It’s the Congo.

King Leopold was one of history’s greatest monsters. Rubber tree plantations - they’d chop a hand off or worse if you didn’t make quota. (The Heart of Darkness, later retold as Apocalypse Now, later retold as Spec Ops: the Line.)

The region has been ravaged for the past two centuries. Remember Kony 2012? Those starving children could have been soldiers.

Aviation has just got its dick stuck too hard in the imperial can. Having to teach material where g=32 makes me want to eat glass.

The ISS is also a symbol I think. The “International” Space Station. Think about how Soviet and American’s worked together on Skylab, and how that inspired the creation of what is truly a marvel and testament to humanity. Space has a been a place for the future and hope - it doesn’t matter who you are or where you came from, what matters is the spirit of exploration and desire to better understand the universe.

Elon wants his name on a Mars mission above everything else. He wants history to talk about how he got us there, and imagines a future where planetary exploration allows his progeny to be lords of entire planets. Safety doesn’t matter, and we’ll probably end up with the first Americans to die in space in the next few years. (Will the US space program become as secret as the Soviet era one?)

Btw there have been massive cuts to many NASA programs across the board (especially in outreach/education lol). Artemis/Moon to Mars will probably die or be significantly changed because it’s “DEI.”

Bridenstone was Trump’s first appointment to the office, and was focused on giving private companies access to space - this is why this Starliner debacle happened in the first place.

NASA is dying because the oligarchs see space as a resource to be exploited and do not understand the purpose of scientific exploration, beyond what they can funnel into their own wallets.

I mean, can’t we go back to the way that the Dems refused to see that Hillary was not popular, and how party leaders actively intervened to make sure that no one resembling an actual Dem (Bernie) got the nomination?

I think that’s really where the writing was on the wall - sabotage a popular candidate with the kind of populist support that we saw launch Trump into office, to platform someone who was probably one of the most hated women in America?

I guess France is the same country where “Lemon Incest” debuted at #2.

Despite being flagged to the French authorities by the FBI in 2004 for viewing child abuse imagery on the dark web, for which he was convicted and given a four-year suspended prison sentence in France in 2005, he was never prevented from working with children and continued to gain prestigious jobs in hospitals across the country.

Does France not have registries? What the fuck?

So beyond fighting about what happened in 2024… What are you going to do about it?

Are you calling your senators? Representatives? Federal level? State level? Governor?

Even if you live in a red state, you can be annoying. Leave voicemails. Ask for call backs. Write letters. Blue state - better. Cmon, they’re spineless. Shout louder than everyone else.

Then look for local issues. Local manifestations of fascism that are small enough for you to do something about. Show up to city council and school board (there have been lots of efforts to overtake these smaller bodies too.) Community organizing for Palestine could also be community organizing for addressing attacks on the homeless, women’s autonomy, etc.

Wouldn’t that mean that he was likely sent CSAM - and possibly didn’t report it?

That would indicate that there would be no plausible deniability about the trading rings being run by the mods and users.

Reddit would not have removed r/jailbait if it hadn’t made CNN. R/picsofdeadkids was up for long after that.

Bill Gates has also been riding an unearned “genius” appellation for decades. He didn’t make DOS. (His charitable work on vaccination is also questionable - iirc there were concerns over intellectual property rights)

The tide is turning against billionaires, and he’s just recognizing that Musk is making them all look bad.

Returning the US to the tribes seems like a good idea all around. The Navajo did a damn good job taking care of their people with COVID vaccinations. Let the Seminole take back Florida.

It used to have some good stuff.

Like it was still conservative aligned, but the jokes were more self directed and not culture wars nonsense. It’s when it was sold in 2018 that it really changed.