Comment on On Venus.

Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Rhoeri@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because tankies don’t like nuance.

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  • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Trust a piefed user to bring up tankies for absolutely no reason. Rent free

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    • Rhoeri@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The irony of you whining about this on a post that is unnecessarily shitting on America’s contributions to science is fucking hilarious dude!

      Keep that rage burning, comrade. They’ll have to take notice eventually, right?

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      • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Tankie derangement syndrome, seeing tankies where there are none

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    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      for no reason

      🤔

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I honestly cannot tell if this is satire, but if it is A+ job

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• kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah one of my favorite little stories / poems is something I read on Tumblr years ago. It’s currently attributed to Swan Jolras:

  we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

  because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

  and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us— we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

  and then

  we built robots?

  and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

  and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more! , maybe we’ll be gone

  but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

  the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

  and they told us to tell you hello.

  The astronauts of today from various nations literally live and work together in shared space stations, less concerned with who’s tribe is better and more concerned with, you know, space, which is vast and doesn’t give a shit about our petty differences

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This has some tankie level vibes. It’s referencing the Cold War era. Though I seem to remember as a kid in the 80s learning about Russia’s Venus crafts. This is like reverse propaganda.

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• MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because we wouldn’t have “For All Mankind” without that sweet sweet political tension

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m sorry, I don’t know what you’re referencing :(

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    • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      TV series on Apple where Soviets land on the Moon first and a whole new timeline of events is explored. It’s really good.

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Shame it’s on apple, but neat! Thanks for telling me.

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Exactly. And let’s be real, both countries are absolute shit.

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  • trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh yes. The world would be much better if they could self destroy or destroy each other while leaving everybody else to their own problems, like Switzerland is famous for.

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