“I bought a ZYBERTRUKKK because I care about the environment” excuses have never sounded more hollow.

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    Never forget the wealthy would happily fly an untested, unverified rocket directly into your house, killing you and your family generations over and then would go on TV and blame you for it.

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          I truly believe that bazinga billionaires and their sycophantic cultists generally have an unexamined belief, derived from their treats, that just landing on Mars is a “science victory” with a Hans Zimmer BWAAAAAAAAAM treatment and a credit roll that must be done for its own sake.

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        This is what I tell people. Like even the most climate change addled earth is immensely more habitable for humans than Mars is.

        If we solve our problems here… Ya know by ending capitalism… Then we can start doing truly badass humanity spanning achievements. Terra forming mars? Why not give it a go once we’ve got everyone fed and housed here. Surely it’d be a cool project. But as a solution? Entirely foolish.

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            Literally. The Sahara with 50 years of more climate change will be more habitable than 50 years of intensively terra forming the best parts of mars…

            And yet the unrealistic thing is simply stopping climate change.

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              I’m reading the book A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought this Through? Sheesh some things I haven’t considered.

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          Also if humanity actually does become interplanetary. What kind of precedent do we set with how we take care of our home planet? It creates a culture of hyperdisposability. Consoom all the resources on one planet, then hop off its carcass to the next.

          Then we won’t exactly be “interplanetary” then, just us on one planet we haven’t ruined yet. And I’m saying this while humoring Elons initial delusions.

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    talked to a couple who has one of the first year Teslas, the battery has lost a good portion of its range capacity and they are worried they won’t be able to resell it for much

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    It just makes it all the more puzzling why tf he wanted to be the Tesla guy at all? Shouldn’t someone like Elon Musk be disgusted at EVs because they don’t do emissions (and that’s uncool!)

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      I will take some bittersweet comfort if jokermala wins and continues Blue MAGA because I assume it means my-hero eats shit. Unless there’s just too much class solidarity and nothing happens and he keeps getting his subsidies.

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        Nothing will probably happen to him even if the Democrats do win elmofire

        I’m just so tired of this fucking idiot coasting from embarrassing failure to embarrassing failure without anything approaching real consequences while simultaneously just becoming more and more of a brazen Nazi

        On the other hand I can’t imagine how much more awful and insufferable he will be if Trump wins

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          I want to hope he eats shit, if only because he’s said so much against jokermala already.

          It’s her election to lose, though. trump-moist can clown all he likes and his cult remains steady in numbers.

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          Yea if dems win step one is gonna be giving him a billion dollars to “bridge the divide”

          He will continue to post accounts called “HitlerLover1488” asking if she’s actually fidel Castro with a boob job.

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    Another great example of how if somebodynis complaining about “ridiculous regualtions” it’s because they want to break those regulations.

    “Why the fuck do I need a permit from the fish people” - person who keeps shooting exploding rockets full of rocket fuel into the gulf of Mexico

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      Everyone’s all “law and order” until we come across one of the few remaining laws that apply to elitist white men. Suddenly it’s all “legality =/= morality”