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anderber on April 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-af...

By this logic there would so many companies that are "federally funded" that the label itself would become irrelevant.

floatrock on April 12, 2023 [–]

Including SpaceX. Starlink is a cute and a useful consumer product, but most of their balance sheet is defense money or giving rides to nasa.

vicktour on April 12, 2023 | [–]

You could chuck most of Musk's portfolio into that category TBH. What ever company does that dumb tunnel idea and Tesla are the two additional companies that come to mind.

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