[ceejayoz]

I have no complaints here. It's a good use of subsidies. Government should use subsidies for this sort of purpose.

I just take issue with pretending they aren't subsidies, and incorrect assertions NASA/government had little/nothing to do with their success.

I'm an enormous fan of SpaceX - you could probably have heard me scream a mile away when they caught the booster last month - and have a personal dislike for Musk since the Twitter acquisition and his hypocrisy there. Nothing in this thread from my end criticizes SpaceX for being subsidized. In fact, I'm all for it.