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Musk is a government parasite. He only is telling the truth once to trick you into thinking he's not scum.

richwicks says

Musk is a government parasite. He only is telling the truth once to trick you into thinking he's not scum.

Eh, I think he's flipped. 2-3 years ago I'd say you're right. There's no reason for him to lie about this though. It would easily be provable with test results. It's one sample size, but we've got dictators controlling populations based on faulty testing. We've know they were shitty tests, but it never gets publicly mentioned. It's on purpose I'm sure, but our media has failed us. 100%

As much as Musk is annoying for using taxpayer money for his car business, I admire that he says what he thinks and tough shit if they don’t like it.

The “deadly virus” is statistically as dangerous as a staircase.

(If you wish explanation for that claim I can put it here with an addendum.)

clambo says

As much as Musk is annoying for using taxpayer money for his car business, I admire that he says what he thinks and tough shit if they don’t like it.

Not even annoying really. If the opportunity is there you take it. He used money that was available, I don't fault him. I fault government that gets elected by handing out other peoples money to keep getting elected.

I think every guy here, regardless of relationship status, would fuck a supermodel if they came up and asked you to fuck them. Or at least a chick they found hot. The government came up as a supermodel and was like, here's all this money to build an electric car. Elon fucked it. We all would. Not much else to it and you can't blame the guy really. You can be jealous, but that's a shitty way to live (not saying you are Clambo).

WookieMan says

Eh, I think he's flipped. 2-3 years ago I'd say you're right. There's no reason for him to lie about this though. I

Musk is more classical liberal than anything else. And classical liberals are fundamentally at odds with Leftists, who believe in authoritarianism above all. Musk never left the Democrats. They left him.
And he’s bitter about it and looking for revenge on the assholes who have made him into a friendless nomad.

richwicks says

Musk is a government parasite.

If Musk is a "government parasite" for getting subsidies, so are all of the other major US automakers, let alone all of the big oil companies who also get massive subsidies.

Tesla has fully paid back it's 2010 $465 million dollar government loan......almost 10 years early. How is Ford, GM and Nissan doing paying back their massive bailouts?

Also, Musk and SpaceX single handedly revolutionized rocketry, allowing the US to send our own astronauts to space in nearly 10 years without having to hitch rides on Russian rockets. SpaceX is sending Americans and hardware to space for a fraction of the cost and several years earlier than all of the other legacy government contractors like Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

The US could use alot more "parasites" like Elon Musk.

It's not just White Hat.

Musk knows that if they flip the Senate and Presidency, he can kiss the USAF/NASA contracts bye bye.

The Dems in the House were already trying to amend bills to force NASA to only use "long term proven contractors" and buy the launch vehicles and spacecraft themselves - not lease them. In other words, Boeing and Lockheed/ULA only. Horn (D-OK) lost her re-election and wrote a few bills like that. Pretty much every Dem in Washington/Cali hates SpaceX

Also, Tesla is one of the few companies that fought California against closures and Musk won.

NoCoupForYou says

Also, Tesla is one of the few companies that fought California against closures and Musk won.

In addition to being unbelievably successful revolutionizing space and car travel, Musk is one of the few non-SJW Liberal moron CEO's in California.

Never understood the hatred of the man from so called Libertarians or Conservatives.

socal2 says

Never understood the hatred of the man from so called Libertarians or Conservatives.

The $7.5K tax rebate per car was the trigger.

FuckCCP89 says

The $7.5K tax rebate per car was the trigger.

A nothingburger compared to the fact that commercial airlines pay a fraction of the gas tax that trucks, railroads, passenger and commercial cars, etc. pay.

THAT basically props up everything from Chinese Drop shipping to Amazon to of course Commerical Air Travel and has for decades, that could not be anywhere near current levels if Airlines didn't get massive federal special treatment.

NoCoupForYou says

A nothingburger

Even that is gone now.

As long as you can keep people doing the two-step, twilight zone confusion, flipping from "Official Blue Pill Lies" back to "This is ridiculous and unwarranted tyranny" without an either or commitment, they can keep the fraud afloat. It's the plurality of the confused that they depend on.

I thought it was cute that Justice Alito called Covid a "Stress test of the Constitution". So sweet that he noticed.

FuckCCP89 says

NoCoupForYou says

A nothingburger

Even that is gone now.

All the automakers making EV's got that $7,500 subsidy too, and most if not all are still getting it.

With a ~70% accuracy, sure, any given Wuhan Virus test is only marginally more meaningful and flipping a coin.

And I doubt that it's even that accurate.