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Reminder: Elon Musk, whose Starship just blew up on the test stand (with extra fuel tanks piled beside it), was allowed for THIRTY YEARS to lie about his training in science. He started lying in 1995, got trapped in the lie - and suffered no consequences. But physics itself has consequences. 1/
Reminder: Elon Musk, whose Starship just blew up on the test stand (with extra fuel tanks piled beside it), was allowed for THIRTY YEARS to lie about his training in science. He started lying in 1995, got trapped in the lie - and suffered no consequences. But physics itself has consequences. 1/
— capitolhunters (@capitolhunters.bsky.social) 2025-06-19T06:45:50.038Z
Just listen to the man babble incoherently about how he is shaped by physics and consider: the press allowed him to bullshit like this for 30 YEARS. Of course he got convinced he can just make up his own reality. If anyone died in the Starship explosion tonight, blame the press too. 2/
— capitolhunters (@capitolhunters.bsky.social) 2025-06-19T06:45:50.072Z
I did a 69-Tweet thread on this in 2022, hoping to ward off what was coming: Elon helping to overthrow democracy, using that AstroBoy Genius image. What you saw on that launchpad tonight, that's what he's now doing to US science, to our country - exploding it. 3/
— capitolhunters (@capitolhunters.bsky.social) 2025-06-19T06:45:50.091Z
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Read & understand: NO federal science can happen anymore without approval of Elon's DOGE kiddies, 23-year-old crypto bros as overconfident as he was. Your tax dollars, our science heritage, are run by mini-mes of the man who just blew up a Starship on the ground. 4/
— capitolhunters (@capitolhunters.bsky.social) 2025-06-19T07:09:46.641Z
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(285,749 posts)White privilege and grift.
CanonRay
(15,391 posts)But it's all old stuff. Did that really happen last night?