• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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@lemmy.world
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    NPR gets 4% of its funding from the federal government which is surely a lot smaller of a percentage than Musk

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

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

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        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

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    He’s got the keys to the Treasury. It might be too late 😭