There are some voices of reason in the thread saying that NASA money is a drop in the bucket compared to war spending, but there’s a whole lot of support for space exploration by China (and Russia), because of course it’s only bad when “USian”

https://hexbear.net/post/8170388

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    18 days ago

    I caught up with the launch stream over the weekend, and was quite excited until they went into full USA nationalistic propaganda mode and mentioned how the US become the best democracy on earth and freedom blah blah blah. Completetly ruined it.

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      18 days ago

      until they

      Yeah I get why that sucks. I didn’t see it but I’m assuming “they” was a bunch of govt suits instead of NASA scientists?

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      18 days ago

      I mean, it’s an official govt stream for an official govt project. I’d be surprised if they didn’t do that

      Sad part is it was probably similar to what was said during Apollo but the national context changed quite a bit since then