• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    My pet theory is that Musk acquired Twitter to destroy one of the most effective platforms for anyone on the left to organize.

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      2 hours ago

      Just wait for the quid pro quo. SpaceX was supposed to get us back to the moon on 3 billion dollars. They are now at 5 billion dollars, and all they have to show for it is a flaming husk of a booster caught by “the chopsticks”.

      For anyone who thinks that was some incredible accomplishment… NASA has been landing rovers on Mars using truly incredible engineering that makes SpaceX look like a bunch of kids eating Baby Ruth bars in the sandbox.

      So if Elon gets appointed to a government position and starts awarding Tesla and SpaceX all kinds of extended taxpayer-funded gravy grift, you will know your pet theory is 100% spot on.

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      3 hours ago

      And/or weaponize it for his buddies to do so instead…