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This is a meme. Getting into Canada or literally any European country the legal way has more red tape than the US. The reason it takes longer with the US is because everyone and their mother wants to come here, so the system is backed up.
Its kind of complicated. There is a whole cottage industry of "immigration lawyers" in all sorts of different countries that feed off the fact that so many people want to come to America. They make the process a LOT more expensive and time consuming than I think it was intended to be. And it is quite hard to do it without them, given that they have good relations with the embassies and the consulates. At least that's what they want you to think. When you add onto that the cost of the naturalization process in general it can be VERY difficult to get in. The legal immigration system kind of works as a natural filter for riffraff in that regard because it selects for people who are either supremely patient or wealthy.
Despite the state of modern women, I would still wager that it is easier to get into America via marriage than any other legal means.
 
That used to be NASA's job. They were far more competent and lost way less spacecraft than Space X did
NASA used to be competent... From the 1950s until the early 1980s But then it turned in to a DEI jobs program. They couldn't keep the STS from exploding let alone advance past it. We where forced to hire the Russians for rides to the ISS. Humiliating.

Also, if Elon had his way, we'd be swimming in Indians.
Well good thing he doesn't have his way, or else the USA would be swimming in your fellow countrymen.

Falcon 9 has a 99% success rate on their hundreds of contract missions. Falcon Heavy is at 100% last I checked on contract missions.
SpaceX blows shit up pushing the envelope with experimental stuff trying to reach reusable self landing spacecraft. They aren't losing customer cargo doing it. Yet people think those explosions are the normal when in reality the Falcon's are in the background grinding out boring contract missions day in and day out with no coverage.

Here is a question: How many HUMANS has SpaceX lost compared to NASA? I'll give NASA a pass for the early "space race" since they where starting from zero and needed to get there at all costs to beat the USSR. So lets just talk about the 1980s STS program.
How many people has NASA's STS killed compared to all of SpaceX?

SpaceX blows shit up constantly until they master it, THEN they put humans on it. It seems to be a much better system compared to the massive NASA bureaucracy that chokes out any innovation that just ends in failure anyways.

You said his companies are failures. They are not.
Is Elon a sperg? Yes. Should he chill the fuck out? Yes.
But his companies are not failures. It's clear you can't separate one thing from the other. You are the type of person who would have called for the cancellation of the Explorer and Apollo programs because the program leads where all ex-nazi's.
 
Its kind of complicated. There is a whole cottage industry of "immigration lawyers" in all sorts of different countries that feed off the fact that so many people want to come to America. They make the process a LOT more expensive and time consuming than I think it was intended to be. And it is quite hard to do it without them, given that they have good relations with the embassies and the consulates. At least that's what they want you to think. When you add onto that the cost of the naturalization process in general it can be VERY difficult to get in. The legal immigration system kind of works as a natural filter for riffraff in that regard because it selects for people who are either supremely patient or wealthy.
Despite the state of modern women, I would still wager that it is easier to get into America via marriage than any other legal means.
You're not wrong but I know guys who get green cards, serve in the military honorably, and they are in like Flynn. There are easy ways to do it. The problem is if you're a lazy asshole with zero economic value.
 
That used to be NASA's job. They were far more competent and lost way less spacecraft than Space X did
Honestly, Elon is doing you a favour with SpaceX. When it comes to new and experimental technologies, obviously things are going to blow up at first. The fact that its a private corporation who's experimental rockets are blowing up allows the federal government to save face. They don't have to be the face of exploding rockets.
 
This naivety is adorable.
We already have rovers there. There are already planned unmanned launches and a starship capable of getting there next year during the next transfer window. Even if we miss that there is another one every 18 months. I think its likely we actually get a manned ship there within a decade or so but if you extend this out to hundreds of years youd have to be retarded to think it wont happen eventually.
 
I thought Gunther was a globalist libshit. Did he get redpilled or does he think that illegals are a Russian tool to weaken NATO or some schizo shit like that.
Gunther is almost impossible to pin down, he's most like at 1996 neocon, sort of. He's just fun as hell to keep track of, but if you try to look at him through some political lens you sort of miss the point of him.

NASA used to be competent.
Turns out those fuckign krauts were really good at rockets, lol.
 
You're not wrong but I know guys who get green cards, serve in the military honorably, and they are in like Flynn. There are easy ways to do it. The problem is if you're a lazy asshole with zero economic value.
I must admit the Roman route to citizenship (service) does seem like the most honorable and rewarding way to come in. I am not sure if flat feet are a disqualifying factor in this day and age but if I had to do it, I would do it like that myself.
 
We already have rovers there. There are already planned unmanned launches and a starship capable of getting there next year during the next transfer window. Even if we miss that there is another one every 18 months. I think its likely we actually get a manned ship there within a decade or so but if you extend this out to hundreds of years youd have to be retarded to think it wont happen eventually.
You are very gullible lol. Call me when a man walks on the moon and comes back home alive.
 
You're not wrong but I know guys who get green cards, serve in the military honorably, and they are in like Flynn. There are easy ways to do it. The problem is if you're a lazy asshole with zero economic value.
I am the guy that wants every single illegal gone, I want birthright citizenship overturned and I think the entire visa system should be scrapped. I want ZERO immigration to the us for a generation or more. All that said, I think if you serve in the military for a full hitch (4 years active, 4 reserve) you should be considered a full citizen and you can stay. (You can't come to my house and fuck my sister though)
 
I am the guy that wants every single illegal gone, I want birthright citizenship overturned and I think the entire visa system should be scrapped. I want ZERO immigration to the us for a generation or more. All that said, I think if you serve in the military for a full hitch (4 years active, 4 reserve) you should be considered a full citizen and you can stay. (You can't come to my house and fuck my sister though)
Nothing says "I love this country" like getting some skin in the game.
 
That used to be NASA's job. They were far more competent and lost way less spacecraft than Space X did
And then they started hiring women, niggers and troons and it all went to shit.
SpaceX has lifted more mass into orbit at lower cost in 10-15 years than NASA did in 50 years, and SpaceX comes with the added bonus of not having killed a whole bunch of people to do it.
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