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[–] 87 points 2 weeks 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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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks 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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  • [–] 68 points 3 weeks ago

    He just wants to keep rolling the dice on his poor decisions until it pays off. I guess absorbing Tesla into the one "successful" IPO will hide the losses and leave the investors holding the bag.

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  • [–] 64 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Fuck. He's doing the hand thing. That's bad for everyone.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    All will become X. Like a butthole.

    A butthole full of shit.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    What happens when he runs out if companies to merge and the whole house of cards comes down?

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  • [–] 56 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    He buys someone else’s good idea, promotes it as his idea, sues to say it’s his idea, the media buys that it’s his idea and touts him as a genius again, and he goes public with that company and merges them all once again

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  • [–] 52 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Let me guess, a merger helps Musk hit profitability targets that adds another few hundred billion to his total compensation, while increasing his control?

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  • [–] 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I believe American taxpayers should prepare to bail out the resulting company. Soon. With mountains of money.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    I can't wait to see what Elon can do for Tesla with the extra budget from rolling it into SpaceX.

    Imagine how many amazing new promises and forecasts can be made and broken.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago*

    Ultimately you'll be able to summon your car anywhere … your car can get to you. I think that within two years, you'll be able to summon your car from across the country. It will meet you wherever your phone is … and it will just automatically charge itself along the entire journey."

    He said that shit in January 2016 😄

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    SpaceX has been largely successful, despite Musk, because of Gwynne Shotwell. So Musk shoved X (which he led directly and was falling) into xAI (which was basically failing because it's bad AI) and then shoved that into SpaceX.

    That didn't fail, but Tesla (which Musk leads directly) is now failing, too. So hey, let's do what worked before.

    Honestly, I'm surprised he hasn't dumped The Boring Company on her yet.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    Once read that SpaceX was so successful because they had specific strategies to distract Musk and keep his hands of the real operational stuff.

    If he merges everything, it makes me wonder if he wants to get more involved and ruin the company completely.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'm assuming the larger bottle next to him is the ketamine, what's in the smaller one?

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  • [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

    I predicted this when they had all their cars flying and shit. Its an advertisment for spacex while distracting from the car that theyre half a decade late to releasing.

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  • [+] -11 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

    Building supercars is always more time consuming than anticipated. The Bugatti Veyron was unveiled in 1999 but it was repeatedly delayed for 6 years until they started actual production in 2005.

    Musk is still an asshat, but the the timeline for the new roadster is not weird or sketchy (yet...)

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  • [–] 37 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    The roadster was unveiled in 2017, and was supposed to come out in 2020.

    It's been almost 10 years since the announcement, and almost 7 years since it was supposed to be out on the streets.

    Since then it was postponed, at least twice, to 2023 and then 2024.

    Not to mention that what they presented last week is in no way shape or form, anything like was it was supposed to be in 2020. And it's basically a gimmick.

    It's EXTREMELY sketchy.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Fair enough, I only had the "half decade" delay mentioned in the comment I replied to as reference, which in itself wouldn't be cause for concern.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    They could have come out with the original concept a long time ago. But that was never the plan. The whole thing was never anything but a stunt to grab attention. The flying roadster was certainly effective in that, but nobody is ever going to sit in one of those cars while the tanks are pressurised.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    He has total control of SpaceX - he made it so "investors" have no ability to override any of his decisions.

    He doesn't have full control over Tesla, because he's not a majority shareholder, and the board can vote him out.

    He wants SpaceX to buy Tesla so he can have 100% control over all of it. I would place a pretty substantial bet that he buys Tesla with the same "non-voting" SpaceX shares that he sold to retail investors during the IPO.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    I mean, he self funded it with something like 180 million dollars. He didnt have to take huge amounts of investors money before that 180 million was worth a shit ton more, and he had launch contracts with NASA to generate income.

    So he made it, by building a successful company with his own money and then getting investors to take a small % of his ownership and they were seemingly happy to do it

    Edit: really, this is every founders dream. Bringing in investors has so many strings attached and he was able to build something where he could significantly limit that. If you can bootstrap your business you'll be better off in the long run.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Musks old tricks aren’t working like they used to and the walls are closing in on him for Tesla.

    The latest Roadster demo is a sign that he’s relying more and more on theatrics to sell cars. Ten years ago you could kind of buy that he would have full autonomous driving at some point. Other car companies are far more advanced than him and the Chinese’s are eating his lunch on electric vehicles and beating him in every market but the US.

    He pivoted Tesla to robotics and self driving taxis but other companies are ahead of him there as well and he knows it.

    He doesn’t have any tech to set Tesla apart and justify its grossly overpriced stock.

    He wants to roll it under Space X to ride the only two advantages he has left Starlink and Rockets.

    He knows the US government under any administration won’t let either of those two go belly up and wants to link them with his other failed or failing companies.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago

    Probably also wants to merge it with Tesla to somehow trial space shuttle tech. I'm not sure how it relates but I think I read that somewhere before and it had real examples of how Tesla helped space x

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (5 children)

    The outlook of Tesla isn't great, so it is a perfect fit for SpaceX+xAI. All the brand new models are burning trash heaps, there are two cash cow models increasingly aging, even with the face lifts. It makes sense to consolidate everything into one big grift conglomerate.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Grok uses Claude, isn't even using it's own model. They gave up on that, because any competent staff they hire, leaves. Elon will go into history as the greatest incinerator of economic structure ever. The Epstein-class will forever regret letting him join. And Epstein knew...how crazy is that?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    I had not heard of that. I think to stay correct, that needs some qualification. They have given up to compete with Claude on coding, so for agentic stuff the "Grok Bot" is using also Claude Opus 5.5. Grok still is an option too.

    But yeah, it does sound like they are slowly giving up to compete at the very frontier.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    Tesla and/or SpaceX/Grox are probably looking like Wile e. Coyote four strides past the cliff edge. Keep slamming companies together to hide the loss to earnings and make the stock value go up. Got to keep the trillionaire status and make sure he can leave someone else holding the bag.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    If they are all one company how will he buy his own vehicles with his other company to inflate numbers?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Is he trying to make it easier to seize them in the future? Everything except maybe for Tesla, which he is running into the ground by owning it, are international security threats.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Musk's Starlink has been regularly fucking over Ukraine for years now. The EU's finally had enough and is planning their own system.

    And, ultimately, some third-rate power without an advanced space program is just going to decide to hurl a bunch frag grenades into space triggering a Kessler cascade and then we'll all be back to an even playing field.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    Shell game is running out of moves

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    How can you be in talks to merge with yourself?

    (I’m referring to Elon not the company. I know they have their own president and board)

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago

    He lives only because you allow it

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    He should focus on merging human decency into his personality.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Heil Heil the space Nazi!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Oh, because they're worthless on their own? Noooo, that can't be

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Is this saying Musk talks to himself? It fits, I guess.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    I'm assuming doing so will make it more difficult to Nationalize when the time eventually comes.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Ooooh this should be a fun implosion.

    Let me put this in spacex talk…

    Image a white drawf star….

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