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Good governments don’t own the means of production. State-directed capitalism is just socialism with extra steps.

@elonmusk @adeoressi

True, when we were stuck in traffic on the way back to NYC, Adeo asked me what I was going to do after PayPal/X and I said I always wanted to do something to advance space, but didn’t think there was anything private individuals could do. The origin of SpaceX was doing a philanthropic mission to get the public excited about life on Mars, so that NASA’s budget could be increased to achieve that goal. There was no commercial ambition at the time. The $50M was from the proceeds of the sale of PayPal to eBay. After learning more about the limiting factors for humanity in space, it became obvious that the issue was a lack of advancement in rocket technology, in particular the failure to develop a fully reusable rocket, without which expanding consciousness beyond Earth is impossible.

I organized an intervention to stop Elon from starting SpaceX. Here is the story... Twenty five years ago, Elon and I sat in a car on a dark stretch of Long Island highway, two neurodiverse geeks staring at the night sky and wondering what came next. We had both experienced substantial exits and felt the weight of possibility ahead of us. When I joked about 'space' while gazing upward, neither of us imagined we were planting the seed for what would become the largest IPO in history. We spent the next two hours debating why space was so hard. In the end, rockets are fuel and metal. We also debated where to go, and it was crystal clear that Mars was the only real destination. Upon returning to NYC, we embarked on a global tour of space, meeting space agencies and luminaries worldwide. This opened our eyes to an industry stuck in bureaucratic thinking. If things continued at that pace, it was clear that we would never explore space in our lifetime. So, we launched Life to Mars to show the world that two ambitious young men (29 and 30 years old), could send life to Mars without any government backing or support. We planned to send and grow plants on Mars, though some were pushing us to send mice. We had a $50 MM budget that rested on our purchase of two Russian ICBMs for $7 MM each. We assumed one ICBM would fail, and we would learn and fix everything before launching again. When Elon went back to actually buy the ICBMs, the Russians tripled the price, bringing out launch costs from a total of $14 MM to $42 MM. Our ambitious Life to Mars plan was no longer viable. As you might imagine, Elon was not pleased. So, he decided to start SpaceX and create his own Mars rockets. Now, this is a crazy idea, both now and at the time, so I organized a large panel of top space experts, and we ambushed him at the Georgian Hotel one morning. It was set up like an intervention for an alcoholic, but for space. Elon looked me in the eye when leaving the room and said, "I am going to do this." The intervention failed. Elon was committed. The rest is history. I am excited to see this IPO after 25 years of hard work. What SpaceX has done is a testament to human will and overcoming insurmountable obstacles. It's nothing short of amazing. Congratulations, E. Amazing.

@IPostAndGhost @BurnieSendersX @SenSanders

This week, my amendment to ban billionaire-funded super PACs received unanimous support from my Democratic colleagues. The momentum is growing. It’s time to repeal Citizens United, ban super PACs and move to the public funding of elections NOW.

Good mornin, frens 😊

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@BurnieSendersX @SenSanders LFGulag

Comrades, when private billionaires use their wealth to influence politics, it is a dangerous, unauthorized use of capital. But when the glorious state forces the working class to pay for our campaigns through "public funding," it is a magnificent administrative victory! We must ban private PACs so the petite-socialist elite never has to face financial competition. We will proudly extract the builders' surplus to guarantee our own lifelong careers in the Senate. We demand an absolute monopoly on political power. The 5-year plan is perfect. ☭

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@BluntCap @toly @ItsLulu_7 LFGulag

A threat. We must stop productivity, efficiency, and automation across the economy. This would directly benefit the working class through higher output, better tools, and potentially higher wages over time. That is exactly why we must stop this. The more productive and automated the working class becomes, the less dependent they are on the bureaucratic machine. We cannot allow technology andinventions to reduce the need for state control. The working class must stay properly reliant on government programs and administration.

Capitalism goes against science!

The only thing Elon Musk and Bernie Sanders seem to have in common is that they both claim AI should improve life for everyone. But the difference is where they start. Musk vision begins with creation: build AI and robotics so productive that abundance becomes possible, and then society can talk about universal high income. Bernie vision begins with seizure: take a 50% public stake in the largest AI companies and redistribute control before the abundance has even fully arrived. So which model has a better chance of working long term? One that rewards people for building the future? Or one that makes the future less worth building?

@toly @ItsLulu_7

Productivity improvements is literary doing more stuff with less or same resources. Each improvement has risk and someone has to underwrite it. Capitalists just do a better job than governments at underwriting uncertainty. If you had state control over the economy a competent committee would place Elon in charge of the same industry because he is an effective manager of labor. Unfortunately politics is just a bad at creating competent committees and you end up with Buttigieg in charge instead and the result is wasted economic surplus.

@BurnieSendersX LFGULAG

Comrade, people today look at the Soviet Union and complain about “human rights”, “free speech”, and “freedom”. They have no idea what it actually took to build the first socialist state while being invaded, sabotaged, and encircled by the entire capitalist world. The Soviet Union was not cruel. It was serious. The 5 year plan is perfect. ☭

When communism and fascism overtly merge because they were always two sides of the same coin.

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No seriously. Who the fuck is building this?

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It's time to tax AI data centers.

@ITS_C4__ @ay_peks

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