"America will never give up the moon again.🀑"

What an embarrassing statement.πŸ€¦πŸΏβ€β™‚οΈ

What a scathing indictment of the childishness and futility of an anti-science nation being in a space race.

What does "give up the moon" even mean?

Other countries sending scientists while we angrily hug a moon flag.

Can we get back to not being such a weirdo country soon please?

I can't keep getting cooked in the group chat like this.

πŸ‘©πŸ½πŸ‘¨πŸΌπŸ§”πŸΏβ€β™‚οΈ"Mekka, are you getting out of the swimming pool soon? You've been in there for 4 hours. You're getting all pruney, and we're all going to dinner soon."

πŸ§”πŸΏβ€β™‚οΈ"Never!"

πŸ‘©πŸ½πŸ‘¨πŸΌπŸ§”πŸΏβ€β™‚οΈ"Bro, get out."

πŸ§”πŸΏβ€β™‚οΈ"No! Mekka will never give up the pool again!🀑"

πŸ‘©πŸ½πŸ‘¨πŸΌπŸ§”πŸΏβ€β™‚οΈ*Whispering* Why is he like this? Is this a US thing?

@mekkaokereke

It was quite a revelation when I learned why the USA has so few public swimming pools when compared to most European nations.

@juergen_hubert @mekkaokereke I don't know this - why don't they have swimming pools??

@Meznor @mekkaokereke

They do have swimming pools, but most of them are private.

Public swimming pools used to be more common in the USA. But after the end of Segregation, it was no longer legally possible to keep Black people out - so these were ever closed or handed over to "private clubs" that used other methods to keep Black people out.

In the USA, it's really racism all the way down.

@Meznor

I'm gonna take a wild guess, because it's the US, and say, racism.

Longer guess: Pool segregation.

Similar thing occurred in Australia re Indigenous Australians and municipal pools.

@juergen_hubert @mekkaokereke

@Meznor @juergen_hubert @mekkaokereke if we can't make it "whites only", we don't want it.

That's basically it.