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Breitbart, other conservative outlets escalate anti-SpaceX campaign

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Re: Breitbart, other conservative outlets escalate anti-SpaceX campaign

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I don't want to go too far off topic, but every time I turn on the news lately I feel like I'm stuck in a dystopian cyberpunk thriller. Funny how we never got the flying cars and jetpacks from our 20th century utopian sci-fi, but the Phillip K Dicks and William Gibsons seem to be right on the money.

Cyberpunk promised us high tech and low life. Good job, we got at least one of these.

Low life is easier to distribute than high tech. The future is already here...

Re: Breitbart, other conservative outlets escalate anti-SpaceX campaign

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Privatization is not really privatization, when we (gov't) still pay for it.

HUH? Privatization is Government Work being run by a Non-Government Identity? The logic is confounding. So all those Military Industry is still paid for by the TAX PAYER?! Makes no logical sense.

When the business takes public money, it is not truly private.

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HUH? Privatization is Government Work being run by a Non-Government Identity? The logic is confounding. So all those Military Industry is still paid for by the TAX PAYER?! Makes no logical sense.

When the business takes public money, it is not truly private.

WAIT? That is 100% contradictory! You are taking NASA's work and making the work competitive contracts, saving Government money. So instead of NASA getting 100% of the jobs they are then taking the best bidder, AKA cheapest price that can get the job done.

So since the Government is paying it must be a Government Agency that runs it? Your talking double talk aka hypocrisy. Privatization is 100% taking work monopolized by the Government and putting them out to a private identity that can do it cheaper through the free market system.

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When the business takes public money, it is not truly private.

WAIT? That is 100% contradictory! You are taking NASA's work and making the work competitive contracts, saving Government money. So instead of NASA getting 100% of the jobs they are then taking the best bidder, AKA cheapest price that can get the job done. So since the Government is paying it must be a Government Agency that runs it? Your talking double talk aka hypocrisy. Privatization is 100% taking work monopolize…

It's not a "free" market system when it's using public funds. Simple as that. I'll keep repeating it, until you take a breath.

I don't know why you are so angry or arrogant, but this is the first semi-lucid response you have given.

Wrong, but semi lucid.

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When the business takes public money, it is not truly private.

WAIT? That is 100% contradictory! You are taking NASA's work and making the work competitive contracts, saving Government money. So instead of NASA getting 100% of the jobs they are then taking the best bidder, AKA cheapest price that can get the job done. So since the Government is paying it must be a Government Agency that runs it? Your talking double talk aka hypocrisy. Privatization is 100% taking work monopolize…

Subsidies are the antithesis of a "free" market, since the government is manipulating the market.

This seems to be what we are arguing about here, and well there's no two sides to this debate. You are wrong.

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