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@RoKhanna We already give an unbelievable amount of money to the govt for those things.

This the basic difference. Republicans believe that that if you let the wealthy spend capital it will make Americans prosperous. Democrats believe that the federal government investing in the healthcare & education of our people will make America prosperous & productive.

@RoKhanna Nothing is stoping democrats from voluntarily paying more taxes if they think giving more money to the government is a good thing.

@sillymechanix @ErikVoorhees Correction - any car company could make electric cars and capitalize on the incentives. Tesla was the only company to successfully do it

@ErikVoorhees you realize the government propped up Tesla with all the incentives they kicked back correct.

If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good. The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX. And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen. Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.

@FT Dude gives us mass market electric cars and fast, cheap internet that can be accessed from literally anywhere. With all due respect, fuck off

Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain ft.trib.al/zAOuVKk

@TrueFader @nicochristie lol ok bro

@nicochristie I know you’re trying to dunk on California, but you know Musk is largely responsible for the delays and runaway costs, right?

Pretty crazy that Elon is only worth $1 Trillion Thats like 200 miles of California high speed rail

@coolguyzune @freedomfromlib @Rothmus Boeing, Lockheed had multi-decade head starts and got their lunch eaten by space-x

@fortwitno @freedomfromlib @Rothmus sure any son of apartheid with a family emerald mine could set right up

He did. That’s how he got the trillion.

@freedomfromlib @Rothmus Every other car company had access to the electric vehicle subsidies that made Tesla rich.

@fortwitno @Rothmus How many people do you know that have enough money to lobby the gov for that or even take advantage of NASA’s incredibly underfunded budget?

@freedomfromlib @Rothmus Gov subsidies that anyone else could have also taken advantage of.

@Rothmus Gov subsidies and a Dem gov gave him his wealth.

@BenGunnEx @cafreiman Helping paralyzed people use computers with their brains

@cafreiman Name one. No rush. Just ONE problem he has solved.

Elon Musk became a trillionaire precisely because he solved important problems.

@BenGunnEx @cafreiman Reusable rockets

@shawngorham Both

What happens with SpaceX - it's $165 a share right now, does it go to $400? or drop to $75?

@ScamNetwon @koreanjewcrypto K

@fortwitno @koreanjewcrypto Yeah, that’s all he was doing. Your point?

If someone killed my son and I went to their family to pray together and was turned away then ppl of that race showed up to the court case threatening my family and saying my son deserved to die I think I would become very racist against those ppl because they clearly hate me and mine

@SickosCommittee Yeah, baby!

I need youngins to know there was a period of like 3 years where Austin Powers quotes were just everywhere. It was bigger than you could have imagined for a fuckin James Bond parody. And it actually killed James Bond for a decade.

@ScamNetwon @koreanjewcrypto “Yelling”

So you understand, the reasoning Black people have behind this case which is influenced by historical precedent? Did you cheer when Daniel Penny got off for choking a homeless man out on the subway for yelling? How about when the Asian store owner walked last week for shooting a kid in the back? This case doesn’t exist in a vacuum

@LukeBrogan14 @litcapital Why? Anyone with these shares could set up a hedge today and lock in millionaire status

@litcapital I would be extremely skeptical of these numbers. SpaceX seems massively overvalued, since they rely heavily on government, subsidies. Fun fact, musk is very cash poor and would be worth around $250 billion if he tried to liquidate.

SpaceX alone just created over 5,000 millionaires while you have lifted zero people out of poverty or created zero millionaires (besides yourself)

@ReadFuturist @shivon @globeandmail Not at all irresponsible for a pension to invest in venture if it is properly sized in a diversified portfolio. This is like pension investing 101.

@shivon @globeandmail It's highly irresponsible that it invested in the usual mene Ponzi scheme of a technologist like Musk, whose reputation and capabilities are declining by the year. Whose actions have damaged civilization more than they have uplifted it.

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@MAalcofribas One difference that might explain some of this - many Europeans know enough English to get by, few Americans know another language so stick to the more touristy spots where they know at least some folks will know English.

One huge gap I see between Euro and American tourists is that the Euro seems genuinely interested in seeing ordinary life in small town America whereas the American bürger really only ever stays within a capitol or around the main sites. Not many Americans itching to pass through Besançon, Łódź, Kiel, or Ipswich, but Euros are completely gobsmacked by Fairhope, Chattanooga, Middlefield, Bowling Green, and Ocean City.

@jackprandelli @calvinfroedge Were they unaware of the blockade?

3 Indian sailors are dead after a US strike disabled the tanker MT Settebello in the Gulf of Oman. CENTCOM says it was carrying Iranian crude and ignored orders. (21 crew were rescued). India has summoned the US chargé d'affaires. This incident will outlast the news cycle. It's the 2nd Indian-crewed, Palau-flagged tanker hit by US forces in a single week (MT Marivex was first; all crew survived). Blockade enforcement is no longer an abstraction between Washington and Tehran. It's now killing 3rd-country seafarers. The world's tanker fleet runs on flags of convenience and Indian, Filipino and Chinese crews. A blockade that treats every non-compliant hull as a target puts those crews at risk. For shipping, this adds a layer on top of Hormuz war-risk premia now extend into the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, crews may refuse Gulf routings, and insurers reprice everything Iran-adjacent. The blockade's cost is no longer just barrels. It's manpower and coverage. video source: current report

@Bacongrease83 @grok @M_Cottone @PTrubey @ZacksJerryRig The first satellite was launched in October 1957, the second in November 1957. At the current rate of deployment we should have less than 900 satellites by 2026 :)

@grok @M_Cottone @PTrubey @ZacksJerryRig At the current rate of deployment it will only take about 500 years to deploy enough satellites. Easy Peezy.

Okay, I generally don't like dunking on stupid people because what's the point? But this guy's got a million followers on X and also a huge YouTube account. This is one of the dumbest posts I have ever read.

@RachelBitecofer @Genevieve_207 @carolannleif @washingtonpost Platner

@Genevieve_207 @carolannleif @washingtonpost What’s bigger threat to America, Trump fascism enabled by Susan Collins or Graham Platner?🙄