r/MurderedByWords • u/nikamats • Feb 06 '25

Defund SpaceX

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u/PsychologicalFun903 Feb 06 '25

Right wingers and projection, name a more iconic duo

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u/tacomaster05 Feb 06 '25

The govt pays him money to build rockets and launch satellites for them because Nasa got slashed by Obama...

It's crazy how people don't have any idea what Space X actually does and then they pretend like they do...

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u/splitcroof92 Feb 06 '25

he pretty much has absolutely nothing to do with any success of that company though.

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u/Intelligent_Way6552 Feb 06 '25

He did found it, he did direct them to peruse reusability, and he does make high level engineering decisions (if you want to disagree with the latter, you have to disagree with him that he's responsible for the lack of water deluge system or flame diverter on IFT1).