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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

South African Illegal Immigrant Elon Musk BUYING a Government Position in Trump's Cabinet is PROOF that the Swamp has FINALLY been Drained!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

This is just what an oligarchy looks like. It was always been this way but the modern flavour is hell of a lot more brazen.

Beatings will continue...

Cope plebs

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

“I blame the democrats for this”

-half of lemmy right now

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

We’ll see. I doubt many more people will be buying a brand new Tesla as long as he heads the company. Xitter is still deep in debt and has competition from DJT himself. I can see Truth Social maybe buying out X as part of some quid pro quo. SpaceX will likely be the only big winner here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

You’re not being creative enough ;-) All Fed vehicle fleets will have to be Tesla within a short timeframe. And regulations limiting the rollout of self-driving vehicles in any way will be gutted. Also massive tariffs will apply to all imported EVs. Rural broadband contracts will all go to Starlink. Truth Social may or may not get merged with X, but regulations and regulators in that space will be gutted. All Fed infrastructure projects will all of a sudden require the Boring Company for some reason. A.I. regulations will always come out in Elon’s favour. FDA will be gutted and Neuralink will get fast tracked. NASA will be severely neutered and SpaceX will step in to fill the void where ever possible. NASA will be gradually reduced to a consultation / supporting role until it's no longer required. Missions will stear away from pure research and towards those with a clear profit motive like mining, space tourism and comms. Fun times ahead!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Tesla is going to continue to carve out an international market even if their perception in the US is irreparably tainted, StarLink has almost no competition and several years of a headstart on the competition, and "big winner" doesn't say the half of it when you consider the billions of dollars in govt. contracts Trump is going to give them.

Remember Space Force? Yeah, that's going to be outsourced.

Nobody won today more than Musk.