When bazinga brains talk about the uplifting news of privatized space tourism, the unspoken part is that it almost always comes from subsidies that were matched by cuts to NASA. That fucking Tesla commercial in space? Almost dollar for dollar, NASA's budget was cut by the same amount that went into subsidizing that, and multiple actual scientific inquiry missions were scrapped for it, including a comet interception and a solar probe.
Because the supposed coolest thing America has ever done keeps getting budget cuts so we can crank out more cops, prisons, soldiers and drones.
When bazinga brains talk about the uplifting news of privatized space tourism, the unspoken part is that it almost always comes from subsidies that were matched by cuts to NASA. That fucking Tesla commercial in space? Almost dollar for dollar, NASA's budget was cut by the same amount that went into subsidizing that, and multiple actual scientific inquiry missions were scrapped for it, including a comet interception and a solar probe.
Thanks I hate it