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by ripjaygn 616 days ago
I've been a lifelong liberal and won't vote Democrat after seeing how SpaceX and Tesla are being treated by the liberal media, including the publishing of outright fake news by so called reputable outlets. I don't support Trump or Putin or dictators in general. If I vote Republican at some point it'd be an anti-Democrat vote.
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h0l0cube 616 days ago
Democrats aren’t the liberal media, and the current Democratic controlled government also happen to be subsidizing both SpaceX and Tesla
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ripjaygn 616 days ago
SpaceX isn't subsidized and the govt tried really really hard to exclude Tesla from EV subsidies, and reversed at the last minute.
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h0l0cube 615 days ago
Yeah right, but they get awarded plenty of contracts from NASA, which is a money flowing from a Democratic government to SpaceX. Call it what you will, but it doesn't sound like the actions of the government as an institution match up with this rhetoric that Democrat governance is hurtful to Elon's companies.

> really really hard to exclude Tesla

Whatever they really really did didn't actually matter in the end though did it? I'm sure if they tried really really really hard, they could have just stopped it outright with an executive order.

But really, it makes more sense for EV subsidies went towards companies in competition with the leader that doesn't really need it. More competitors means more jobs, and lower prices. Giving subsidies to the established leader (by a whopping large margin) isn't really doing anything useful.

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inemesitaffia 616 days ago
No SpaceX subsidies. It's not a thing in the launch industry.
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h0l0cube 615 days ago
Yeah right, but they get awarded plenty of contracts from NASA, which is a money flowing from a Democratic government to SpaceX. Call it what you will, but it doesn't sound like the actions of the government as an institution match up with this rhetoric that Democrat governance is hurtful to Elon's companies.
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ivewonyoung 616 days ago
Biden held an EV summit in 2021 and didn't invite Tesla.

At the summit he called GM's CEO Mary Barra the pioneer of EVs when GM produced only 28 EVs that quarter and Tesla like 200K.

They also tried to make the EV subsidies not apply to Tesla.

On Reddit any positive news about SpaceX like the first private spacewalk is actively downvoted by democrats and liberals. And any negative news is hugely amplified whether true or not. Mods of large subreddits hand out permanent bans and remove posts if you comment against the narrative even when sourcing official SpaceX responses.

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h0l0cube 615 days ago
> On Reddit any positive news about SpaceX like the first private spacewalk is actively downvoted by democrats and liberals. And any negative news is hugely amplified whether true or not. Mods of large subreddits hand out permanent bans and remove posts if you comment against the narrative even when sourcing official SpaceX responses.

Looking at this thread, I'm seeing that it's the anti-Elon commenters that have been downvoted, flagged, and silenced. And instead there seems to be a lot of conspicuously biased anti-Democrat Elon supporters who seem untarnished. So I'm not buying these claims of persecution.

As for your claims around subsidies, see my responses to the sibling comments – assuming your not a bot.

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