• dagarnok@50501.chat
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    4 days ago

    So much for the free market unless it no longer benefits SpaceX and Elon Musk in general. Welcome to post capitalistic America!

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    4 days ago

    As someone who relies on Starlink to get functional Internet access? Please, please give me more options.

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    If you really hate Elon Musk, I have two words for you. “Thanks Obama”

    Every single aspect of Elon’s “success” has been heavily subsidized or paid for by the US government (aka, tax payers).

    EDIT: It seems the “Thanks Obama” meme has fallen into obscurity. It is an older joke in which everything was blamed on Obama, no matter how far fetched. I even used italics.

    The point of my comment is that Elon is the biggest “welfare” beneficiary in history. All of his businesses would be a financial failure without billions of dollars in grants, benefits and contracts from the government, and that he’s been sucking on that government teet since Obama was in office. In fact, it was Obama who saved Tesla, hence the 'Thanks Obama" joke. Even Obama is aware and why the crashing Teslas scene is in the Netflix movie he produced. Now Elon is looking for federal assistance to block his competition.

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      4 days ago

      We know the “joke.” But that wasn’t what you were doing. You are actually literally blaming Obama.

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        Sure. That’s why I put it in quotes AND italics. Let’s also ignore the context that Elon is once again begging the federal government to save his ass.

        The joke didn’t land. I’ll take that L.

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          Well maybe you don’t get the joke then… It’s meant to be sarcastic. So when you’re actually earnestly blaming Obama for something, it doesn’t read as a joke anymore.

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            If I was earnestly blaming Obama, I wouldn’t have purposely phrased it and typed it the way I did.

            I was too subtle and it didn’t land. It happens.