No, no, no, it’s not Elon who’s out of touch. It’s the advertisers who are wrong! Just wait until all of Earth, apparently, hears of how these big mean advertisers killed the wondrous and righteous place named X. There will be outrage!.. so thinks Elon anyway. What a deluded moron.

Well… they used to at least :(

Yep, in 1975. We’ve been a bit of a puppet ever since.

They’re well aware. Famous Australians like Russell Crowe and Phar Lap would back up this claim.

Australians wish! New Zealand tends to get things right.

That and what we generally think of as “Vikings” were actually Danes, which is an insult to Swedes.

The funny thing with tax is you don’t get choose how it’s spent. Tax money is public money that ought to be spent in the public interest, and NASA is a perfectly good example of this. Other good examples are infrastructure, parks, public healthcare and free education. Bad examples of tax expenditure are the ridiculous military complex, massive corporate subsidies and contractors doing poor work that the government should be directly controlling.