Someone else pointed out that I misread your context. I assumed you were talking about energy prices.

Ah good point. I misread the context.

I'm in San Francisco and my monthly bills have doubled in the past 2 years.

Cult of personalities long predate social media.

The other person was a black woman. For a lot of americans, that is enough to count as 'worse'.

In terms of pushing a bit more each time... yeah, they probably will not call an emergency, but ICE and troops hanging around poling stations and selectively harassing people? That is plausible.. as is siezing ballots and subjecting them to mr pillow style recounts.

Every time they push just a bit more to see what they can get away with. Conservatives and libertarians have been wanting to do away with that pesky democracy and its anti-god communist implications since the evangelical takeover in the reagan years. So yeah... people have been warning for decades, but we keep getting closer.

It has happened under both.

SpaceX already gets massive amounts of tax payer money.

Now the question to ask is which of these poor technologies, that has been treated so unfairly, does Trump and his buddies have money invested in?

Ah, but now it is socially acceptable christian approved violence against god's enemies, so Thompson is fine with it.

Beyond the obvious reason you just mentioned, China has essentially stood on the shoulders of the US & Russia in order to reach their position as a space power. By the time they became serious about space flight, the technology was already very mature. There's something to be said about being the last one to the technology party.

Do you honestly believe this is a fair comparison? Or do I have to list out all of the reasons why it's not?

At this point, they are getting desperate for anything non-AI generated to train AI on.

Apologies don't teach lessons. Cash money does though.