I hate when I hear the key-jingling kayfabe from people, including on Hexbear, where they start talking about the unquestionable magic of reusable rockets or “the mission” or whatever to shut out any and all dissent against the space treats.

Someone got really pissed in the past when I called a preoccupation with rocketry no matter its expense or its mistaken resource priority as space treats. Fuck that. It’s space treats, especially when it’s performative bullshit to get people clapping like seals, like that car commercial in space a few years back.

Yes, there were fucking “the mission” excuses for that too, like “it was just a test payload, it could have been anything, why do you hate science?”