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How SpaceX became the MyPillow of government contractors
I blame NASA.
For instance, in 2005, the company alleged that Boeing and Lockheed Martin had engaged in anticompetitive behavior meant to keep SpaceX from letting its Falcon 9 compete in government contracts. Culture war issues are meant to motivate a largely apathetic voter base that doesn’t especially give a shit about government appropriations. Not everything Musk says is necessarily calculated or politically beneficial — his partisan allegiances have also extended to having friendly conversations with mask-off white nationalists and reposting theories that women are incapable of thought.
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