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cladopa ◴[] No.45660311[source]
Oh yeah. Replace the stainless steel by carbon fibre, give it to your pals of Boing and instead of being ready in 2030 for 2.3 billion it will be ready in 2050 for 50 billion.

Much better for making your friends rich.

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ActorNightly ◴[] No.45660615[source]
Space X isn't much better. Its still Musks company.
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qwerpy ◴[] No.45661861[source]
So, the company gets things done but the CEO is unpopular with certain crowds. Seems better than Boeing, which is bad at getting things done. At least their CEO is inoffensive, and that’s what is important?
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llbeansandrice ◴[] No.45664410[source]
“Unpopular” is a weird way to frame “is a Nazi”.
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boxed ◴[] No.45665576[source]
I mean.. Werner von Braun wasn't just "sort of a Nazi if you squint real hard", but an ACTUAL Nazi. At some point you need to focus on getting the job done, and not on purity tests and struggle sessions. THAT is why the US once got to the moon, while China starved 40 million of its own people, and the Soviet Union collapsed.
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1. llbeansandrice ◴[] No.45678674[source]
What? The US got to the moon ONLY bc we decided the nazis were more useful and the Soviet Union collapsed bc they didn’t make the same choice?

That’s absurd.

Either way, I’d personally rather today’s Nazis of all flavors to be dead. At the very least they seem a lot dumber than the old ones.