I just started thinking about it. Why is space exploration even that necessary? They’re spending so much money on it when we have so much problems in our own planet…

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    … making our energy system even more reliable on hostile and autocratic nations …

    thanks to the freedom of information act, the state department released an epstein files like trove of documents admitting that they made up a bunch of propaganda about several nations; including china; decades ago to make the world believe this.

    also: the epsteins have engineered it so that doing this through some gradual shift will never happen.

    the climate change will fuck over this this world because of people like you who refuse to learn what’s already been common knowledge outside the western world since the 1990’s.

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      Wait? You’re saying that China using its trade power to pressure/coerce Norway, Sweden and Latvia independently and on separate occasions within the past decade is propaganda from the 70’s? The people making that propaganda must have been prescient!

      Or is it the fact they’re an autocratic dictatorship that’s helping fund russias war against Ukraine you’re saying is propaganda?

      Either way, I have a really hard time seeing why anyone would argue that it’s a bad idea to be self-sufficient in critical materials and infrastructure. We’re seeing the consequences of addiction to Russian oil and gas today (and the past 4-5 years). It should be fairly obvious that it’s a bad idea to go out of our way to make our critical infrastructure reliant on the country harassing half of South-East Asia, while actively threatening/preparing for an invasion of Taiwan.

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        no prescience needed; the american gov’t has literally been doing that since the 1920’s. lol

        you would know this already if you spend your time reading these public domain file releases instead of uncritically ingesting propaganda.

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          What the US government is doing has exactly nothing to do with this though, and does exactly nothing to refute my point.

          What’s relevant (since you’re advocating that we buy critical infrastructure from China) is what China is doing. It’s very well documented that they use their power to pressure countries when they can. Therefore, it’s a bad idea to make our critical infrastructure reliant on them. It’s much smarter to be self sufficient in building and maintaining our critical infrastructure (self-sufficiency can include working with allies/partners you have good reason to trust in the long term).

          PS. I added quite a bit to my previous comment just before you responded, sorry about that.