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You are being too critical.
SpaceX is demonstrably successful, hence the NASA director has gone out of their way to say "we work with SpaceX, not Elon Musk." I've had good in-person impressions with Tesla solar. Even the Boring company seems efficient, and Tesla has some virtues mixed with the hype, especially in reference to the conservative ICE auto industry.
It's cultish to say Musk is responsible for all this, but he was their owner.
...People are complex. They deteriorate. I think we can accept that Musk helped start some successful/interesting companies while saying some extremely idiotic, and dangerous, things.
No, SpaceX is objectively a failure
It was paid 3 Billion to bring us to Mars by now and by now where are we? If I'm extremely gracious, I'd say we're at 1% of that. At the rate they're going they can barely launch rockets that don't explode, and they still do stupid and dumb stuff and them brag about the minor things that went well while cheering the explosions.
Compare SpaceX to the fucking Apolo program that had to figure out everything from scratch, to do every calculation with a ruler, no good manufacturing techniques and see what they got in a decade. What did SpaceX do in this last decade?
He promised he'd make space travel 10-100 times cheaper and so far he sold it for more expensive after receiving grant after grant.
The guy is a fucking scammer. SpaceX arguably has some good engineers, but that's it. Wake me up when they manage to get a rocket in high earth orbit reliably
My conspiracy is that Musk thinks he'll get to Mars more likely if he aligns with the Republicans, and he acts so super stupid on purpose to get along with them.
... and it has landed him a top position in government so far
the comments about slashing social security are definitely unhinged IMHO (so i'm definitely not supporting that) but i'm european and we have more appreciation for social safety nets i would say. america is more individualist, so maybe that's just "america being america".
Many (American) folks of mine, even more conservative ones, tend to tune out familiar news sources because they're so bad. Others are really glued to Facebook or whatever their feed of choice is.
TBH I think America (on average) just lives in a stronger information dystopia than Europe. People here don't connect social security cuts to them, or even know about Trump's/Musk's statements on it.
Morale of the story... please ban Facebook, X, really most engagement-driven social media as fast as you can. Or risk turning into... us.
Shh, this is the Internet, we don't do nuance here.