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    I am sure all of them have the skills set and accounts to spend all day for this…

    Headline is hyperbolic

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    What happened to indigenous people and women? I swear I saw one just an hour ago so it seems like they still exist. Maybe not?

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      That was a cat. You saw a cat an hour ago. Indigenous people and women have never existed. It’s been straight white men since Adam and Steve. Wait…

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    Okay, okay, yeah is it bad? Yeah it’s bad but listen up libs - Remember when Harris was being reported as focusing on the middle class during her four month campaign? Huh? Yeah. That’s why this is happening. And we were right to not fight against this fascist horror with the one thing that would have mattered, our vote. She should have paid more attention to people who have it bad.

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        One would think. And yet she was pilloried for focusing on the economics of the middle class.

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      Any post that starts with “listen up libs” immediately makes me ignore the rest of its contents. Not interested in your MAGA and/or tankie bullshit.

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        Since Herr Trumpf got elected for his second term, the line between MAGA and Tankie has been getting preeeeeetty thin. Seen a lot of “masks off” comments from the folk at .ml…

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        obviously you are a old and don’t understand that liberals are the absolute worst thing in the world next to conservatives. Us kids are down with the leftism now and any Democratic person is a horrible traitor to society which is why we let trump win. You need to read the manga versions of Das Kapital to really get it.

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      Electoralism is bullshit to begin with. Trump shouldn’t have been able to do what he’s doing at all. An actual developed society shouldn’t be susceptible to fascist takeover, because fascists should be unacceptable in government. And the president shouldn’t be able to do anything they want with nothing but good faith holding them back. The American government fundamentally failed a long time ago. If Harris had won it wouldn’t have been Trump, but she was far from a progressive and would not have changed the government in an attempt to preserve it against future fascist uprising.

      Not to mention her commitment to Israel. Not to mention she was part of the Biden administration, and had a direct involvement in the American government’s support for the Palestinian genocide.

      Yes, it would’ve been better in many ways if she had won. But the choice never should’ve been between a neoliberal conservative and a fascist. America was broken under Biden, too. Not the way it is, nor the way it will be as Trump’s kingdom rises. But it’s far more nuanced than just “if she had won everything would be swell”. And it’s weird to point out non-voters as the problem, instead of like. The past 5 decades of American politics. The many many many people who did nothing to prevent this from happening over 50 years. The democratic party itself failed to meaningfully respond to his first presidency.

      Yes if the people who had stayed home had instead voted, and voted for Harris specifically, she would be president and the outcome would be better for everyone. Undoubtedly. Like Weimar Germany though the government was already fundamentally broken and susceptible to the rise of fascism. To simply and immediately put blame on the voters ignores the actual reasons that situation even came about to begin with.

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    I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?

    because it’s not and never was about that and by the time everyone else realises it will be too late to stop it without great effort

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      You are pissed at another kid, so you find a dog turd near the playground and you throw it his way.

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      I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?

      The best way to understand DOGE is to be aware of what it really means: Department of Government Enshitification. The entire point of it is to generally degrade the quality of government.

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    Their cowardice is palpable. If only NASA could run experiments so that we could understand how the concept of fear-based self preservation eliminates any semblance of courage when faced with even the smallest threat to their ill-defined paradigm of manhood.

    In a parallel universe where we have a functioning federal government, I’d imagine something like this would be worthy of a grant or two.

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      If only NASA could run experiments so that we could understand how the concept of fear-based self preservation eliminates any semblance of courage when faced with even the smallest threat to their ill-defined paradigm of manhood.

      You’re significantly underestimating how many Chud engineers NASA employs. The agency that was founded by Nazis refugees has always had a shit history on race politics, cinema hagiographies produced decades later notwithstanding.

      In a parallel universe where we have a functioning federal government

      One of the biggest jokes of the US depiction of the Space Race was how many times we got our asses drubbed by Russians with less money, manpower, and educational resources, simply because our administration was so cartoonishly incompetent. We have an obscenely wealthy federal government that can afford to fuck up on the scale of trillions of dollars and still come out ahead.

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        Isn’t there an entire movie about racism in NASA that’s basically just a feel good story for white people?

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          Hidden Figures. More or less “The Help” for NASA dweebs.

          It concedes that black women were instrumental in developing and executing a successful space race, but gets really cagey around questions like “Why did NASA only have a White Men’s Restroom to begin with?”, “What caused us to omit people like this in films like Apollo 13 or The Right Stuff?”, and “How come the women who pioneered implementation of Fortran at NASA weren’t able to pivot into senior administrative roles, private contracting firms, or academic positions like their male peers?”

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    ITT: People who doesn’t read the article. These science institutions shouldn’t be used for fucking politics.

    I wonder if something from the list published in this article has any relation to science or space. Yeah sure, let’s go with “DEI and other Inclusivity programs are NECESSARY for space survival”. I wonder what’s the objective of NASA.

    Lol don’t worry, this Astronaut knows pronouns. /s

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      These science institutions shouldn’t be used for fucking politics.

      You’d think, huh? Daamn, that’s crazy