♲ @CaseyExplosion@twitter.com: I'm always struck by how many people openly support trans people, it is broad, and generally speaking, far more prevalent than the obsessive hatreds that a relative few rich assholes try to push with endless fearmonger newspaper articles, desperate to manufacture a moral panic.
The current Evangelical Christian strain of reactionary conservatism that gave us Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence and a few US Supreme Court judges who recently overturned a slew of established legal rulings regarding abortion, Indian reservations, gun carry and environmental protection. They also are lobbying to curb voting rights when they aren't gunning straight for the election results at the state level.
The "destruction of the family unit" doesn't make much sense in the US other than for conservative reactionaries indeed but Soros-funded organizations operate mostly overseas where it might have a different meaning. Just something to keep in mind.
Thank you, this is pretty much what I feared but I had never seen before any criticism of him that didn't involve some sort of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. As a result I've only seen the people on the left I follow defending him against these revolting attacks which is fair, but it has been a distraction like you mentioned.
Maybe it's hindsight talk, but I would argue that going to the moon and back is a very different goal from "colonizing Mars". Landing on the moon is a one-shot thing compared to the longer time frame of Mars colonization. Also at the time it was spearheaded by the actual US government (in a weird political race against the USSR, granted), not by some billionaire playboy like now.
So I'm not sure it was warranted to go land on the moon and back, but it was an American public good, of which there isn't much anymore.
And Musk isn't spending a dime of his own on Mars, the reason he's publicly promoting this goal may also be because he stands to earn even more money from public subsidies than he currently does with his SpaceX venture.
It's a nice spacefaring goal on its own but it won't solve anything on Earth so I'd rather we sort out global warming first. If as a species we can't do that, we definitely shouldn't attempt to colonize Mars.
I’m aware of that, but that could be a front, right? Like Gates and his well-documented ideological power grabs under the guise of his philanthropic foundation. He got all sorts of unwarranted flak just for promoting the COVID vaccine but at the same time he was lobbying the White House not to force pharmaceutical companies to release the vaccine patents.
I mean, I don’t expect a billionaire to be anarchist, but at this point I’d take anyone not trying to undermine democracy, spread conservative ideology, control public health or be immortal.