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Re:SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit by trothamel on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:37PM (#23366475)
It explicitly is.
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Re:SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit by shrimp_emoji on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:47PM (#23366520)
Ironic since the Culture is anti-capitalist. xD
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Re:SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit by antepodius on Sunday May 31, 2020 @12:44AM (#23367246)
So is spacex. It's a dictatorship.
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Re:SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit by ralusek on Sunday May 31, 2020 @03:09AM (#23367815)
All the people forced to buy contracts with them. All the people forced to work with them. Pure. Tyranny.
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Re:SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit by antepodius on Saturday June 06, 2020 @02:57AM (#23437360)
No, just internally, where king elon makes decrees from high and you follow or are exiled from the nation of spacex.

It's a private corporation: it's a mini-dictatorship. Basically everything functional in the world is built by one. Could you imagine the department of transportation making a car?

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Re:SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit by yellowapple on Sunday May 31, 2020 @06:34AM (#23368592)
"By the way, I am actually a socialist."

-- Elon Musk

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Re:SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit by shrimp_emoji on Sunday May 31, 2020 @12:23PM (#23370567)
Oh word https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1008013111058526209

Ok, he can use Culture names without irony. uwu

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Re:SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit by plerpin on Sunday May 31, 2020 @03:59PM (#23372212)
I wouldn't take him at his word. Musk says a lot of shit in his tweets.
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