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Brian Fantana

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  1. The reusable, landable boosters were built on top of original NASA designs that were never built because they were deemed too costly at the time. NASA put people on the moon, multiple times, almost 60 years ago. NASA has successfully landed and operated like a dozen different rovers or other vehicles on fucking Mars, starting in the 1970s. NASA operated a fully reusable and highly successful (aside from a pair of spectacular and deadly failures) space plane for 30 years, starting in the early 1980s. There is a much longer list than this I'm not going to bother going into, I think you get the point. SpaceX has nothing, and I mean NOTHING on NASA. This is why it is such a complete fucking travesty that it has basically been allowed to absorb a great deal of NASA, aside from special operations like JPL.
  2. The idea that nationalizing SpaceX is some kind of crazy notion is so funny to me. Like, why do you think he basically immediately walked back the Dragon capsule threat? He knows how the game is played. If he actually seriously tried to follow through with that threat, not only would they instantly invoke the Defense Production Act to nationalize SpaceX and fold it in under NASA, they would also make good on the threat to revoke all of his contracts and subsidies and he would never receive a dime of taxpayer money ever again. Don't kid yourself, Elon may be extremely powerful but he is not as powerful as the US government and it would launch even him into the sun if he dared to seriously threaten US natsec interests.
  3. It would have been much wiser to never allow SpaceX and NASA to become as [somewhat irreversibly] intertwined as they have, where critical aspects of American spaceflight are directly under control of an unhinged drug addict, not to even begin to touch on what an incredibly massive national security problem Starlink is. Alas, here we are.
  4. If anyone that posts here ever earnestly calls me smart I'm hurling myself off the nearest bridge
  5. It's funny because he's accidentally arriving at the correct conclusion by approaching it from the point of view of wanting to suck Trump's dick from the back. SpaceX absolutely should be forcibly (should have been long ago, if we're being honest) nationalized considering it's already largely funded by the US government, regularly (and spectacularly) flaunts its regulations and laws, and considering the political activity of its owner.
  6. Shut up you weird slut
  7. This is a big part of the reason I exclusively play tournaments nowadays. (Unless it's somebody's home cash game that isn't taking a rake, of course)
  8. I honestly am shocked it took this long for them to start fighting
  9. I don't think Rex wants due process to be skipped, he just wants them deported. I think maybe he doesn't understand that ChickenSandwich actually does want due process to be skipped.
  10. Friendly reminder that the Due Process Clause applies to every person within the United States, including non-citizens, whether their presence here is lawful, unlawful, temporary, or permanent. Anyone that continues to push the narrative that these people are not entitled to due process because they are not citizens is lying to you.
  11. That's how our justice system works. Someone has to be punished. It's stupid, but that's how it works.
  12. Instead they just say shit that isn't even true and blame progressives
  13. Yeah, no fucking shit. They didn't commit any crimes and due process must be followed. As I said earlier, if you want to make the argument that their asylum claim is invalid, that's fine, due process still must be followed. If you want to expedite the process, fine, due process still must be followed. I don't understand why so many of you have just suddenly decided that due process doesn't matter at all, considering that every American's rights depend on the government not being able to just do whatever the fuck out wants, the law of the land be damned.
  14. Read my post again
  15. Dems have apparently decided that the way to beat the propaganda is to outflank it by running to the right of it. e: Not on everything, of course, but certainly on things like foreign policy i.e. Iran
  16. Everyone that has ever told someone on this site to go fuck their own face really has it coming, apparently.
  17. It's not punitive in itself, but it becomes so if you, say, deport the family to Trump's personal El Salvadorian prison instead of their home country, but seeing as that won't happen here, your assessment is essentially correct.
  18. You can't just deport people because they might do a crime in the future, that's crazy my man. If you want to say that their asylum claim isn't valid and process them out that way, I'm fine with that, but you can't just precrime people because daddy is a psychopath that did a terrorism. Those kids lives are already ruined anyway.
  19. Hear hear. Well said.
  20. Hey fuck you buddy!!
  21. I wonder how related it is to the number of fish in the pond, so to speak. They have 5 owners that are famous poker players of varying levels of notoriety, and who knows how many other owners/partners/investors that aren't publicly known.
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