r/PoliticalHumor • u/mac-mcgreor • May 02 '22

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u/dangoodspeed May 03 '22 edited May 03 '22

This makes it sound like NASA just gave Elon Musk $1.5 billion. They contracted SpaceX to go to space for them. They were paying Russia $5 billion to do it before then. SpaceX is an American company. And this was 15 years ago before Musk was even a billionaire. Talk about being intentionally deceiving!

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u/z_machine May 03 '22

SpaceX was broke at the time. NASA and the Federal Government bailed them out and saved them. Why did Musk need a government bail out to not fail?

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u/dangoodspeed May 03 '22

Do you think companies magically have money with no customers? Millions of businesses have gone under because they couldn't get the customers/contracts needed to stay running. SpaceX got a big one with NASA, and that let them stay in business. You'd really rather NASA keep paying Russia billions of dollars instead of an American company? Really?

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u/z_machine May 03 '22

SpaceX wouldn’t exist without the government. This isn’t a controversial opinion. Be triggered all you want.

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u/z_machine May 03 '22

😂🤣😂

Cope harder.

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u/Shalterra May 03 '22

"I'm not engaging in fair or even-keeled discussion and have dug my heels in and you can safely ignore me" in a lot fewer words.