Yes, what about the rest of the federal government's spending, of which military spending is not even a third. Social entitlement spending is what the vast bulk of your federal taxes and borrowing go towards, not aircraft carriers.

Has the Cold War really ramped back up to the point where that system needs a replacement?

Let's see; every time a customer buys one of their products, the government gets a cut for sales tax. Before that customer could buy it, the government got a cut for personal income tax. The US based portion of the income will pay US corporate taxes and a lot other national governments will get their local corporate share. When whatever portion of the profits get paid out to shareholders, each shareholder will pay income tax. Just how much more tax do you want?

A gun that shoots a weighted net or even just secret service guys with bolas could completely mess up any hobby grade quad copter and not damage any nearby buildings.

I thought that was only a pilot; "show" sort of implies a serial show.

Is their lab at the bottom of death valley or are they using a pressure cooker?
Every time C vs F comes up, the C fans invariably point to C being vastly superior mainly because 100 C is water's boiling point.

Look, a poll for "best" gets too many people riled up. Let's vote on worst show. I nominate "Space Above and Beyond". Or Babylon 5 Crusade.

Reasonable level of Federal debt. Hah! Yes, flying unicorns are much more likely.

Ah, see, he didn't say where there was unchecked industry. Ever see or visit industrial cities in China? Their EPA equivalent exists to take bribes for its management, not to stop anything.

Software runs on hardware. There's no programming an AI that runs along on its system and suddenly makes said system's capabilities "advance at an exponential rate". As for your own example; you've watched too many Stargate re-runs. There's no ascending with your current brain design.

You're assuming waaaaay too much knowledge on the part of the perps here. It's almost certainly a case of a hotel manager thinking this is just the same as not allowing patrons to bring their own beer to a conference but requiring them to buy from the hotel bar. There's no active malice, just ignorance. Good that they got slapped down and straightened out but assigning active evil intent isn't warranted.

Politicians of a given party vote with that party VERY high percentages of the time. It really doesn't matter what politican A says about some issue, it matters what the party's stance is. Voting your preference on party stance and ignoring the candidate's position of the moment makes more sense because you're much more likely to get what you voted for.

Low voter turnout is NOT in and of itself a problem. Only people who care enough to inform themselves and are concerned should vote.
Low voter turnout means people who don't give a hoot and have no idea have not participated. This is a good thing. The real problem is: How to turn them into people who give a hoot and have informed ideas of the issues.
Furthermore, whether they've informed themselves they way the way you do or are concerned about what you're concerned about is a feature of democracy, not a problem.

Isn't "genocide" based on a genome? I think what you mean is "religiocide".

Because the HOA will have a vague rule along the lines of "nothing unsightly will be stored in any home's yard". This covers anything the current board members dislike and allows them to lord it over the other homeowners. HOAs are the modern equivalent of brown shirts.