• @[email protected]
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    2 days ago

    This morning I was thinking that, given the way things are going - with Tesla sales falling hard in Europe and Musk positioning himself for his companies to completelly live of the US Government’s tit - Tesla cars are going to be America’s very own Lada: only existing because the state pays for it and you see them nowhere else.

  • @makyo
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    612 days ago

    NPR gets 4% of its funding from the federal government which is surely a lot smaller of a percentage than Musk

  • kn0wmad1c
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    552 days ago

    NPR is public funded. Is this a real tweet? Is he that stupid?

    • MeatPilot
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      432 days ago

      Short answer, yes he is.

    • @blazeknave
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      42 days ago

      Not a joke- isn’t is augmented by “listeners like you” but “public” radio in that it’s tax payer funded?

      • kn0wmad1c
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        52 days ago

        It’s hard to pin down an exact number from the various sources I could find, but consensus puts the number anywhere between 4% and 12% of NPR’s funding comes from federal (direct and indirect) sources.

        The vast majority of their funding comes from private donations

  • @[email protected]
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    362 days ago

    I’d love to live in the Republican alternate reality where NPR actually gets a usable amount of money from the federal government

    • @toynbee
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      62 days ago

      Why isn’t yours?

      Oh wait.