Pennomi

How about running scientific payloads and testing new EVA suits? The Polaris Dawn missions are absolutely not joyrides like we’ve seen other billionaires do.

No one, but he did pay Musk to go to space aboard Crew Dragon, and to do a spacewalk in a SpaceX EVA suit.

I mean, the dude loves space so much he paid out of pocket to go there. He’s a real pilot and real astronaut. Not a bad sign at all.

On the other hand we should always be wary of putting the rich in charge of things.

I’m not happy about it either. It’s an abuse of power, no matter whose side the guy is on. This just further degrades the office of the president into a self-serving free-for-all.

$40k a year sounds super reasonable.

Practicality beats purity, sadly.

Another thing it means is that if we had ranked choice voting, those 3rd party votes would be the deciding factor in who won the presidency.

Bad people can do good things sometimes, and you should never interrupt or shame them for doing it. Many people on the internet forget that.

I wish I had your optimism

Well yeah, if Trump fills the military with loyalists, he can order a coup to avoid losing power.

I totally agree with you. People are just plain stupid, and right wing politicians are really good at grifting idiots.

It’s on an entirely different level today. Propaganda has always been useful for swaying public opinion, but we live in a world where an entire generation of the world’s most brilliant minds have been set to the task of optimizing ad revenue. And they certainly succeeded.

Unfortunately it turns out that “increasing engagement” virtually requires pigeonholing people into an ever-increasingly-radical echo chamber.

Yes, but to be charitable to the people out there, they are specifically targeted by mega corporations to hole them up into a conservative-affirming digital content feed.

They are victims just as much as they are stupid.

We can still try to obstruct via filibuster and other mechanisms. (Republicans have already shown us how to do it effectively.) But certainly no progress can be made for the next four years.

Only one candidate said they want to be a dictator if elected, and (spoiler alert) it wasn’t Kamala.

It’s not an exemption for one person if you say that a felony related to undermining an election stops you from being able to vote. I think that’s fair enough.

There’s no way they will sentence a sitting president.

The hard part is that “direct” is subjective and up to interpretation of the court.

You are 100% correct! Honestly my response wasn’t for him, per se. It was for Americans who might be duped by reading his comment.

And yet, despite your act of protest, human society continues - because you are not the center of the universe. The trolley problem is not hypothetical this election. Will you support less death or more death?