• kn0wmad1c@programming.dev
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    Remember when Las Vegas was set to receive the country’s first high speed rail between there and LA until Elon Musk promised the city commission that he could do it cheaper using the hyperloop? And then the hyperloop became a murder subway until it eventually crumbled beneath his hubris?

    Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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    Whine, whine, whine. It’s not like the US is the only people with a space program. Just go to fucking Russia already, you piece of shit.

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    The reason you’re not ever living on Mars is that it has no magnetosphere. Good fucking luck surviving any length of time with constant ionising radiation slapping the shit out of your DNA. This fact alone should have shut down any discussion of feasibility about colonising Mars.

    Although it does make the three-titted chick from Total Recall way more realistic.

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    Remember, he left Trump back in 2017. I wonder what deal he made with him this time that makes him so dedicated again. It’s kind of hard to impress someone who has everything, so it must be more power.

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        Giving the man who runs every company he touches into the ground a spot on a government efficiency agency is peak conservative governance.

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      Trump said he would create a government position just for him. He would also probably get some easier contracts and less oversight with SpaceX.

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    Take note, the mars thing is propaganda and it has always been. “Space” is a business and a warzone

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      Notice Musk has never even been up in a SpaceX rocket, even for PR purposes like Bezos does. He’s probably too cowardly to do that, let alone go to Mars.

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    Really strong “the only way I’ll lose this election is if there’s massive fraud” vibes here.

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      He should use the money he has now to build a rocket and send himself to Mars. That way he won’t have to worry about US government programs anymore.

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    God, people like him are the fucking worst because they have endless resources but their incompetence just keeps getting in their own way. Regulations are not your problem, it’s your inability to understand complex situations and lack of capacity to come up with solutions. So unless dumbass gets a perfect world, he can’t do shit. We already went to the fucking moon using slide rulers, fuck off with your loser whining.

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    Mars with current technology is completely unfeasible. Musk uses it to get public support for more funding for space x. It’s unsurprising he knows Trump would give him more money so he’s backing trump

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    Didn’t he himself get one high-speed rail initiative derailed so he could pimp his techbro version of a subway for his asshole customers?

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    Ha, this is just him admitting that she’ll win. Just like trump calling Walz the future vice president. Losers are quiet quitting their fascism.

    “We can’t go to Mars now. Sorry guys… I got too divorced” -elmo must