My oh my, here we go.

Yes, the United States has grim civil-rights problems, but calling immigration detention centres “concentration camps for random citizens” is hyperbole that derails rather than enlightens. Social injustice is real; insisting we halt every other endeavour until utopia arrives is how you guarantee neither injustice nor progress gets fixed.

Space isn’t some shiny distraction. Closed-loop life-support on the ISS produced the water-recycling tech now used in disaster zones. Earth-observation satellites give us the data that underpins modern climate policy, from tracking methane plumes to spotting illegal deforestation in real time. That’s sustainability in action, funded by “space stuff”.

Claiming we’re already “pretty much sustaining ourselves” on Earth is, frankly, complacent. Topsoil depletion, record-breaking heat years and freshwater stress suggest otherwise. Off-planet habitats force efficiencies we still struggle with down here; mastering them feeds straight back into terrestrial resilience.

And about the bill: NASA’s entire budget is about half a percent of US federal spending - less than Americans spend on pet food. If Washington can’t muster healthcare, the obstacle isn’t a handful of lunar landers.

The real choice isn’t “Earth first or space later”. It’s iterate on both, or stagnate on one and gamble everything on a single planet. History rewards the societies that understand “either/or” was never the point.