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Elon Musk’s DOGE partner Vivek Ramaswamy says they’ll scrutinize $6.6 billion Biden loan to Tesla rival Rivian

BirdinHand said:
Only a select group of billionaires is going to get their slice of US taxpayer money damnit! 😂😂😂

Bend the knee or you get cut out of the profits!
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Which group that is, is always, and has forever been due to who is in office ... But make no mistake, there IS ALWAYS a group of billionaires being enriched.

But we get threads like this acting surprised ...

This is rather comical.
 
Cope said:
Which group that is, is always, and has forever been due to who is in office ... But make no mistake, there IS ALWAYS a group of billionaires being enriched.

But we get threads like this acting surprised ...

This is rather comical.
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I’d say this is one of the more egregiously “in your face” examples in modern history.

Let’s not even pretend that half the appointments are even remotely qualified to lead the silos they’ve been placed in charge of. They’ve been appointed to figure out where to siphon off profits within those silos and then slash departments (and with that, regulatory enforcement that will enable profits for private entities) within those silos.

And DOGE, in and of itself, is just blatant.
 
Maybe BORG (Billionaire Oligarchs Running Government) needs to look at the government subsides Musk receives for Space X. Space X would not even exist if not for the massive government subsides it receives.
 
zincwarrior said:
We used to break up monopolies.
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Which is only possible when competitors exist. There aren’t any for Starlink and Boeing proved it can’t be trusted with space travel. You don’t have to like Elon, but we’re stuck with him unless you can find some other eccentric billionaire willing to do science without regard for financial loss.
 
Napoleon said:
Which is only possible when competitors exist.
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No. You break them into smaller entities that compete with each other.

Historically, if Musk were on such a commission he would have to sell his shares or make other arrangements. He has literal direct conflicts of interest.
 
Jezcoe said:
Lex Luthor had some sort of moral code.

When he became President he at least put LexCorp into a blind trust run by Talia Al Ghul.
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Lawful evil VS chaotic evil
 
Napoleon said:
Which is only possible when competitors exist. There aren’t any for Starlink and Boeing proved it can’t be trusted with space travel. You don’t have to like Elon, but we’re stuck with him unless you can find some other eccentric billionaire willing to do science without regard for financial loss.
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That’s just the government with extra steps, it already exists, it’s called NASA.
 
Carjosse said:
That’s just the government with extra steps, it already exists, it’s called NASA.
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Elon has accomplished more over the last year than NASA did in 30 years. NASA peaked a long time ago.
 
zincwarrior said:
No. You break them into smaller entities that compete with each other.

Historically, if Musk were on such a commission he would have to sell his shares or make other arrangements. He has literal direct conflicts of interest.
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Which would only count if he were on an actual government commission.

DOGE is a fake entity where billionaires get to harass government employees to the cheers of their fans.
 
Napoleon said:
Elon has accomplished more over the last year than NASA did in 30 years. NASA peaked a long time ago.
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If NASA had the money Elon does they could do so much more.
 
Dans La Lune said:
The more people that expose Elon Musk, the better. He's been a fraud and conman from the get-go, hence his constant need to jimmy his way into Founder Status at companies he didn't build. He's a brand-artist who is good at playing the game of capitalism, but not actually at building anything. He gets fat on government handouts.
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^^^^^ (the bold) 💯

Exactly!
 
Carjosse said:
If NASA had the money Elon does they could do so much more.
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NASA is also under certain restrictions like not blowing stuff up and raining toxic debris down on an endangered turtle sanctuary
 
Hatuey said:
Per people who I hear have many degrees from prestigious universities, Elon Musk is our Tony Stark. Everyone remember that time Tony Stark worked with the U.S. president to review his competition's contracts?

It was issue 14 of the Avengers : Bureaucracy Wars series in 88. Tony Stark was part of a non-existent commission with no power to violate employment laws or government policy and contracts. He had 1,000,000s of adoring proud boy fans screaming he could.

Oh that Elon, he is just like Tony!

😀
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He is more of a Justin Hammer in my book.
 
Napoleon said:
Which is only possible when competitors exist.
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??? If there are competitors, then it's not a monopoly.

Napoleon said:
There aren’t any for Starlink and Boeing proved it can’t be trusted with space travel. You don’t have to like Elon, but we’re stuck with him unless you can find some other eccentric billionaire willing to do science without regard for financial loss.
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Why would the government look for an eccentric billionaire? Billionaires aren't the only ones who can produce these goods.
 
Elon is going to put people on Mars, guys. I hear we will have communities of people living on Mars, and Elon will be one of them.

These are the visions this 53 year old man has had that nobody else could have. He is going to do that with his money that the government grants him.

😀
 
Michael Cole said:
??? If there are competitors, then it's not a monopoly.
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You should tell the government that. Microsoft would be happy to hear it.

Michael Cole said:
Why would the government look for an eccentric billionaire? Billionaires aren't the only ones who can produce these goods.
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Yet they didn’t. Elon did.
 
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