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Elon Musk confirms talks to merge Tesla and SpaceX (www.bbc.com)
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[–] 84 points 4 days ago (5 children)

The main product of SpaceX is corruption, they also have a side-business in rocketry.

Tesla is a publicity stunt company that occasionally sells cars. It seems natural to merge the two.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago

    See this is exactly why it was such a bitch to get the legal rights to use that name in the branding. Teslas family did not want to be associated with this shit and knew goddamn well that people who would market that name would use be exactly like this.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    The main product of SpaceX is corruption, they also have a side-business in rocketry.

    How so? I'm genuinely curious, don't know much about it, also not US-American

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  • [–] 46 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Musk used his informal position in Trump's admin to both cut funding to NASA and to direct contracts to SpaceX, and to squash federal investigations into his companies including SpaceX.

    Trump authored policy that was favorable to SpaceX and he and his family heavily invested in SpaceX right before announcing the policy.

    https://www.epi.org/blog/corruption-in-plain-sight-how-elon-musk-has-benefited-from-the-first-100-days-of-the-trump-administration/

    https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/investing/trump-5-million-dollars-spacex-bonds

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/25/doge-musk-spacex-starlink-contracts

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    Also look up how spacex was awarded the HLS contract for Artemis. It’s pure corruption and fraud (facilitated by Kathy Lueders), and helps explain why they’ve failed to deliver what NASA bought.

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