Kelvin Shadewing4.1 billion dollars to let a handful of people run a lap around the moon. While millions can't afford their bills? Why the fuck was everyone so excited about that? I'm glad I skipped watching it. This was not "our" victory. This was rich people putting on a show to keep us "united" (quiet).
Erik McClure@KelvinShadewing uh, i think the US military budget of $1.5 TRILLION might be a better place to redirect funds from instead of NASA's paltry $20 billion budget that helps fund enormous amounts of scientific progress and engineering
@cloudhop You're not wrong. I'm just mad about the spectacle and the "we all did this" aspect of it.
@KelvinShadewing I really think what you are really seeing is people desperate to have any shred of hopefulness to hang on to.
People are very tired of fighting with phones and computers trying to fight for their attention and money all the time. They want something simple like "we can go to the moon" to cheer for again instead of being told that we burned another $2.5 trillion dollars researching AI that will take everyone's jobs and destroy the economy.
I think, maybe, we can cut them a little slack just this once.
@cloudhop I'm one of those people. I don't want to be told to wait for the moon. I want to be able to afford groceries again.
@KelvinShadewing I am very confident that us going to the moon and being able to afford groceries are perpendicular things. They are completely unrelated. Anyone saying they are related is lying to you. We could just make UBI happen if we wanted to, and we could also go to the moon. The moon is not making groceries cost more or preventing us from solving the grocery price problem.
@cloudhop That's not what I mean. I mean that they're using spectacle to keep people from demanding better. I know we could afford both. I'm mad that when they picked one, they picked the one that mainly helps themselves.
@KelvinShadewing Oh yes, the US government using spectacle as a distraction is very frustrating, I still want us to go to the moon tho