Charlie Stross15h ago

RE: https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/116337081981568251

Same for me, too. And Elon Musk took all the joy out of his big rocket launch (and occasional explosion) livestreams when he unmasked as full nazi in public. And the Russian space program? Dead to me.

We should just get back in the sea. Our species is done.

Show threadFlittermouse 🎸🥁🎹🏳️‍⚧️🐩11h ago

@cstross
Not giving up yet. We knew who Wernher von Braun was when he was scooped up from working on V2 to developing the technology for the Americans and when he moved to NASA. A decorated major in the SS.

Okay, so he may not have been volubly in favour of "racial purity" and other nonsense. He did, however, employ Jewish slave labour to develop a weapon he knew was likely to be used to kill thousands of civilians (it did, though the human cost was borne mostly by those Jews. @cstross

Show threadJaime Robertson
@Flittermouse @cstross
A Rabbi I used to know once told about his grandfather’s deli in Huntsville Ala., and how as an infant he was bounced on the knee of a frequent customer named Werhner von Braun.
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