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Re:Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to ... by jackmott42 on Friday July 17, 2026 @04:00PM (#48951671)
> It will soon restore the heavy launch capability

Maybe!

>but in an affordable

Maaybe!

>and sustainable

Maaaaaaybe. Gotta start gigantic scale methane production from solar or whatever first.

We sometimes get in the habit of thinking Elon, who is a Nazi, accomplishes everything he sets out to do, since he was so incredibly effective at getting EVs going and getting the Falcon 9 going. But he has plenty of misses too, like ruining the foundations of democracy, being over 12 years late and counting with self driving cars, hyperloop, the cybertruck, etc.

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Re:Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to ... by WalterBright on Friday July 17, 2026 @05:02PM (#48952276)
> Elon, who is a Nazi

Not much point to read any further.

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Re:Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to ... by techbrovanguard on Friday July 17, 2026 @07:02PM (#48953149)
way to out yourself, my dude
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Re:Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to ... by mmooss on Friday July 17, 2026 @11:44PM (#48955015)
Doesn't Musk want people to think of him that way? He explicitly advocates for white nationalism and did the Nazi salutes on a very big stage (he's smart enough to know what it would look like).
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Re:Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to ... by zugi on Saturday July 18, 2026 @02:37PM (#48960860)
Indeed, Hacker News is going the way of Reddit, dominated by the unknowledgable dealing only in tropes, memes, and stereotypes.
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