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Government subsidized purchase of a private company. Fantastic. All funded by the taxpayer to send rockets to a dead planet and to burn up all the energy on our alive but suffering planet.


Point to any government subsidies for SpaceX - or do you think your salary is a subsidy and everything you do at work is worthless to your employer?

SpaceX has paid for contracts to deliver services to the government and those services have saved the government billions of dollars compared to the alternative.


You're claiming that SpaceX has not received governmnent subsidies, grants, and contracts?

> those services have saved the government billions of dollars compared to the alternative

Source? All I can find is some guy saying it.

And it doesn't really matter what they've saved. It doesn't excuse conflicts of interest.


A top government employee in the previous regime. Not some guy. You yourself can check and see that launch pricing for the government is cheaper from everyone apart from Boeing these days.

Turns out capping costs help. (See SLS) (See Europa Clipper)

Contracts aren't subsidies and you know that. It's straight up dishonesty to mix them up.

McDonald's and Burger King are government contractors


I said "government subsidized" and then later expanded out to subsidies, grants, and contracts. You know what I meant. There isn't dishonesty remotely anywhere.

And the point of conflict of interest still stands and is unargued while we still argue the meaning of "government subsidized".


Contracts aren't subsidies and that's just one facet of your dishonesty. Where are these grants?

The other part is the money you're talking about was almost all spent/awarded before this current government. There's your conflict of interest.

You aren't mistaken. You know you're spreading misinformation about this stuff




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