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SpaceX would practically belong to the Pentagon.

Very true and yet completely irrelevant.

So you'd be fine with labeling Tesla a state-affiliated organization? I suppose that's at least consistent, though I don't see the utility of a label that applies so broadly.

And that strident libertarian Peter Thiel is the chairperson of a company that makes its money off government contracts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies

Must be nice to be a libertarian—lot of fat government subsidies seem to come their way.