton of milk, you're subsidizing the supermarket?
Yes, especially if you paid to build the store and it would fail without your purchases.
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Among other things already mentioned here, he thinks trump can help him take revenge on Norway, which invested in him early on but now does not allow Tesla vehicles to be sold there.
What? I'm pretty sure you can buy Teslas in Norway
You can buy, but you can't get them
You are thinking of Sweden. There's a strike there
A friend of mine bought one late 2023 and got it a few months ago. Has something changed?
It seems strike is in Sweeden, not Norway
Musk is pumping up Trump's coffers so that he gets elected and follows through with his promise to ban EV imports from other countries, essentially cementing his monopoly on the EV market that Tesla currently dominates.
Long story short, don't buy a Tesla. They're kinda shitty anyway.
Moron Musk
Elon Cuck
No, fascism is capitalism at its endpoint. It's the Natural Evolution.
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Musk already made his billions from government subsidies and investments. Now is the time to pull the ladder behind him.
We gotta stop getting hung up on these animals being inconsistent with themselves and each other.
While I see the humor in this, it's not the kind of thing that the right wing would care about. Both of these takes are from people that believe in strong class hierarchy, with those on top owning/controlling most everything. The contrary take on EVs doesn't even clock as dissonant if all you care about is punching down on people not like you, and want big powerful men to do the punching for you. It's not seen as dysfunction, it's toxic masculinity on display where guys are constantly jockying for their spot in the pecking order; that's normal for people like this. So, they really are on the same team in the eyes of their constituents, with Musk having some political power without being a politician per-se.
At first, I was thinking "If Trump is anti-EV and Elon owns a company that makes EV's, why would Elon support Trump?"
then I was like "ohh. Oooooohhhh"
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Ever felt like you have been dealt a blow of injustice from a corporation? Brace yourself we are on a path to them gaining an even more powerful foothold over our lives.
A power that removes choice and forces the consumption of their conditions to maintain the high quality of life Americans have worked so hard for and have come to expect. A lot is at stake, let’s make the corporations suffer rather than us.
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